When Claudia Trupp had a cancer scare, the New York appellate public defender decided to author a book. Written between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.. for six months, as her…
Lawyers from Keker & Van Nest and a new law firm of defecting lawyers have made polite public statements about the split, but beneath the surface lies bitterness over a…
It may not be whether women lawyers have children but how much they focus on their families that accounts for a widely reported gender gap between the salaries and partnership…
Working as an associate on the 47th floor of a Chicago BigLaw firm’s offices, Michelle Obama initially thought she had gotten where she wanted to be in life.
Shortly after she was named to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1996, Brooksley E. Born was invited to lunch by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
More than a decade ago, Brooksley Born warned that unregulated financial markets were getting out of hand. Now many in Washington wish they’d listened.
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