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Fellowships For Female Lawyers Returning To Work Expands To In-House

The OnRamp Fellowship, a two-year-old program for women returning to the legal arena after taking time off, is expanding to […]

Can Judges’ “Inherent Power” Be Used To Punish Lawyers?

A federal judge in Texas this week took extraordinary actions against Justice Department lawyers he felt purposefully misled him, potentially […]

What Can A Lawyer Say To The Press?

Several media groups, the ACLU of Ohio and the Ohio chapter of the National Lawyers Guild are among those filing […]

Metadata Can Be A Treasure Trove In Litigation

The amount and detail of information contained in metadata (data about data embedded in files) is staggering, and it can […]

A Cybersecurity Checklist

This list of seven best practices to achieve “cyber resilience” is based on Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report. Some […]

One BigLaw Firm Embraces Gender-Neutral Parental Leave

Chicago-based Winston & Strawn LLP has decided to offer 20 weeks of paid parental leave for associates and of counsel […]

Law Firm Compensation That Rewards Collaboration

There are at least two good reasons to encourage collaboration among law firm lawyers: It increases the total amount of […]

Lawyer Sues “Lazy and Incompetent Young Adults” Who Criticized His Firm

After numerous scathing comments about his law firm appeared on an online forum. a California trial attorney filed a defamation […]

One Law School’s Novel Strategy: Shrink

Faced with decreasing numbers of student applications, the University of Minnesota Law School, one the top two dozen in the […]

Former Dewey Leader Fires Lawyers to Represent Himself

With a retrial looming in the fraud case against two former leaders of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, one of the […]

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