Karen Sloan

August 28, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A year ago, as the economy began its freefall, corporate law departments were preparing for an all-out assault by plaintiffs. But the early numbers for this recession are showing something quite different: that litigation isn't really all that more active than it was before the bottom fell out.

By Karen Sloan

6 minute read

August 05, 2009 | Daily Business Review

School administrators say unusually large tuition hikes for the coming academic year are largely spurred by cuts in public funding - with endowment losses, initiatives to improve their schools and pressure to keep up with competing institutions also playing a part.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

October 15, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Want to know how many women or minority lawyers work at law firms or are law students? Plenty of groups can provide that information. But when it comes to the number of attorneys and aspiring attorneys with disabilities, the picture is far less clear because few groups collect that information. Advocates say that is one reason why efforts to increase their presence have lagged behind pushes to boost the number of women and minorities.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

June 15, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Karen Sloan

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March 30, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Karen Sloan

6 minute read

July 06, 2011 | New York Law Journal

The American Bar Association's Commission on Ethics 20/20 caused a minor stir last fall when it launched a study into the ethics of online client development tools including Facebook. The commission on June 29 released its conclusions, and they are hardly drastic. Rather than develop a new set of proposed rules pertaining specifically to online advertising, the commission recommended several relatively minor clarifications to the existing rules.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

April 03, 2009 | The Recorder

A unique legal job fair has been organized in response to the concerns about firms' public interest programs for deferred incoming associates.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

December 17, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Make no mistake: "A Law School Carol" is no heartwarming holiday tale of redemption.

By Karen Sloan

12 minute read

August 05, 2010 | New York Law Journal

According to new reports released last week by both NERA Economic Consulting and the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, federal securities class actions filings during the first half of 2010 were down compared to one year ago. "We have an inventory of cases waiting to be dismissed, settled or tried but, to borrow a phrase from the current Gulf oil spill crisis, it seems that this flow has largely been capped," said Stanford Law professor Joseph Grundfest, director of the school's Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.

By Karen Sloan | The National Law Journal

3 minute read

February 01, 2011 | Law.com

Is the Law School Admissions Test the best way to gauge who will succeed in law school, or is it a barrier to diversity that is too heavily weighted in the rankings game? That long-simmering debate has been reignited with news that the test could become voluntary for law school accreditation.

By Karen Sloan

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