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Trailblazers honored by ABA with award named for first female lawyer in America

This year, five lawyers were selected to receive the award. “We are honored to recognize this spectacular group of women,” says Michele Coleman Mayes, chair of the women’s commission, in a statement. “We applaud their achievements, knowing that their efforts will inspire a new generation of women lawyers.”

Aug 1, 2017 12:40 AM CDT

Scaramucci was ‘a big personality’ at Harvard Law, classmate says

Updated: Anthony Scaramucci —President Donald Trump’s communications director until Trump reportedly decided Monday to remove him—was well-liked and a “big personality” at Harvard Law School, according to one of his classmates from the class of 1989. “In some ways, Scaramucci is a funnier and smarter version of his boss,” Richard…

Jul 31, 2017 3:16 PM CDT

Scaramucci out as White House communications director after 10 days

Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director after just 10 days on the job.

Jul 31, 2017 2:22 PM CDT

‘Better Call Saul’ highlights stress and mental illness in the legal profession

Spoiler alert: The final two episodes of the third season of AMC’s series Better Call Saul let viewers glimpse a world where lawyers suffer from stress and other various mental illnesses. Unfortunately, the portrayals are alarmingly close to the challenges practicing attorneys face.

Jul 31, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Expected retirements likely to increase pressures on overworked government lawyers

Government lawyers are already feeling workload pressures, and it is likely to get worse.

Sixty-seven percent of government lawyers responding to a Thomson Reuters survey said scarce resources and tight budgets were adding pressure to their workloads.

Jul 28, 2017 8:45 AM CDT

Stoel Rives laying off 17 staffers; about half of law firm leaders report staff layoffs

Stoel Rives is laying off 17 administrative staffers as it changes its staffing model. Its decision is by no means unusual, according to a survey (PDF) this year by Altman Weil, the Am Law Daily (sub. req.) reports. The consulting firm’s survey found that 48 percent of the law firm…

Jul 27, 2017 12:32 PM CDT

A healing response to ‘The Lawyer, the Addict’

By now, most lawyers have read or heard about the recent New York Times article, “The Lawyer, the Addict.”

Jul 27, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Fewer in US working remotely, but it’s a popular option at top law firms for women

Remote work is the most popular flex option among lawyers, and it’s offered by all 50 law firms on Working Mother’s list of the 50 best for women. At 17 of the law firms, every lawyer takes advantage of the remote work option, according to a Working Mother story. Overall,…

Jul 25, 2017 3:54 PM CDT

Former ABA president and WWII veteran David Brink dies at 97

Former ABA President David Brink has passed away at 97. Brink, who during his 1981-1982 tenure championed Human Rights Trial Observer programs and extending the rule of law internationally, was a retired partner at Dorsey & Whitney. Brink died on Thursday in Minneapolis. “David was a tremendous contributor to the…

Jul 25, 2017 3:51 PM CDT

Women still make up fewer than 35 percent of lawyers in US law firms, survey says

Progress for women lawyers seeking greater representation in U.S. law firms is incremental at best, according to a “Glass Ceiling Report” by Law360. Women made up only 34.8 percent of lawyers at surveyed law firms at the end of 2016, up from 34 percent the prior year, according to Law360…

Jul 25, 2017 8:00 AM CDT

F. Leary Davis, founding dean of two law schools, dies at age 75

The only person believed to be the founding dean of two law schools has died at the age of 75. F. Leary Davis Jr. died Thursday from leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Greensboro News & Record reports. Davis was named dean of…

Jul 24, 2017 3:01 PM CDT

F. Lee Bailey: Where is he now?

F. Lee Bailey is broke and working as a consultant above the hair salon of his girlfriend. The Washington Post has that summary of Bailey’s life, gleaned from a profile in Town & Country magazine. Bailey was one of the lawyers on O.J. Simpson’s defense team in 1995 when the…

Jul 20, 2017 11:55 AM CDT

Asian-Americans are apparently losing interest in law school; report shows outsize enrollment drop

Asian-American enrollment in law school has declined more steeply than that of other racial and ethnic groups, according to a report documenting a glass ceiling for this group in the law.

From 2009 to 2016, Asian-Americans’ first-year enrollment in law school dropped by 43 percent, compared to a 28 percent drop for all students, a 34 percent drop among whites and a 14 percent drop among African-Americans. Hispanic enrollment, meanwhile, increased by 29 percent.

Jul 20, 2017 7:00 AM CDT

BigLaw partner managed to dial in to work conference call before his drug-related death

An intellectual property partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati continued to obsess over his work even as drug addiction took over his life.

Jul 19, 2017 7:00 AM CDT

Atlanta law firm plans to add a virtual branch

Atlanta law firm Taylor English Duma plans to hire partners throughout the country who will become part of a virtual hub for the law firm.

Taylor English says its “hybrid” law firm model will offer more support to its work-at-home partners than other virtual law firms, according to the Daily Report (sub. req.).

Jul 17, 2017 3:57 PM CDT