Karen Sloan

June 15, 2010 | Law.com

Nearly one year in, partners -- and participating associates -- at three law firms that started apprenticeship programs are pleased with the benefits of more extensive training. But so far, the new model has not caught on with any firm that isn't either litigation-focused or regional in scope.

By Karen Sloan

9 minute read

March 04, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Attorney mentoring programs are a dime a dozen, but the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity hopes to break the mold by singling out up-and-coming attorneys and placing them in the direct path of law firm managing partners and the general counsel of some of the country's largest companies.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

June 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Richard Sander, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, since 2006 has been pushing the State Bar of California to release detailed data on the academic records, bar exam results and ethnicities of candidates for admission to practice. Sander hopes to use that information to study the effects of law school affirmative action policies on minority attorneys. Sander has published controversial research in the past concluding that affirmative action at elite institutions hurts minorities because they face academic disadvantages.

By Karen Sloan

8 minute read

June 03, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Barely a week after a blind man filed suit alleging that the American Bar Association essentially requires a discriminatory test, a would-be LSAT taker with attention deficit disorder has sued the Law School Admission Council, which administers the exam.

By Karen Sloan

3 minute read

September 30, 2009 | Law.com

The estate of author James Joyce has agreed to pay $240,000 in legal costs incurred by a Stanford University scholar following a fair use legal battle over a book about Joyce's daughter. The settlement ends more than a decade of wrangling and brings to a close one of the more prominent academic fair use cases in recent years, which garnered interest partly due to the Joyce estate's aggressive approach to protecting copyrighted material.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

May 20, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Across the country, labor and employment lawyers are scrambling to prepare their clients to comply with new regulations, effective on May 24, that implement major changes to the Americans With Disabilities Act

By Karen Sloan

8 minute read

May 07, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Some of the most powerful attorneys in the country gathered Wednesday to discuss a matter that has long plagued the legal profession: diversity, or the lack thereof. The meeting marked the incorporation of an organization of law firm managing partners and general counsel, with the goal of advancing the Call to Action -- the landmark 2004 document signed by GCs at many of the largest companies in the U.S. calling for greater commitment to diversity within legal departments.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

February 01, 2011 | National Law Journal

Mohamed ElBaradei is widely seen as the leader of the growing movement to unseat Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, but back in the 1980s he served in a humbler position, as an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law while holding down a day job at the United Nations.

By Karen Sloan

2 minute read

August 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

A year ago, as the economy began its freefall, corporate law departments were preparing for an all-out assault by plaintiffs. Some 34 percent of in-house counsel polled as part of Fulbright & Jaworski's annual Litigation Trends Survey said they expected to face more suits against their companies in the coming 12 months?a significantly higher percentage than in the previous year. That result made sense: Recessions usually breed litigation. But the early numbers for this recession are showing something quite different.

By Karen Sloan

9 minute read

December 08, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

It is a story ripped from tabloid headlines. Anthony Ottaviano, a litigator with New York-based Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, was murdered in Philadelphia on Monday by a man stalking his girlfriend, a former Ivy League student moonlighting as a dominatrix.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read