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SAILORS' SUITS - While passengers serve cruise companies with lawsuits on a daily basis, crew members don't, thanks to widespread arbitration clauses, reports Raychel Lean. Could that change?

MIRROR, MIRROR - As legal departments push big law firms for more diversity, advocates for diversity say there's still work to be done in companies, especially at the general counsel level. Caroline Spezio reports that fewer than 20 percent of Fortune 500 general counsel were people of color.

'TWAS INEVITABLE? Two lawyer groups are fighting over same three-letter acronym: CLA. As Ross Todd reports, the California Lawyers for the Arts, an arts group that's been around for decades, claims that the California Lawyers Association acted in bad faith when adopting the CLA acronym after rolling out from the State Bar in 2018.