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Recruiting firm Legal Innovators announced on Thursday a new program that aims to increase diversity among junior legal talent by offering attorneys time to work both at a law firm and as in-house counsel.
Public relations professionals may be vital to managing a client’s reputation during litigation, but can also create sticky issues for lawyers, who worry working too closely with consultants could waive attorney-client privilege and reveal litigation strategy to the other side during discovery.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump, a major escalation in the investigation of the insurrection.
Employment and labor law firm Littler Mendelson PC has named a Denver shareholder as the firm's senior director of onboarding and integration.
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has donated one floor of its unused office space in Baltimore to an incubator for local small businesses, the firm has announced.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's request to reinstate special master review of classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP first implemented a program in 2016 aimed at training junior female attorneys to become the firm's future leaders. The program has since expanded to include attorneys of color, and has begun to pay off with program graduates rising through the firm's ranks.
Justice Neil Gorsuch made no secret of his distaste for the dormant commerce clause during Tuesday's arguments in a case over a California animal welfare ballot initiative, but will his attacks on the constitutional doctrine sway his colleagues enough to let states enact broad commercial regulations?
The U.S. Supreme Court got bogged down Wednesday in the nuances of how federal regulations define salaries, with an apparent divide emerging during oral arguments between justices focused on a commonsense reading of salary pay and those focused on a more narrow approach — or even on dismissing the regulations entirely.
Legal job postings declined in September, according to legal industry data provider Leopard Solutions, the latest sign that the red-hot job market may be cooling as law firms are getting more strategic in hiring amid economic uncertainty and a slowdown in demand for legal services.
Rimon PC has created a new role of firm managing partner and named a nine-year veteran of the firm to take that role.
Most in-house counsel said they aren't satisfied in their current positions because they're burned out and dealing with insufficient resources, and many plan to look for new roles outside their companies in the months ahead, according to a report out Wednesday.
Anthony Johnstone, a law professor nominated to the Ninth Circuit, breezed through a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, facing limited questions because most senators were absent since the hearing took place while the Senate was out of session.
ArentFox Schiff LLP has hired a tax lawyer in Washington, D.C., who spent almost eight years working in the space at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, the firm has announced.
E-discovery software platform Everlaw said Wednesday that it has added a chief people officer, promoted its general counsel and opened two new offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., as its total staff reaches more than 500 employees.
The U.S. government has agreed to pay $125 million to end a class action from a group of nonprofits that allege the judiciary charges users excessive fees to run the Public Access to Electronic Court Records system, the class said in D.C. federal court Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice can argue a California woman shouldn't be able to use Chapter 7 bankruptcy to shield herself from damages after a trial found her and her husband liable for selling a flawed home remodeling project, the U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday.
Large U.S. companies are steadily moving toward more transparency in political spending as 385 of the S&P; 500 companies have shown some control and transparency over such spending, according to a report released Tuesday. The number was a record high.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled an interest in striking down a rule adopted by two federal appellate courts that says the statute of limitation for state prisoners to request DNA testing in federal court begins running when a state court denies testing, regardless of any appeal.
Armstrong Teasdale LLP has elevated one of its executives to be senior director for talent development to help guide the BigLaw firm's attorney growth over the past year, the firm said Tuesday.
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed concerns about the potential for states to weaponize their lawmaking against other states as they weighed whether to revive pork producers' challenge to a California animal care law that allegedly violates the Constitution by drastically increasing costs for out-of-state farmers.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has hired a former top sustainability official from the University of Cambridge to offer sustainability and environmental advice to the firm's clients, Freshfields announced Tuesday.
Reed Smith LLP has added as its chief of legal operations a legal industry executive who previously served in a similar role for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
Latham & Watkins LLP has expanded its intellectual property litigation practice with the arrival of a former Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP partner who has extensive experience handling complex patent matters in federal court and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the International Trade Commission.
The pace of law firm lateral recruitment slowed in the third quarter after a busy first half of the year, with firms pulling back across multiple practice areas, including corporate and litigation, according to numbers provided by legal data company Firm Prospects LLC.
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The MarkLaw firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
Allison Coffin at Akin Gump discusses how summer associates going back to school can continue to develop real-world lawyering skills by leveraging the numerous law school resources that support professional development both inside and outside the classroom.
In uncertain and challenging times, law firm leaders can build and sustain culture by focusing attention on mission, values and leadership development, and applying a growth mindset across their firms, says Scott Westfahl at Harvard Law.
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time; Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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CLE Accreditation Should Be Tied To Learning OutcomesGiven the substantial time and money lawyers put toward mandatory continuing legal education, CLE regulators and providers should be held to accreditation standards that assess learning outcomes, similar to those imposed on law schools and continuing medical education providers, says Rima Sirota at Georgetown Law.
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
Robert Dubose at Alexander Dubose describes several categories of visuals attorneys can use to make written arguments easier to understand or more persuasive, and provides tips for lawyers unused to working with anything but text.