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The American Lawyer

Percentage of New Women Partners Rising Slowly; Still Low Compared to Men

The number of women promoted to partner reached a six-year high in 2017, but women still only account for 38.1 percent of all new partners among top law firms, according to a new report.
35 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law Outpaces Big Biz for LGBTQ Equality

Law firms were more more likely than other big businesses to earn perfect scores on the Human Rights Campaign's latest survey of how employers treat their LGBT workforce.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Ex-Partners in Sex Bias Suit Can Review Chadbourne Leaders' Personal Emails

Resolving a discovery dispute in a $100 million gender discrimination case against Chadbourne & Parke, a magistrate judge allowed review of certain firm leaders' personal email accounts.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

GE Prepares to Vet Next Slate of Go-To Law Firms

How firms can win work from a general counsel who sets “value as his North Star and diversity as his passion.”
4 minute read

Law.com

Veterans Heading to Law Schools, With Nonprofit's Help

Service to School's applicants have made it into the highest-rated law schools in the nation, including Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Texas School of Law.
17 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ex-Partners in Sex Bias Suit Seek Chadbourne Leaders' Personal Emails

Lawyers for three former Chadbourne partners are asking to dig into the personal email accounts of the firm leaders named in a $100 million gender discrimination lawsuit.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

ABA Summit Examines Why Seasoned Women Are Leaving the Law

At a national summit hosted by the American Bar Association at Harvard Law School this week, law firm leaders and general counsel are beginning the conversation as to why women are leaving the legal profession in the latter part of their careers.
15 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Most In-House Law Departments Spend 'Inefficiently,' Study Says

The study from Acritas Research specified an ideal range for internal legal spend as a proportion of total spend.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Jones Day Seeks $446K in Fees From EEOC After 'Baseless Suit' Goes Nowhere

Jones Day lawyers are seeking hundreds of thousands in legal fees from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying federal regulators unfairly targeted CVS Pharmacy Inc. for alleged employment abuses that no judge sustained. Eric Dreiband, the lead partner for CVS in the litigation, is the Trump administration's pick to lead the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The dispute provides a peek into the billing practices of Jones Day.
5 minute read

International Edition

Locke Lord Hit With Record Fine for Failure to Prevent Former Partner's 'Dubious' Actions

The penalty is double the previous record fine, which was handed out to White & Case earlier this year for conflict and confidentiality failures.
3 minute read

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