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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
The Above the Law founder-turned-legal recruiter talks about his brush with death and what he's learned from the ordeal. → Read More
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
The court also authorized Chief Judge Janet DiFiore to explore the the possibility of permitting law graduates waiting to take the bar examination or waiting for test results to practice under the supervision of licensed attorneys. → Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This week we look at the albatross hanging around the necks of so many lawyers: student loan debt. → Read More
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
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
Reductions to the sticker price of legal services—whether taken off at the outset of an engagement or as write-downs when it comes time to collect the bill—end up costing Am Law 100 firms some $4.4 billion per year. → Read More
Here's the news you need to start your day. → Read More
Law.com reporter Caroline Spiezio talks to former in-house leaders at top companies who pull no punches in saying what law firms need to do for their clients. → Read More
While more than $25000 a year in tuition and fees still might seem like a lot of money to most people it’s a relative steal when weighed against the almighty U.S. News & World Report rankings. → Read More