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Showing posts with label legal profession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal profession. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2024

My writing is 'not very good,' and other reasons you can't get ahead in our not-really-a meritocracy

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Pxhere CC0 A purported mentor once told me that probably I couldn't find a job in academics because my "writing is not very good.&...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Mass. attorney board rushes to racialize, shun 'overseer,' ignores word's ancient, biblical usages

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A proposal published for public comment would change the name of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers to the "Board of Bar Oversi...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

South American visitor wonders at lawyer billboards; artist imagines canine advocates instead

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A young man I know from Paraguay recently visited the Philadelphia area for a week, his first time in the United States. I texted to check o...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Sherman speaks on lawyering, Spotlight investigation

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Ambassador Robert Sherman RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attorney Robert A. Sherman , U.S. ambassador to Portugal from 2014 to 2017, spoke ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Lawyers on social media delight, inform, raise ethics questions about attorney-client relationships

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An attorney panel earlier this month shared the joys and hazards of lawyers addressing the general public through social media. A hat tip to...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

AI can make law better and more accessible; it won't

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Gencraft AI image Artificial intelligence is changing the legal profession, and the supply of legal services is growing even more disconnec...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Taxpayers help to fatten Big Law in prosecution that Chinese community chalks up to racial profiling

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Rawpixel CC0 The American trend to embrace attorney fee-shifting is a cash cow for the corporate defense bar. A pending case speaks to the ...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Lawyers spotlight persecution of profession in Iran

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Taymaz Valley via Flickr CC BY 2.0 Yesterday the International Law Section (ILS) of the American Bar Association (ABA) recognized the In...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

'Fisk' is the civil-practice lawyer you've been looking for

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If you're looking to fill that Netflix queue as the writers' strike drags on, check out the Australian sitcom, Fisk . When I put tog...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Does law school make students 'comedy-ready'?

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Zarna Garg (from Press Kit ) Zarna Garg is a comedian known for her identity as an Indian-American mom. She's also a lawyer. A lot of ...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Judge teaches, supports professional development by encouraging appearance of junior attorneys

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In multi-district civil antitrust litigation over turkey prices, a federal magistrate judge in Illinois in the fall issued an unusual order...