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K&L Gates announces two successors to longtime leader Peter Kalis

Two lawyers have been named to replace Peter Kalis, the chairman and global managing partner of K&L Gates, the law firm announced on Monday. Beginning in March 2017, Michael Caccese will become firm chairman and James Segerdahl will become global managing partner, according to a press release. The firm announced…

Sep 19, 2016 12:55 PM CDT

Did Hillary Clinton fudge a detail in her LSAT recollection?

Some critics are raising questions about Hillary Clinton’s recollection of a negative experience before she took the Law School Admission Test. Clinton wrote at the Humans of New York blog that she was one of only a few women waiting to take the test when men in the exam room…

Sep 19, 2016 10:18 AM CDT

Want law firm work-life balance? Parents and management should work together, says Justice Ginsburg

Parents in private practice should act together to decide what sort of offerings could help work-life balance, and law firms would be wise to accommodate the requests, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Wednesday, speaking to the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. “Firms don’t…

Sep 16, 2016 12:10 PM CDT

Davis Polk announces recruiting effort aimed at women who left the firm to raise children

As an attempt to increase diversity, Davis Polk & Wardwell recently started a program that recruits women who left the firm to raise their children. The offering, which the firm calls “Davis Polk Revisited,” targets lawyers who practiced there for at least three years, and have been gone for two…

Sep 15, 2016 10:30 AM CDT

David Colarusso: The data scientist at law

The data scientist at law

Sep 15, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

Dewey B Strategic’s Jean O’Grady leads lawyers through the tech maze (podcast)

Most people see librarians as the quiet personification of technical obsolescence. Jean O’Grady is out to change that. Far from sitting in a dusty room full of outdated books and CD-ROMs and telling visitors to keep quiet, the senior director of research and knowledge at DLA Piper in Washington, D.C.,…

Sep 14, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

Don’t speak for us, women Chadbourne partners tell lawyer behind sex discrimination case

Some women partners at Chadbourne & Parke say that they want no part of a recent sex discrimination lawsuit seeking class-action status against the firm. The letter was sent Monday to David W. Sanford, the plaintiffs lawyer who filed the case, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports. Kerrie Campbell,…

Sep 13, 2016 12:49 PM CDT

Deborah Z. Read: A new ‘PaTH’ for her firm

A new PaTH for her firm

Sep 13, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

Lawyer hopes to be the best fighter outside of court

Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes, a Massachusetts lawyer, says she likes to fight—literally—and it’s nothing like litigation. Besides her practice doing workers’ compensation work, she’s training for the World Boxing Council World female super welterweight title, which she hopes to win in her native Poland, the Boston Herald reports. “The law ……

Sep 12, 2016 5:32 PM CDT

Hillary Clinton explains how a bad LSAT experience taught her to keep her emotions in check

Hillary Clinton says she learned a lesson about keeping her emotions in check when she took the Law School Admission Test. Clinton tells the Humans of New York blog that she was one of only a few women waiting to take the test in the Harvard classroom. “I was feeling…

Sep 12, 2016 8:15 AM CDT

Manik Suri: Changing government on both ends

Changing government ‘on both ends’

Sep 8, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

JPMorgan decision on minimum level of assets for premium service hits lawyers hard

Lawyers are hard hit by JPMorgan’s decision to require clients of its top banking service to have $10 million in investible assets. Lawyers are the clients most affected by the bank’s decision to double the minimum required, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. Those who meet the $10 million…

Sep 7, 2016 2:14 PM CDT

J.J. Prescott: Go to court without leaving home

Go to court without leaving home

Sep 7, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

90 people who were told they failed the bar exam learn it’s not true

Ninety people who were told they failed the Georgia Bar Exam are getting some good news: They actually passed. Errors in scoring the July 2015 and February 2016 exam caused the problem, according to a statement by the Georgia Supreme Court’s Office of Bar Examiners. The Daily Report (sub. req.)…

Sep 6, 2016 3:05 PM CDT

Longtime K&L Gates chair Peter Kalis to step down in 2017

Longtime K&L Gates chair Peter Kalis will step down once his current term ends in early 2017. In a Tuesday press release, the firm announced that Kalis would not seek a sixth term as chair of the firm he has led since 1997. According to the press release, Kalis had…

Sep 6, 2016 12:15 PM CDT