http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-05-23T04:37:55-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/are_you_still_in_touch_with_any_of_your_law_school_professors/ It's graduation season, so you might find yourself attending one soon–or graduating yourself! So this week, we'd like to ask you: Are you still in touch with any of your law school professors? If so, have they continued to be of help to you as you advanced in your law… ABA Journal, Question of the Week, Careers, Law Professors, Law Students Wed, 22 May 2013 13:20:12 -0500 44307.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/around_the_blawgosphere_avvo_linkedin/ Last month, Arizona criminal defense attorney Matt Brown noted at Tempe Criminal Defense that he was taking a break from blogging to go on a 700-plus-mile hike. But he checked into the office periodically. "At some point after climbing onto the Colorado Plateau, however, the volume… ABA Journal, @BlawgWhisperer, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Marketing & Consulting, Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, Immigration Law, Trials & Litigation, 6th Circuit Court Fri, 17 May 2013 08:30:27 -0500 44228.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bvideo_telepathy_and_prescience_are_what_gcs_look_for_from_firms/ Trevor Faure, Global Leader of Legal Services for Ernst & Young, tells Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia that general counsels at large corporations are looking for four things from the law firms which represent them: professional telepathy, professional prescience, exceptional client service and cost efficiency.… ABA Journal, Business of Law (Video), ABA Journal Production, Weekly Newsletter Stories, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Marketing & Consulting Thu, 16 May 2013 12:20:56 -0500 44218.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/door_to_door_how_long_is_your_commute/ The League of American Bicyclists has declared that this week is National Bike to Work Week—and Friday, May 17, is National Bike to Work Day. It's feasible for some of us to bike to work, and for some of us, bicycling may even be the… ABA Journal, Question of the Week, Careers, Work/Life Balance Wed, 15 May 2013 12:45:34 -0500 44172.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/around_the_blawgosphere_granat_slu_law_school_tumblr/ Legal services delivery entrepreneur Richard Granat wrote at eLawyering Blog about the efforts of the ABA's eLawyering Task Force to identify the top law schools currently teaching legal practice technology. "We include within this category courses that train law students in document automation,… ABA Journal, @BlawgWhisperer, Bar Associations, ABA, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Technology, Careers, Criminal Justice, Prosecutors, Public Defenders, Law Schools, Law Students Fri, 10 May 2013 08:30:01 -0500 44050.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bvideo_could_this_law_school_ranking_unseat_us_news/ Elie Mystal, editor at Above the Law, tells Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia that his blog's new law school rankings sought to list the top 50 American law schools by relying on an "outcome-based" methodology. Mystal says that focusing on the costs and rewards of… ABA Journal, Business of Law (Video), Business of Law, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students Thu, 09 May 2013 11:00:50 -0500 44106.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/from_the_time_you_get_into_your_office_how_long_does_it_take_before_you_get/ It's a situation familiar to many: Once you've sampled the baked goods brought in by a co-worker, jumped into a conversation with some other co-workers, sorted through dozens of worthless emails and perhaps (bless your heart) taken your first look of the day through ABAJournal.com, you look at the clock… ABA Journal, Question of the Week Wed, 08 May 2013 11:42:13 -0500 44081.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/podcast_monthly_episode_38/ Podcast transcript: Stephanie Ward: Associates, are you swamped doing thankless tasks on a big piece of work, and think you have zero opportunities for business development? Clinton Gary: Don’t forget about you’re in the trenches with people who probably be GCs of that organization in the next several years. Stephanie… ABA Journal, ABA Journal Podcast, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Marketing & Consulting, Careers, Law Firms, Associates Mon, 06 May 2013 08:30:08 -0500 44034.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/alternative_fees_posner_privacy_football_civil_jury_trials/ Jean P. O'Grady, a knowledge strategist at DLA Piper took on this year's Alternative Fee Arrangements at Legal Departments and Law Firms report at Dewey B. Strategic. And she noticed some other things on top of… ABA Journal, @BlawgWhisperer, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Careers, Constitutional Law, Judiciary, Privacy Law, Trials & Litigation Fri, 03 May 2013 08:30:48 -0500 44022.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bvideo_with_radical_changes_law_firms_can_beat_recession_says_susskind/ Just as legal process outsourcers are stealing business from law firms today by doing it cheaper, they too will face pressure in the coming years from technologies that can do the the job even cheaper than they, law firm consultant Richard Susskind tells Bloomberg… ABA Journal, Business of Law (Video), Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Technology, Outsourcing, Law Firms Thu, 02 May 2013 10:20:45 -0500 44011.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/how_much_caffeine_do_you_need_to_get_through_a_workday/ Regular NPR listeners probably know that last week was Coffee Week, and that a number of coffee-related stories were featured on Morning Edition and NPR blog The Salt. One blog post from last week explored whether caffeine makes us better workers.… ABA Journal, Question of the Week Wed, 01 May 2013 13:48:06 -0500 43991.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/for_the_word_lovers_a_look_at_linguistic_phenomena/ ABA Journal, Bryan Garner on Words, ABA Journal Production, Weekly Newsletter Stories, Legal Writing, Bryan Garner on Words Wed, 01 May 2013 03:00:06 -0500 43796.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/tech_geeks_gather_to_reinvent_the_law/ ABA Journal, Law Scribbler, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Marketing & Consulting, Legal Technology, Business of Law Wed, 01 May 2013 02:40:06 -0500 43753.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/lawyers_say_they_like_storing_data_online/ ABA Journal, Law By the Numb#rs, Bar Associations, ABA, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Technology, Business of Law Wed, 01 May 2013 02:20:06 -0500 43756.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/slavery_continues_to_haunt_the_modern_world_but_efforts_to_eradicate_it/ Maria watched the expensive car roll into her small town in Honduras. Two well-dressed men stepped out of the vehicle. They walked toward Maria, 15, and two friends who were with her. The men said they were recruiting people to work in a textile factory in the United States. It… ABA Journal Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:58:47 -0500 43834.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bvideo_up_to_20_of_amlaw_200_badly_weakened/ A substantial percentage of the nation's largest law firms enter the sixth year of the Great Recession "badly weakened," and more firms are expected to fail, according to law firm consultant Kent Zimmermann of the Zeughauser Group. Their problems boil down to "too many… ABA Journal, Business of Law (Video), Business of Law, Law Firms, Large Firm Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:27:10 -0500 43913.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/is_the_socratic_method_and_lecture-based_classes_the_best_way_to_teach/ Should law school classes be more visual? This week, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog (sub. req.) took note of an upcoming essay for the Maine Law Review by Suffolk University Law School professor Shailini Jandial George that asserts that the law… ABA Journal, Question of the Week Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:40:50 -0500 43896.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/scotusblog_med_express_iron_tech_lawyer_competition_better_call_saul/ Last month, SCOTUSblog won a Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media–the first blog to ever do so. On Thursday, it announced that it had at long last, the Senate Press Gallery has granted its reporter Lyle Denniston a press credential. "The Supreme Court’s… ABA Journal, @BlawgWhisperer, Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Legal Marketing & Consulting, Legal Technology, Careers, Women in the Law, Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Law Schools, Law Students, Media & Communications Law Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:29:59 -0500 43733.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bvideo_how_companies_use_social_media_to_hire_law_firms/ A new survey from public relations firm Greentarget finds that in-house counsel are frequently using LinkedIn and lawyer blogs to determine who they will hire, John Corey, founding partner at Greentarget, tells Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia. But you won't find those in-house lawyers in… ABA Journal, Business of Law (Video), Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Careers, In-house Counsel, Law Firms Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:53:36 -0500 43807.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/are_you_living_and_working_in_your_dream_city_if_not_where_do_you_want_to/ This week, in a profile of DLA Piper co-CEO J. Terence O’Malley, the powerful partner shared why he wanted to end up in San Diego. “At Notre Dame, I kept track on the wall by my bunk of the consecutive days I had… ABA Journal, Question of the Week Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:15:29 -0500 43781.abajournal.com