Jill Switzer

The scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer commanded respect by earning it and had a very different view of how people should work together across disciplines and not hierarchies.

Perhaps being a judge doesn't have quite the cachet it used to.

Regrettably, coming on down is the last thing on the California State Bar's mind.

What are some of the 'soft skills' essential to good lawyering? Being human is one of them.

Welcome to the thicket of ways in which legal professionals can overextend themselves (and how the Australians have come up with one way to curtail it).

Will the clueless will ever understand that a conference is not a sex-themed Disneyland ticket?

Rankings? It’s not what you bring to the table when you enter law school, it’s the education you carry when you practice.

Block billing used to be the teeth grinder. Now, it's AI.

The more complex the inquiry, the greater the tendency to hallucinate, at least for the AIs.

Every reputationally challenged lawyer adds to the stain on the profession.

A tale slightly older than time ...

No longer a haven for burned-out law firm lawyers, in-housers are burned out as well. Can AI help them stop feeling the burn?

The Grinch, The Marx Brothers, George Bailey, Tom Girardi. Making a list, checking it twice.

From college presidents to lawyers to Lloyd Bridges characters, sometimes we all fail to read the room.

Remember when Dave Bowman couldn't get the HAL-9000 to open the pod bay doors? Yeah.

To do that? Law schools need to instill in students the ability to write clearly.

There's something positively ... Nixonian in the air.

Possessing a chutzpah-enhanced capacity to push the limits does not mean that a lawyer should use the aforementioned ability.

Business people don’t understand ethical issues that lawyers labor under. The reality is that not every issue can be solved with a snap of the fingers.

Among the good news this week, a woman won the Nobel in economics (and got a check for the same amount as the men did).