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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

The American Lawyer

As Industry Looks to Washington, US Steel's General Counsel is Stepping Down

Folsom played major roles in legal departments at AIG and Academi, before moving to U.S. Steel in 2014.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

NYT Fires Boies: 'We Should Have Been Treated Better'

The New York Times said late Tuesday that it had ended its relationship with David Boies and his firm after new details emerged about Boies' work for Harvey Weinstein.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Ropes & Gray DQ'd in Calif. Case After Ignoring Client Ultimatum

"An attorney cannot just ignore his or her client and then assume that the client terminated the relationship," U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Corley wrote in an order disqualifying Ropes & Gray from a false advertising suit.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

After Key Departures in DC, Crowell, Wilson Sonsini Add Hires

In the wake of high-level departures, Crowell picked up a government contracts pro from Wiley Rein, while Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati nabbed a CFIUS expert from Steptoe & Johnson.
31 minute read

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