Karen Sloan

October 26, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

What will legal education look like in five or 10 years? It will be more internationally focused, rely more heavily on technology and will incorporate more leadership and businesses skills, if the influential group of about 100 educators and law leaders who met recently to discuss the matter are to be believed.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

April 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

The Project for Attorney Retention, part of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, has spent the past 10 years examining how lawyers and law firms can foster successful part-time working arrangements and prevent the stalled careers that many lawyers - particularly women - experience when they cut back on work hours.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

May 28, 2009 | Law.com

Long before President Obama thrust Sonia Sotomayor into the spotlight by nominating her for the U.S. Supreme Court, she was a corporate attorney with an interesting specialty: designer handbags. Fake designer handbags, to be exact. Sotomayor spent eight years at New York firm Pavia & Harcourt, where she represented Italian luxury goods retailer Fendi in its fight against knockoff handbags. Fendi was one of Sotomayor's major clients when she was an associate and later a partner specializing in IP litigation.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

February 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

February 04, 2010 | Law.com

In January, the U.S. Olympic Committee named attorney Scott Blackmun as its new chief executive officer. Blackmun recently left Denver firm Holme Roberts & Owen, where he started his legal career in 1982, and which he rejoined in 2006 after stints with the USOC and Anschutz Entertainment Group, where he was chief operative officer. The National Law Journal spoke with Blackmun about his new job, the USOC's problems, the upcoming Vancouver games and what he'll miss about private practice.

By Karen Sloan

6 minute read

February 02, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Is the Law School Admissions Test the best way to gauge who will succeed in law school, or is it a barrier to diversity in the legal profession and a far too influential ­component of the rankings game?

By Karen Sloan

9 minute read

July 29, 2011 | Law.com

Phillip Closius, dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, resigned abruptly on July 29 at the request of university President Robert Bogomolny, according to a letter Closius e-mailed to the law school community.

By Karen Sloan

5 minute read

November 09, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Gregory Gallo has been spending less time at the airport lately. Instead of hopping on a plane for important meetings, the DLA Piper partner ducks into a high-tech conference room in the firm's East Palo Alto, Calif., office for a face-to-face with colleagues and clients hundreds or thousands of miles away.

By Karen Sloan

9 minute read

June 24, 2010 | National Law Journal

Two lawyers and a law student were among seven plaintiffs who filed suit on Wednesday to block the North Carolina Department of Revenue from collecting detailed information about purchases state residents made through Amazon.com.

By Karen Sloan

4 minute read

October 19, 2010 | Law.com

Pleas for more transparency about the cost of law school and the odds of finding a job after graduation have not fallen on deaf ears at the American Bar Association. President Steve Zack said that the organization is considering requiring law schools to disclose cost and employment statistics to all accepted applicants. And the committee that creates the annual questionnaire that law schools must fill out is examining what salary and employment questions should be included and how that information should be made public.

By Karen Sloan

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