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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.01.17
* This is not a metaphor — John Quinn takes on Everest. [Big Law Business]
* A DOJ staffer got the ball rolling on the Mike Flynn investigation. [Wall Street Journal]
* Get your popcorn ready for next week’s Comey testimony. [Huffington Post]
* Financial advice just in case you get laid off. [Law and More]
* Paul Caron starts his term as Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law. [TaxProf Blog]
* Internet surveillance isn’t the future, it’s the present. [Katz Justice]
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Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
In Response To Defenders Of The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
Public interest work is important, but PSLF is not the best way to promote such service. - 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… -
Lawyerly Lairs, Politics, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: George And Kellyanne Conway's $8 Million Mansion
This prominent presidential adviser and her husband, a longtime Biglaw partner, are living large.
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Money, Technology, Wall Street
What People Can Teach Machines
The reality of machine learning doesn't live up to the hype -- and this creates opportunities. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Comply Or Pay: The Judge Dredd-ish Requirements Of Employment Law
Watch out for these areas of the employer-employee relationship, where there's practically no room for error. -
Canada, Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
Court Awards (Illegal?) Surrogacy Costs To Plaintiff
Maybe our cold neighbor to the north is warming up to the idea of paid surrogacy. -
Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
The Ten-Year Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Is Abusive And Should Be Eliminated
Something is seriously wrong when people are choosing their careers based on the amount of loan forgiveness. -
Trials, Wall Street
Nomura Bond Traders’ Real Crime Was Corrupting America’s Youth
Won’t somebody please think of the children? - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Money, Securities Law, Small Law Firms, Wall Street
Looking Back On A Year Of Crowdfunding
What are the pros and cons of crowdfunding for startup companies seeking capital? -
Law Schools
Uh-Oh... Law School Tuition Hikes Are Back
Please don't doom this law school's graduates to more debt. -
Boutique Law Firms, Litigators, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: What's A Case Worth?
It's critical for law firms, especially small law firms, to evaluate at the outset the potential value of a case. -
Money
Greece Has A Newest Last Bailout Deal
Peace In our time (for real they say, this time, again). -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
A Surrogate Can Make $500,000?! Sounds Too Good To Be True
Don't drop out of law school to become a surrogate just yet....
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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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Litigation Finance, Litigators, Money
The Value of Middle-Market Litigation Finance
The current reality in the market leaves the vast majority of business litigation unserved. -
Law Schools, Minority Issues, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Crispin Passmore: 2017's Champion Of Diversity In The Law
Big change -- for the better -- in how the United Kingdom trains its lawyers. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.01.17
* Checks and balances, how do they work? President Donald Trump seems to be looking for anyone and anything to blame for his first 100 days in office being bungled, and he’s finally settled on the rule system that controls the Senate, calling it a “very rough system,” an “archaic system” that’s “really a bad thing for the country.” [The Guardian]
* In other news, according to Reince Priebus, President Trump’s chief of staff, something that the White House has looked into is changing libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations, but “[h]ow it gets executed or whether that goes anywhere is a different story.” Wow. [CNN]
* One things for sure — there’s no Supreme Court retirement watch here: Described as “exuberant,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently exclaimed that she “love[s] her job,” and that Justice Elena Kagan must be absolutely thrilled about Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation, since that means she’ll no longer have to suffer through the incredibly boring tasks typically given to the high court’s junior justice. [National Law Journal]
* “The logic of the decision is hard to accept. You’re OK’ing a system that perpetuates the inequity in compensation for women.” In a disheartening opinion, the Ninth Circuit said employers may legally pay women less than their male counterparts for the same work based exclusively on differences in their prior salaries, even though those differences were recently ruled discriminatory under the Equal Pay Act by a lower court. [CBS News]
* A second suspect has been arrested in the fatal April 10 shooting of Cook County Associate Judge Raymond Myles. Earl Wilson, 45, a man who is “no stranger to the criminal justice system,” was charged with first-degree murder. Per prosecutors, this was a robbery gone wrong, and Myles was not supposed to be killed. Myles is the first Chicago-area judge to be fatally shot in more than three decades. [Chicago Tribune]
* Late last week, the Hollywood Reporter released its annual ranking of the best attorneys who serve the nation’s most glamorous celebrities — the Hollywood 100 — which is always celebrated like “lawyer Christmas in Hollywood for a day.” How many Biglaw attorneys made the list in the tenth edition of the rankings, and how well represented are each of their firms? We’ll have more on this later. [Big Law Business]
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Biglaw, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings
The 2017 Am Law 100: A Turning Point For Biglaw?
Revenue per lawyer was basically flat; also, there's a new #2 in the rankings. -
Law Schools
Requiem For My Law School
This is a very personal memorial to a school that really died some years ago, although it didn’t know it then. -
Money, Technology
Unstructured Data, Text Documents, And The Attorneys of Tomorrow
Attorneys need to look at how the insights from non-traditional data analytics can complement their own skill sets. -
Law Professors, Law Schools
Some Sad Truths About The Closing Of Whittier Law School
A harsh indictment of legal academia -- from one of its own members.