http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-05-20T16:50:30-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/fired_former_female_partner_settles_ropes_gray_age_and_gender_discriminatio/ A fired female intellectual property partner has settled her federal employment discrimination suit against Ropes & Gray on undisclosed terms. Patricia Martone, who was 63 when she was fired by the firm in 2010, lost out on lucrative retirement benefits to which she would have been entitled at age 65… Careers, Women in the Law, Labor & Employment, Law Firms, Large Firm, Partners, Trials & Litigation, Verdicts & Settlements, 2nd Circuit Court, States, New York Fri, 17 May 2013 13:20:34 -0500 44236.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/harvard_law_student_hopes_to_buy_a_segway_after_his_1m_survivor_win/ A Harvard law student who wrote a prizewinning class paper about the show Survivor became a contestant and won $1 million in the Sunday finale of Survivor: Caramoan. CBS Miami describes winner John Cochran as “skinny, pale, non-threatening,” but says he managed to win physical challenges and… ABA Journal Production, Weekly Newsletter Stories, Careers, Law Students, Personal Lives Thu, 16 May 2013 09:53:25 -0500 44214.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/love_of_classics_led_to_second_career_for_retired_dewey_partner/ When Jack Kaufmann retired from law practice in 2002, his firm was known as Dewey Ballantine. Today Kaufmann is 71 years old and back at work, but his employer is the elite Hewitt School in Manhattan, the New York Times reports. Kaufmann took college classes after… Careers, Law Firms, Partners Thu, 16 May 2013 06:35:00 -0500 44199.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/law_schools_should_mostly_ditch_c_grades_law_prof_argues/ University of Arkansas at Little Rock law professor Joshua Silverstein doesn’t like C grades. In fact, he thinks they should be substantially eliminated at law schools, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog (sub. req.) reports. In a paper set for publication in the University… ABA Journal Production, Weekly Newsletter Stories, Careers, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:35 -0500 44168.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/few_minorities_and_women_argued_supreme_court_cases_this_term/ Debo Adegbile was the only African American lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court this term. The Associated Press took a look at the diversity of the lawyers in oral arguments since October and concluded the Supreme Court is more diverse than the lawyers… Appellate Practice, Careers, U.S. Supreme Court Tue, 14 May 2013 08:27:34 -0500 44164.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyers_suit_claims_law_firm_wrongly_fired_her_then_misappropriated_her_lik/ A former lawyer with a construction law firm based in Philadelphia has filed a lawsuit accusing her one-time employer of improperly firing her and then misappropriating her likeness by keeping her photo on its website. The suit by Melissa Angeline also accuses law firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman… Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Careers, Labor & Employment, Tort Law, Trials & Litigation, States, Pennsylvania Mon, 13 May 2013 08:15:02 -0500 44143.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/legalrebels/article/how_this_duo_is_trying_to_reinvent_law_school/ Editor's note: Last week Paul Lippe noted several programs shaking up the traditional legal ed model. Here, two professors share details about one of those programs. Greetings from ReInvent Law, our law laboratory devoted to technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Michigan State University… Business of Law, Careers, Law Schools, Law Students, Legal Rebels, The New Normal Thu, 09 May 2013 08:30:03 -0500 43988.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/advice_for_those_getting_axed_stay_calm_shut_up_and_listen/ The standard advice applies for those who are being fired: Don’t burn your bridges, because a former employer may still be able to help you land a new job. The Careerist has that admonition along with other steps that should be taken by those getting fired. The first… Careers Thu, 09 May 2013 06:15:00 -0500 44092.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/which_law_schools_pay_tenured_profs_the_most_and_least_survey_has_68_median/ If you are a tenured law professor, the University of California at Hastings may be a good place to teach. UC Hastings paid its tenured law profs the highest reported median salary among 68 schools responding to a survey by the Society of American Law Teachers. UC Hastings paid a… Careers, Lawyer Pay, Law Professors, Law Schools Thu, 09 May 2013 05:39:46 -0500 44090.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/senior_counsel_went_from_law_firm_switchboard_operator_to_cravaths_first/ Corrected: Christine Beshar, a senior counsel at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, achieved several firsts in her lifetime. She read the law as Abraham Lincoln did, passing the New York State bar exam without going to law school. She became the first female partner at a Wall Street law firm in… Careers, Women in the Law Wed, 08 May 2013 06:26:24 -0500 44073.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/overachieving_lawyer_sees_himself_in_empirical_study/ Justice Department lawyer Adam Chandler has an impressive resume. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2011, clerked for a federal appeals judge, and wrote articles for SCOTUSblog and Slate. At Justice, Chandler works in the Antitrust Division's appellate… Careers Wed, 08 May 2013 06:10:22 -0500 44070.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/will_litigation_financing_lead_to_reversal_of_epic_proportions_in_hard-hit/ Will a white knight ride in to save the downtrodden legal profession? Brooklyn Law School tax law professor Bradley Borden sees a possible rescuer: third-party litigation financing. Writing at the Huffington Post, Borden says that the growth of the funding mechanism “may be the… Business of Law, Law Practice Management, Careers, Law Firms Tue, 07 May 2013 05:45:21 -0500 44042.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_for_gun_makers_takes_nra_helm_calls_members_fighters_for_freedom_in_/ An Alabama lawyer who represents gun makers and has a knack for controversial rhetoric will take the helm Monday as president of the National Rifle Association, following the organization's three-day annual convention in Houston. Described as a "hard line culture warrior" by USA Today, attorney Careers, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Legislation & Lobbying, States, Alabama Mon, 06 May 2013 11:40:53 -0500 44044.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/finally_some_good_news_for_the_profession_legal-sector_jobs_reach_a_four-ye/ Jobs in the legal sector are at their highest level in four years, after two months of gains. The legal sector added 2,100 jobs in April and 3,500 jobs in March, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The March figures are revised upwards from Careers, Law Firms Mon, 06 May 2013 10:03:41 -0500 44043.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/former_law_dean_is_now_a_prison_chaplain_upcoming_book_chronicles_his_work/ A former law dean is now pursuing a higher calling. David Link, who served for 24 years as dean of Notre Dame Law School, is a “priest with a passion for prison ministry,” the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reports. Link was ordained… Careers, Law Schools Fri, 03 May 2013 06:15:50 -0500 44017.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/is_the_legal_job_market_really_that_lousy_convention_wisdom_ignores_the_lon/ Employment statistics on jobs held by law grads nine months after graduation don’t tell the whole story, according to an associate dean and professor at Widener Law School. D. Benjamin Barros, associate dean for faculty research and development at Widener, studied the longer-term employment picture for… Careers, Law Schools, Law Students Thu, 02 May 2013 05:34:22 -0500 43992.abajournal.com