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When handling legal matters, lawyers often have to envision the worst possible outcomes for their clients and work to protect against them.
Jan 20, 2022 10:24 AM CST
Darryl Wilson, an in-house attorney at Tyson Foods in Springdale, Arkansas, has used cooking as a form of therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. He launched his own Instagram account, where he regularly posts photos of his dishes, and taught two virtual cooking classes to members of the ABA Young Lawyers Division. “We always have to find things that make us happy and that are fulfilling or rewarding to us,” he says. “Mine just happens to be cooking.”
Jan 20, 2022 9:22 AM CST
A London barrister has sued Ropes & Gray for an alleged “unrelenting” workload that left her unable to continue with her career.
Jan 19, 2022 9:30 AM CST
It’s no secret that investors love predictability and loathe uncertainty. It’s why C-suite professionals strive to increase the former and minimize the latter. And with ever-expanding pools of data and analytics at their disposal, tech-savvy executive teams can now forecast and manage the future better than ever. But analytics and the human imagination are limited.
Jan 19, 2022 8:39 AM CST
From technology behemoths buying up dynamic startups to market-leading utility companies joining forces, there is a clear trend of market consolidation in the U.S. In the quest to curb the monopolization of industries, President Joe Biden
signed an executive order in July promoting competition in the economy—which signals an upcoming increase in antitrust investigations for the legal industry.
Jan 18, 2022 9:20 AM CST
Judge allegedly failed to report marriage-fee income
New Orleans Second City Court Judge Ernestine “Teena” Anderson-Trahan has been charged with filing false tax returns. The indictment has alleged that Anderson-Trahan…
Jan 14, 2022 3:29 PM CST
Being a lawyer is a better job than being a speech-language pathologist but not quite as good as being a statistician.
Jan 12, 2022 1:08 PM CST
Law firms “are spending huge amounts of money and putting their profits at increasing risk” as they battle to hold on to their associates, according to a report released Tuesday.
Jan 11, 2022 11:49 AM CST
Lani Guinier, the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School and a Clinton administration nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, died Friday. She was 71.
Jan 10, 2022 9:30 AM CST
Judge Judy Sheindlin has established an annual program that will grant 10 women full-tuition scholarships to New York Law School.
Jan 7, 2022 9:44 AM CST
All nine U.S. Supreme Court justices have received their COVID-19 booster shots, the high court confirmed Tuesday.
Jan 5, 2022 2:13 PM CST
“Just in the Nick of Time” is part memoir, part courtroom drama and part medical mystery that examines whether David Savitz’s handsome, charming client had a real psychiatric disorder or was a crafty manipulator trying to fake his way out of a murder conviction.
Jan 4, 2022 10:28 AM CST
Looking for a law school with the best quality of life? Then you might want to consider the University of Virginia School of Law, which took the top spot in that category in rankings released Tuesday by the Princeton Review.
Dec 16, 2021 11:49 AM CST
The tornadoes that devastated Kentucky on Friday damaged a courthouse and lawyers’ offices and took the life of a judge.
Dec 15, 2021 11:16 AM CST
There is an 11.8% increase in first-year law students for the 2021 admissions cycle, compared to 2020, according to data released Wednesday by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Dec 15, 2021 10:48 AM CST
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