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Vanessa is director of newsroom innovation at ALM and leads new journalism initiatives including Legal Radar, Law.com Briefings and the Legal Speak podcast. Contact Vanessa at [email protected]. On Twitter: @vanessablum.
March 27, 2020 | Law.com
Keith Wetmore, former chairman at Morrison & Foerster, and Bill Brandt, who has helped handle workouts and restructurings for nearly 40 law firms, had big roles during the 2008 recession. Here's their perspective on the major challenges law firms are facing now.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
March 20, 2020 | Law.com
As the country combats the COVID-19 crisis, lawyers are settling into a new work reality. We checked in to see how they're coping.
By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones
1 minute read
March 13, 2020 | Law.com
In this episode, we explore law student activism, and how future attorneys attending law schools at Harvard, Yale, New York University and elsewhere are using their leverage to protest policies and practices.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
March 6, 2020 | Law.com
Law.com journalists—Dylan Jackson, Heather Nevitt, Jack Newsham and Karen Sloan—report on how this rapidly changing situation is upending operations at law firms, law schools and legal departments.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
February 28, 2020 | Law.com
Journalist Eilene Zimmerman, the ex-wife of a Wilson Sonsini partner who died of a drug overdose about five years ago, shares what she learned about Big Law culture in researching her new book "Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction and Tragedy."
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
February 21, 2020 | Law.com
Is being a lawyer hard? What happens if a bad client wants to hire you? Why do lawyers keep secrets? On this episode of Legal Speak, we let kids ask the questions.
By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones
1 minute read
February 14, 2020 | Law.com
In this episode, The Careerist Vivia Chen talks with Squire Patton Boggs global managing partner Frederick Nance about the progress—and lack of it—in opportunities for African American attorneys in Big Law.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
February 7, 2020 | Law.com
In-house and law firm leaders tell us what tools make their lives easier, what technologies are over-hyped, and what they're doing to transform the organizations they work for.
By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones
1 minute read
January 31, 2020 | Law.com
In conjunction with the launch of our new website, Law.com International, Lisa Shuchman, senior editor of the site, takes us around the world to explain what the implications of political unrest in Hong Kong, the Coronavirus, Brexit, the growth of class actions in Australia, and much more mean for Big Law and beyond.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
January 24, 2020 | Law.com
This week, we look at the albatross hanging around the necks of so many lawyers: student loan debt.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
The National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers recognizes U.S.-based law firms performing exemplary work on behalf of plaintiffs.
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