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Karen Sloan is the Legal Education Editor and Senior Writer at ALM. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @KarenSloanNLJ Sign up for Ahead of the Curve—her weekly email update on trends and innovation in legal education—here: https://www.law.com/briefings/ahead-of-the-curve/
July 2, 2021 | Law.com
This week, we're highlighting an interview from May that you might have missed on a topic that's only becoming more relevant as 2021 continues on and more firms look to make staffing reductions.
By Zack Needles | Karen Sloan
2 minute read
July 1, 2021 | Law.com
The American Bar Association is scheduled to consider a slate of changes to its diversity and inclusions standards in August.
By Karen Sloan
7 minute read
June 25, 2021 | Law.com
This week's episode is your chance to get some pointers on legal writing from a sitting judge without worrying about having your motion tossed out. Am Law Litigation Daily editor and columnist Ross Todd chats with 10th Circuit Judge Robert E. Bacharach, author of the recent book, "Legal Writing: A Judge's Perspective on the Science and Rhetoric of the Written Word." The book examines legal writing through the lens of psycholinguistics, a branch of cognitive science focused on how the brain processes language and speech.
By Zack Needles | Karen Sloan
1 minute read
June 17, 2021 | Law.com
Law firm recruiter and consultant Sharon Mahn breaks down the latest associate pay bonanza and why firms are scrambling to get on board.
By Karen Sloan | Zack Needles
1 minute read
June 11, 2021 | Law.com
In this week's episode, Law.com's Ross Todd talks with Susan Saltzstein, a securities and complex litigation partner at Skadden, about what's driving the recent uptick in securities litigation over SPAC transactions—and why it all feels familiar.
By Zack Needles | Karen Sloan
2 minute read
June 4, 2021 | Law.com
Yih-Hsien Shen, associate director of J.D. advising at Harvard Law School, discusses how law firms are approaching this year's summer associate programs and what lessons they learned from last year's virtual programs.
By Karen Sloan | Zack Needles
2 minute read
May 21, 2021 | Law.com
Orrick associates Walter Alarkon and Andrea Mazingo discuss their participation in the firm's new Racial, Social, and Economic Justice Fellowship program.
By Karen Sloan | Zack Needles
1 minute read
May 12, 2021 | Law.com
This week's episode features a conversation with Patrick Krill, principal and founder of Krill Strategies, a behavioral health consulting firm focused exclusively on the legal industry. Krill raises an interesting and little-discussed point: as law firms continue to cut support staff and embrace automation, they're limiting lawyers' human interactions even further, which is likely to exacerbate feelings of isolation that so many in the industry already struggle with.
By Zack Needles | Karen Sloan
1 minute read
April 30, 2021 | Law.com
Despite—or, perhaps more accurately, because of—its rocky start, 2020 ended up being a banner year for Big Law financials. The pandemic forced law firms to cut costs in a major way, but there was a lot more than that behind firms' soaring profits.
By Zack Needles | Karen Sloan
1 minute read
April 20, 2021 | Law.com
Attorney Dustin Robinson shares how he went from working at a large law firm to founding his own firm called Mr. Cannabis Law, which serves clients in the cannabis and psychedelics industries.
By Karen Sloan | Zack Needles
1 minute read
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