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  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Top-Down Diversity: The Role of Management, the Client and the Bench

    By Jacklyn Fetbroyt | June 27, 2017

    Diversity and inclusion are so often discussed in the business world that they are becoming buzz words. Unfortunately, in the legal profession, the "buzz" seems to be just that: noise. Law firms and the legal profession, generally, are notoriously ­stagnant (and even falling behind) in diversity.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Proposed Amendment to Rule 8.4: How Will It Impact Diversity and Inclusion

    By Natalie Klyashtorny | June 27, 2017

    At its August 2016 annual meeting, the American Bar Association passed a resolution that amended 8.4 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make it an ethical violation for an attorney to "engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law."

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Breaking the Courtroom Glass Ceiling

    By Meghan Rohling Kelly | June 27, 2017

    For the last 20 years, approximately half of all law school graduates have been women. Yet, as has been widely reported, women only make up slightly more than 20 percent of the partnership at major law firms, with even fewer women becoming equity partners.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Implicit Bias: The Best Ways to Combat It

    By Beth A. Slagle | June 27, 2017

    We all understand what explicit biases aremdash;they are the biases that we have that we know about. They are conscious and largely controllable. Implicit bias, unlike explicit bias, is more complex and refers to our attitudes or stereotypes that we have about a person or a group but that reside in our subconscious. These biases affect the way we act and react, but all in an unconscious manner.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    2017 Roundtable Discussion on Diversity Issues

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 27, 2017

    The editorial staff of The Legal Intelligencer recognizes diversity as a continuing concern in the legal community. This is our biannual discussion, an attempt to propose concrete solutions for the issues the legal profession faces in recruiting, hiring and retaining minority attorneys.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    People in the News–June 28, 2017–High Swartz

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 27, 2017

    High Swartz partner James B. Shrimp was installed as president of the Rotary Club of Central Chester County, located in Lionville/Exton.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Support Order Based on Evidence Outside of Record Vacated

    By Michael E. Bertin | June 27, 2017

    Within the last five years, the issue of evidence outside of the record being considered by the trial court was raised in an appeal from a custody order in CMP v. MP, 54 A.3 950 (Pa. Super. 212)). Recently, the case of Johnson v. Johnson, 153 A.3 318 (Pa. Super. 2016), was decided and the vacating and remanding of the order was based on a similar reasoning.

  • The American Lawyer

    Ransomware Attack on DLA Piper Puts Law Firms, Clients on Red Alert

    By Roy Strom | June 27, 2017

    The implications of network-crippling malware may be just as damaging for a deadline-driven service industry that holds the fate of companies' legal issues in its palm.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    A Lesson in Arbitrability: When Is It Necessary?

    By Charles F. Forer | June 27, 2017

    Bob's client Ray was the former ­president of an international ­company located in Texas. The company filed an arbitration demand in Texas. It asserted that Ray—as president—had ­engaged in all sorts of misconduct, ­including excessive personal expenditures and ­improper contracting practices.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Diversity

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 27, 2017

    In the Legal's Diversity supplement, read about ways to combat implicit bias, the role of management in top-down diversity efforts and check out our roundtable discussion.

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