Disasters / Emergencies
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Law Schools
Law School Finals Go On As Scheduled While City Burns
Not all law students were willing to potentially risk life and limb to take a stupid test. -
Disasters / Emergencies, Public Interest
SMU Dedman Law Alum And APIS Chair Punam Kaji On Building Bridges In The Wake Of Hurricane Harvey
Even attorneys whose homes were damaged were asking, 'What should we be doing right now to help?' - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Law Schools
Schools Step Up To Assist Puerto Rican Law Students Displaced By Hurricane Maria
Which law schools will provide needy Puerto Rican students with assistance in their studies?
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Disasters / Emergencies
We Need Lawyers Who Can 'Write' In Spanish To Help Puerto Rico
And we need to ease the rules so lawyers can help. -
Disasters / Emergencies, Technology
Pour Out Your Money, But Carefully, For Texas And Florida
And escape to Chicago -- which boasts a big, beautiful lake! -
Technology
Irma, Waze, And Watson
Today's technology is truly transformational, but lawyers must use it correctly and appropriately. -
Disasters / Emergencies, Justice, Police
LOL-Flori-Duh: Sheriff Who Threatened To Arrest People Seeking Shelter Has Already Been Sued
This spun up more quickly than a category five. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Intellectual Property, Technology
What Hurricane Irma And The Equifax Hack Have In Common… And What To Learn From It
You cannot predict when (or where) the next data breach will occur, but you can prepare for it. -
Disasters / Emergencies, Pro Bono
After Hurricane Irma, Florida Legal Community Is In It For The Long Haul
The legal issues are just beginning. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.11.17
* “Legal aid is critical after a natural disaster,” so the Florida Bar has raised the income cap for its online legal clinic so Floridians affected by Hurricane Irma can get legal assistance, and the Florida Bar Foundation has set aside $500,000 to support legal aid organizations. How generous! [Law.com]
* Sixteen years have passed since the September 11 attacks, but we’ve yet to try or convict any of the five men who are said to have planned the day that changed America, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged “architect of 9/11.” Some lawyers wonder why this “isn’t a cause for more outrage.” [Al Jazeera]
* In case you missed it, Irell & Manella has elected Ellisen Turner as its first African-American managing partner. Among the many accolades he’s earned over the course of his illustrious legal career, Above the Law once referred to him as a “hottie.” Congratulations on all accounts! [Big Law Business]
* Lawmakers from both parties are interested in holding hearings on the massive Equifax hack, and after outcry from state attorneys general about an arbitration clause that would have prevented those affected by the data breach from suing, the credit reporting agency has changed its terms of service. [The Hill]
* In the wake of Justice Scalia’s death, Justice Kagan says the remaining justices did everything they could to avoid 4-4 split decisions: “[W]e all made a very serious effort to try to find common ground even where we thought we couldn’t. It sort of forced us to keep talking to each other.” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
* Which Biglaw firm is about to get a lot bigger? It’s Cozen O’Connor, apparently. According to CEO Michael Heller, he’d like to increase the firm’s head count to somewhere between 700 and 1,000 lawyers in the next five years. About 600 attorneys are currently working at Cozen. [Am Law Daily]
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Disasters / Emergencies, Family Law
Hurricane Irma Creates Legal Chaos For Surrogates
It's already legally complicated to be a surrogate, and a natural disaster compounds the complexity. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Employer Best Practices In Times Of Emergency
What do you do about employees who can’t come to work during a natural disaster type situation?
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Disasters / Emergencies, Law Schools
Hurricane Harvey And Humanity
Don’t leave your humanity at the door. And please don’t just save it for emergencies. -
Disasters / Emergencies, Law Schools
Law Students Lend Helping Hands In Aftermath Of Hurricane Harvey
All Houston law schools have been closed since last week. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.28.17
* Under cover of a natural disaster, President Donald Trump decided to pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of criminal contempt after ignoring a federal judge’s order. Trump, who has shown contempt for judges since the start of his campaign, now seems to be using his “weaponized pardon power” to circumvent the powers of the judiciary. [New York Times]
* Speaking of Hurricane Harvey, we know that many lawyers, law students, and law professors in Texas have been and continue to be affected by the devastating after effects of the storm. How has your firm or your law school handled the destruction and historic flooding? Please get in touch with us via email, text message (646-820-8477), or tweet (@atlblog) to let us know. [Above the Law]
* Getting back to Joe Arpaio’s pardon, lawyers, former government officials, and current lawmakers of all stripes have spoken out against the president’s unconventional action. Perhaps our favorite comment of all came from Professor Orin Kerr of USC Gould School of Law: “Trump shows his love of the Constitution by pardoning a man who refused to stop violating it.” [Law.com]
* Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly investigating whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn played any kind of a role in obtaining Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers. If he did have something to do with it, Flynn may be more concerned about Clinton’s emails right now than the average Trump voter was in the lead-up to the election. [Wall Street Journal]
* Thanks to President Trump, Irell & Manella now stands to lose one of its top rainmakers. In a Friday announcement, patent litigator Andrei Iancu, a partner at the firm, was nominated to become the next Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. We wonder how long it’ll take for him to be confirmed.[Am Law Daily]
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Disasters / Emergencies, Law Schools
Law School Evacuated Over Electrical Fire
Smoke on the law school... fire in the sky. -
Biglaw
Counterpoint: You're A Lawyer, Not A Sherpa
You're going to work in a snowstorm to suck up, other people are staying home to work. -
Biglaw, Deaths
Former Biglaw Associate Among The Missing In Oakland Fire
Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of this rising legal mind. -
Biglaw, Disasters / Emergencies
Suspicious Package Reported In D.C., Near Many Major Law Firms
Police just issued the all-clear, but it is a reminder of the times that we live in.