Tossed Overboard, Diversifying GCs, Acronym Angst: The Morning Minute
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March 11, 2019 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
|SAILORS' SUITS - While passengers serve cruise companies with lawsuits on a daily basis, crew members don't, thanks to widespread arbitration clauses, reports Raychel Lean. Could that change?
MIRROR, MIRROR - As legal departments push big law firms for more diversity, advocates for diversity say there's still work to be done in companies, especially at the general counsel level. Caroline Spezio reports that fewer than 20 percent of Fortune 500 general counsel were people of color.
'TWAS INEVITABLE? Two lawyer groups are fighting over same three-letter acronym: CLA. As Ross Todd reports, the California Lawyers for the Arts, an arts group that's been around for decades, claims that the California Lawyers Association acted in bad faith when adopting the CLA acronym after rolling out from the State Bar in 2018.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
|Georgia Judge Guides Readers Through Atlanta's Rap Music Scene in Court Decision Cruising for a Bruising: Passenger Personal Injury Suits Flow, But Crew Member Litigation is Drying Up Meet the (Overwhelmingly Female) Attorneys Featured at This Year's SXSW The Top 50 Go-To Law Schools
Trump Watch: A Look Inside Judge T.S. Ellis' Courtroom During Manafort's Sentencing
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
|THE BILLABLE EFFECT - On International Women's Day, female lawyers told Hannah Roberts that the billable hours model is stifling careers. One female partner in the London office of a U.S. firm said, “This is a male-dominated industry, and men are never going to get rid of billable hours because it works for them.”
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WHAT YOU SAID
“Courtroom humor is really about people being uncomfortable for being put on the spot.”
— MATTHEW SAG OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, WHO CO-AUTHORED A STUDY OF MORE THAN 9,000 INSTANCES OF LAUGHTER IN 6,864 CASES OVER 63 YEARS AT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. TRANSCRIPTS OF HEARINGS INCLUDE A REFERENCE TO “LAUGHTER.”
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