Diversity
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Podcasts
The Law, The Law! It's Chock Full Of Clowns. Dubious Lawsuits Up And Productivity's Down!
A little Broadway for this week's title. -
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Biglaw
Black Hair, Big Law (Part II): The Harshest Critics Of Black Attorneys’ Hair
Plus more information on Black hair in the workplace.
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Law Schools
Law Schools Prepare For Their First Salvo Of Post-Affirmative Action Applications
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.10.23
* Another day, another several hundred grand worth of unethical and undisclosed gifts for Clarence Thomas. [ProPublica]
* ABA encouraging law firms to redouble efforts to expand diversity… before the Supreme Court makes it illegal. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Lawsuit alleges private attorney took on upwards of 600 indigent client criminal cases, collecting huge sums from the city, and then not doing any work. That’s not totally true… the lawsuit alleges that the lawyer was quite diligent about filing motions for fees. [ABA Journal]
* Treasury announcing regulations to curb money laundering through real estate. Maybe Manhattan will be affordable again in 15 years! [Reuters]
* A Wisconsin police department refuses to divulge the name of officers who shoot people citing victim’s rights laws and arguing that if they shot someone they must have felt threatened and therefore are the real victims. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
* Don’t use AI to write your firm’s web content reports the department of obvious things. [Search Engine Journal]
* Ninth Circuit says text spam is not covered by the TCPA. Great! Just in time for generative AI to remove almost every entry barrier to mass text spamming. [Law360]
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Law Schools
Is Columbia Law Trying To Do Affirmative Action In The Most Obvious Way Possible? Probably Not.
It would be harder to defend the school if they were requiring a 23&Me print out sheet. -
Biglaw
Biglaw's Most Diverse Equity Partner Ranks
Industry wide, just over 11 percent of equity partners are diverse. -
Law Schools
Not Sure How To Mention Diversity After The Supreme Court Decision? We've Got You Covered.
In short, keep applying! - 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… -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firms Don't Seem To Care About Tom Cotton's Anti-Diversity Legal Threats
And law firm consultants are having a field day roasting the senator. -
Courts
Come On Barbie, Let's Go Litigate!
People are very red in the face about a movie that's so pretty in pink. And it's hilarious! -
Biglaw
Tom Cotton Threatens Top Biglaw Firms Over Their Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
He's going after the biggest firms in the country to put an end to their DEI efforts. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.20.23
* Corporate Counsel names the finalists for its best legal department awards. Come see if FTX made the list! [Corporate Counsel]
* Taylor Swift hires Venable attorney as general counsel. [Minute Mirror]
* Tom Cotton doesn’t actually legislate, but he does write letters like an elderly shut-in complaining to the local paper about the weather. His latest attempt at making a pen pal involved writing 51 law firms to warn them that he thinks hiring diverse attorneys violates the Supreme Court’s college admissions opinion. [Law360]
* Senate panel poised to pass Supreme Court ethics package that will die on the vine after this. [Reuters]
* Government unveils new merger guidelines to replace the old guidelines that encouraged bigger and bigger mergers. When people say the government keeps losing antitrust cases, a big part of that is the pre-existing pro-merger guidelines that the government just made up decades ago. [New York Times]
* A profile of retired Judge David Tatel as he heads to Hogan Lovells to work on pro bono matters. [Bloomberg Law News]
* The other day we featured a story about a lawyer leaving the job to cycle through the Americas so it’s only fair to balance that with a two-time Olympic cyclist who became a lawyer representing injured cyclists. [ABA Journal]
* While others talk layoffs, Paul Weiss announced it’s still looking at first-year applicants. And when it comes to job security, Paul Weiss has a strong reputation. [Intuitive Career Coaching]
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Courts
State Supreme Court Justice Uncorks Bonkers Tantrum That You Really Have To Read To Believe
Powerful conservative white women ranting about wokeness and quoting Martin Luther King? Check and check!
Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Courts
The Slippery Slope Of Ending Affirmative Action Has Moved On To Its Next Target: Women And 'Proxies For Diversity'
I don't think they know how close to the sun they are flying. -
Courts
First They Came For Affirmative Action. Then They Came For Legacy Admissions. Good Riddance.
If you wanna get weird, let's get wild. -
Biglaw
Vault Ranks The Best Law Firms For Diversity (2024)
Did your law firm make the cut this time around? -
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Courts
Working To Close The Gavel Gap
Emphasizing the importance of having diverse representation in the judiciary. -
Biglaw
The 2023 Biglaw Diversity Scorecard: More Progress Amid A War On DEI
Biglaw firms continue to push forward when it comes to diversity.