Vanessa Blum
Vanessa is ALM's Vice President of Legal Product Innovation and executive editor of Law.com Radar. Contact Vanessa at [email protected]. On Twitter: @vanessablum.
July 30, 2018 | Law.com
The Double-Barreled Bias Against Black Women LawyersThe Careerist Vivia Chen talks to Michele Coleman Mayes, a leader in the legal profession, where less than 1 percent of partners in major law firms are black women.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
July 20, 2018 | Law.com
Is Your Law Firm Making You Flabby? Now Hear This.Even small changes in daily routines lead to better health. And when that happens, lawyers—and their firms—reap the benefits.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum
1 minute read
July 13, 2018 | Law.com
Oyez! A Former SG Dishes on Kavanaugh, Kennedy and a Changing CourtMunger, Tolles & Olson partner Donald Verrilli Jr. chats with Supreme Court correspondent Marcia Coyle about the Supreme Court term and the battle lines around President Trump's nominee.
By Vanessa Blum | Mike Scarcella
1 minute read
July 13, 2018 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: This Defense Dream Team Is on a Roll Fighting for EmployersIn a span of less than two weeks, Orrick partners Lynne Hermle and Jessica Perry defeated class certification in closely watched gender bias cases against Microsoft and Twitter.
By Erin Mulvaney
6 minute read
July 06, 2018 | The Recorder
In-House Q&A: Robinhood's Adele Faure on New Tech, Old Regs and Life as a 'Crypto Nerd'"The more regulatory framework that comes to this space, the better the entire ecosystem will be," says Faure, assistant general counsel at the Palo Alto financial services firm.
By Caroline Spiezio
6 minute read
July 06, 2018 | Law.com
Watch Your Back, Counselor! It's the Law Firm ThreatdownFrom the Big 4 to rivals next door, our latest Legal Speak podcast investigates the biggest threats to law firms in the modern legal economy.
By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones
2 minute read
July 02, 2018 | Litigation Daily
Law Firm Loses Bid to Force Yelp to Remove Bad Review"With this decision, online publishers in California can be assured that they cannot be lawfully forced to remove third-party speech through enterprising abuses of the legal system, and those of us that use such platforms to express ourselves cannot be easily silenced through such tactics either," Yelp deputy general counsel Aaron Schur said in a blog post.
By Cheryl Miller
1 minute read
June 29, 2018 | Law.com
The NLJ 500 Deconstructed: Exploring the 2018 Law Firm RankingsThe National Law Journal Editor-in-Chief Lisa Helem dives into the details of the annual ranking of the country's 500 largest law firms by headcount.
By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones
1 minute read
June 26, 2018 | Law.com
A Better Way to Pitch for BusinessWhat truly stands out in today's competitive market? Hint: It's not about legal bona fides or your resume.
By Alexander Geisler
6 minute read
June 22, 2018 | Law.com
'Every Case Is a Possibility': Winston's Abbe Lowell on a Career Defending Powerful Clients"In litigation and trials, a lawyer's job is really to quiet the noise, to uncover the core of what the facts are, and to make sure the jury doesn't get sidetracked by things which aren't really the case."
By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones
2 minute read
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