Gender Pay Gap
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Government, Sponsored Content
Closing The Gender Pay Gap
An update on state and local legislative efforts to increase wage equity. - 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… -
Money
Yup, Female Partner Compensation Still Lags Behind Male Partners
Disappointed, but not surprised.
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Law Schools
Law School Settles Lawsuit Over Unequal Pay... Again.
The details of this story seem awfully familiar. -
Biglaw
Women Need To Not Take What Law Firms Give Them At Face Value
Another thing keeping the gender pay gap alive. -
Money
Oh Great, The Gender Pay Gap Is Actually Getting Worse For General Counsel
It doesn't get better. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Biglaw
Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Jones Day Dropped -- Well, One Of Them At Least
This isn't the end of Jones Day's gender discrimination woes. -
Biglaw, Small Law Firms, Sponsored Content
How to Be Your Best Advocate: Insights From a Recruiter About the Gender Pay Gap
Your previous experience should be a springboard, not a limitation. -
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Finance
Gender Pay Gap In The Legal Profession May Have A Relationship To Publicized Trump-Era Misogyny
Did misogyny in the national discourse empower supervising attorneys to just let their unconscious biases take the wheel for a while? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.07.18
* In case you missed it, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh refused to condemn President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary (specifically, his insults of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg), refused to say whether he believed same-sex marriage was a constitutional right, and once again denied discussing the Mueller probe with anyone at Kasowitz Benson. What will happen today? [Washington Post]
* President Donald Trump has reportedly called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “a dumb Southerner” and an “idiot” without an Ivy League law degree who “couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.” This Alabama Law professor wonders what’s so bad about a degree from Alabama Law. [New York Times]
* Per a new study from the American Bar Association, the sky is blue and women and minorities continue to face racial and gender bias within the legal profession. But, here are some tools to fight these problems. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Allen & Overy has published its 2018 gender pay gap figures, and it’s the first U.K. firm to include data from its “overwhelmingly male” partners in its disclosures. A&O’s median gender pay gap is 39 percent, a slight improvement. [Financial Times]
* It seems that the Justice Department no longer thinks that employers should be forced to consider job applicants with criminal histories, going against Obama-era guidance that the EEOC has been following since 2012. [National Law Journal]
* In an historic opinion, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex between adults is not a crime, casting aside an “irrational, arbitrary, and incomprehensible” colonial-era law that made the act a punishable offense within the country. [Times of India]
* Fire alarms sounded at Miami Law as smoke poured through vents into a student lounge, and some students evacuated their classrooms, but others ran back in to save their laptops. Well, obviously — they’re law students, after all. [Miami Hurricane]
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Biglaw
Jones Day Hit With Explosive Gender Discrimination Case
The complaint takes aim at all things Jones Day: from the compensation black box, to Trump support, to their "fraternity" culture. -
Biglaw
Proskauer Hits Back At Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
The Biglaw firm argues the plaintiff 'cherry-picked' the stats in the complaint. -
Biglaw
There's A 27 Percent Global Gender Pay Gap For Equity Partners
These numbers are discouraging. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.26.18
* As it turns out, Joe diGenova — the lawyer who’s convinced that the Justice Department is trying to frame Trump with its Russia investigation — won’t be joining the president’s personal legal team after all due to conflicts of interest. DiGenova’s wife, Victoria Toensing, has been conflicted out as well. Oopsie! [New York Times]
* President Trump tweeted this weekend that “[m]any lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case,” and that his difficulty in finding lawyers to join his defense team is “Fake News.” Meanwhile, at least four defense attorneys at separate Biglaw firms have been approached, and most have turned down the offer. [CNN]
* In her 60 Minutes interview, Stormy Daniels says she was once physically threatened to keep quiet about her affair with Donald Trump and was later pressured into signing a false statement denying the affair because she believed that Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, would “make [her] life hell.” Cohen has denied threatening Daniels. [Washington Post]
* In the summer of 2014, Bracewell & Giuliani warned Cambridge Analytica that foreign citizens shouldn’t have “substantive management” roles running U.S. election campaigns, and yet, that’s exactly what the company did in its work with the Trump campaign, and now Robert Mueller is on the case. [Washington Examiner; TIME]
* Some law firms in the U.K. have started including information on partners’ salaries in their mandatory gender pay gap reporting. The first firms to do so were Norton Rose Fulbright, with a 27 percent pay gap for all employees (including partners), and Reed Smith, with an 8 percent pay gap among only partners. [Financial Times]
* Law student Jordan Crewe has already filed suit against the soon-to-be-closed Savannah Law School, accusing the school of committing fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty. She’s requesting punitive damages from the school, and wants a jury trial too. [WSAV]
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Biglaw
Finally, A Biglaw Firm With A Gender Pay Gap That Favors Women
Male associates are being paid less than women at this firm. -
Biglaw
Another Biglaw Firm Reports Dismal Gender Pay Gap
At Allen & Overy, average bonuses for men are 42.1% higher than for women.