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ON OFFICES – Of the many existential questions the COVID-19 pandemic has raised, "Do we still need offices?" is near the top of the list for law firms. And the longer this goes on, the more pressing that question becomes. That's why we've assembled real estate experts and law firm leaders to discuss and debate the merits of physical office space at a time when working from home is largely, well…working. Today at 11 a.m. EST, we'll be sending a series of questions from our @lawdotcom Twitter account with leading experts weighing in live. The experts will also be answering questions from readers that are sent in as the conversation unfolds. Meanwhile, over at @GlobeStcom, real estate experts will be doing the same. They'll weigh in on what changes to the office market are expected and what trends they're seeing in the industry.  Come join us on Twitter, where you can follow us here and join the conversation by adding the hashtag #DoWeNeedOffices to your tweet.

A LONG WAY TO GO - As we recently discussed in this space, women have been making progress infiltrating the boys' club that traditionally has been MDL leadership. A lack of ethnic diversity among those roles, however, continues to be a major problem. Data gathered by Law.com shows very little movement on that front: only 5% of appointments, on average, went to lawyers who identified as "nonwhite" in MDLs created from 2016 through 2019. About 4% of attorneys, on average, had undetermined ethnicity in the data, but, even when accounting for that factor, 91% were white. Amanda Bronstad spoke with practitioners about why change continues to be so sluggish and how attorneys and judges might be able to accelerate it.

SPORTS COMPLICATED - A battle between the entity that previously owned Sports Illustrated and the one that now holds the rights to publish it is intensifying. Cooley and Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit Monday in Delaware District Court on behalf of magazine publisher Meredith Corp. The suit pursues claims against Seattle-based media startup theMaven Inc. in connection with an agreement to transition production of Sports Illustrated following its sale by Meredith to a new owner. Lawyers have not yet appeared for the defense (get it? Like sports?). Read the full complaint and stay up to date on major litigation nationwide with Law.com's Legal Radar.


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