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Showing posts with label legal profession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal profession. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Big Law cowardice calls legal licensure into question

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The WAMU podcast 1A put on an excellent show Monday on the White House threats against law firms. The show featured Princeton University ...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Christian law students hear advice on grounding oneself in faith amid stresses of law practice

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🍀 St. Patrick's Day Zoom . RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The newly constituted student Christian Legal Society at UMass Law School he...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Book details knotty business of higher ed counsel

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By attorney Louis H. Guard and academic Joyce P. Jacobsen , All the Campus Lawyers (2024) is a compelling recent read for anyone intereste...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Americans can't find doctors in sick system, but docs whine too loudly on debt, ignore excessive earnings

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In the current AARP Bulletin  ( pay wall , Apple News ), New York Dr. Howard Zucker capably explains why Americans are being squeezed by a ...
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 ...