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Meet the GC at the University of North Georgia: Jenna Colvin

The University of North Georgia's top lawyer, Dahlonega-based Jenna Colvin, talks with the Daily Report about everything from whom she turns to for outside counsel to what she does when she's not in the office.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

New Nonprofit Firm the First Founded by Baby Lawyers

Two recent law graduates in Houston have joined a national trend by launching a new nonprofit law firm to serve low- and middle-income clients.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Meet the GC at ExamSoft, Monica Berry

Monica Berry, the top (and only) lawyer at Dallas-based ExamSoft, talks with Texas Lawyer about everything from whom she uses for outside counsel to what she's been reading lately.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

How Boston Became a Beacon on the Hill to Big Law

As Boston undergoes a renaissance, law firms are being drawn to its shores, ready to capitalize on a booming market.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

John Marshall Professor Responds to Savannah Law Alum's 'Outburst'

The “ugly stepsister” insult denigrating that expertise—delivered by someone monumentally unqualified to make such a judgment and yet nevertheless blithely included in your article—should fall below your editorial standards.
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

MCLEs in Connecticut: Better Late Than Never

The Superior Court Rules Committee adopted MCLE in June 2016 to be effective Jan. 1, 2017, and its implementation in the intervening year has demonstrated unequivocally that the fear of—and opposition to—MCLE was completely unwarranted.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Ethics of E-Discovery, Part 2: Smarter—But Unethical—Clients

In Klipsch, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the Southern District of New York's order that even though “the likely valuation of actual damages” caused by the defendant's discovery violations was $25,000, the defendant additionally had to pay the plaintiff a total of $5 million as “compensation” for “discovery efforts” the plaintiff had to take solely because of the defendant's misconduct, as well as for “restraint … appropriate to secure” the plaintiff's “likely recovery of treble damages and attorney fees at the conclusion of the case.”
10 minute read

The Recorder

Judge Rules Against NCAA in Players' Antitrust Class Action, Sets December Trial

A group of student-athletes challenged the NCAA's limits on student-athlete scholarships as anti-competitive.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Balancing the Rights of School Districts in Wake of Shootings

In the wake of the latest rash of school shootings, as in all those which came before, rational minds question the general role of the public school system in preventing such attacks. Why didn't the school do more to prevent this tragedy? If this keeps happening, could it be the fault of the school system?
5 minute read

Law.com

Bar Pass Rate Bonanza: The 'Ultimate' Law School Rankings

Baylor University School of Law posted the highest ultimate bar pass rate—all 109 of its 2015 grads who took the bar passed over the span of two years. The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law had the lowest ultimate bar pass rate in 2015, at just under 57 percent.
3 minute read

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