Vanessa Blum
Legal Times
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Hold the Phone! The Supreme Court Is in (Virtual) Session
Wilmer Hale partner David Bowker whose case was one of the first to proceed by telephone gives a behind-the-scenes account of preparing for and delivering arguments in the new environment. → Read More
'Take Heart. Be Strong': David Lat On How COVID-19 Has Changed His Life and the Legal Profession
The Above the Law founder-turned-legal recruiter talks about his brush with death and what he's learned from the ordeal. → Read More
Zoom GC Aparna Bawa Opens Up About Big Gains and Some Growing Pains
Bawa who joined Zoom in 2018 shares what it’s like at the company that’s gone from business tool to virtual lifeline and come under scrutiny for security lapses. → Read More
For Big Law, Is COVID-19 The Great Recession All Over Again?
Keith Wetmore former chairman at Morrison & Foerster and Bill Brandt who has helped handle workouts and restructurings for nearly 40 law firms had big roles during the 2008 recession. Here's their perspective on the major challenges law firms are facing now. → Read More
How We’re Surviving as a Shut-In Workforce: ‘Know Where Your Mute Button Is’ and Be Patient
As the country combats the COVID-19 crisis lawyers are settling into a new work reality. We checked in to see how they’re coping. → Read More
Pressure’s On: Big Law Targeted by Student Activists
In this episode we explore law student activism and how future attorneys attending law schools at Harvard Yale New York University and elsewhere are using their leverage to protest policies and practices. → Read More
Cancellations, Crisis Planning and Clorox: COVID-19 Strikes Legal Community
Law.com journalists—Dylan Jackson Heather Nevitt Jack Newsham and Karen Sloan—report on how this rapidly changing situation is upending operations at law firms law schools and legal departments. → Read More
Once Optimistic, Addicted in the End: What We Can Learn from One Partner's Demise
Eilene Zimmerman a journalist and the ex-wife of a Wilson Sonsini partner who died of a drug overdose about five years ago talks to Gina Passarella editor-in-chief of Law.com affiliate The American Lawyer about what Zimmerman uncovered regarding the culture inside Big Law and law schools in researching her new book Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition Addiction and Tragedy. → Read More
Explain It to Me Like I'm an 8-Year-Old, Counselor!
Is being a lawyer hard? What happens if a bad client wants to hire you? Why do lawyers keep secrets? On this episode of Legal Speak, we let kids ask the questions. → Read More
'I Knew What Life Was Like': How This Managing Partner Thrived Amid the Whiteness of Big Law
In this episode The Careerist Vivia Chen talks with Squire Patton Boggs managing partner Frederick Nance about the progress—and lack of it—in opportunities for African American lawyers in Big Law. → Read More
Tools, Tips and Biggest Bummers: What Lawyers Really Think About the State of Legal Tech
In-house and law firm leaders tell us what tools make their lives easier what technologies are over-hyped and what they’re doing to transform the organizations they work for. → Read More
Beyond Borders: What Lawyers Need to Know About the Global Legal Market
In conjunction with the launch of our new website Law.com International Lisa Shuchman senior editor of the site takes us around the world to explain what the implications of political unrest in Hong Kong the Coronavirus Brexit the growth of class actions in Australia and much more mean for Big Law and beyond. → Read More
‘Big Law Loves Litigation Financing’: Legalist’s GC Breaks It Down
Third-party funding is a recipe for Big Law attorneys to increase their book of business and make clients happy says Legalist GC Curtis Smolar a former Fox Rothschild partner. → Read More
Tear Down the Window-Dressing: Big Law Policies That Actually Support Women
A piling on of slights and inequities over time drives women from law firms a study by ALM and the ABA shows and men and women vastly differ in how they view the success of firms' policies to address the problem. → Read More
All Things Re-Considered: Hot Legal Topics in 2019
We've selected some of our standout episodes from the last year which covered mental health Big Law defections in-house frustrations and cannabis. Take a listen. → Read More
OK, Boomer. Here's What You Need To Know About Legal Tech Trends
Time waits for no one. So in this episode we're exploring the changes in legal tech that developed this year and what we can expect in 2020. → Read More
All the President's Judges: The Impact of Trump's Record-Setting Appointments
The administration has filled judicial slots with bulldozer efficiency. Here's what it all means. → Read More
Failures and Flameouts: Why Law Firms Collapse
What are the common threads in Big Law demises and how can other firms avoid making the same fatal moves? → Read More
This Big-Law Veteran Hit Rock Bottom. Here’s How She Got Sober.
Lisa Smith, who started her path to recovery 15 years ago, says there's a myth about the so-called high-functioning alcoholic. → Read More
Boots to Suits: The Path from JAG Corps to Big Law and Beyond
The challenge for military lawyers who shift gears into civilian practice is that legal employers don’t necessarily understand how their prior experience translates to civilian law. → Read More