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Settle or Fight: Why Google Bent on Ad Sales but Is Standing Tough on 'Neighboring Rights'

The search engine giant's most-recent scuffles with the French Competition Authority speak volumes about what it is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to protect.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Innovative Operations Team of the Year, Law Firm: Berry Appleman & Leiden

"An innovative legal department means having good relationships and partnerships between the technology side and the legal side, so we can develop synergy between those two seemingly disparate types of personalities," says Berry Appleman & Leiden's Chanille Juneau.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

'Arrogant' and 'Tone Deaf': Morgan Stanley CLO's Return-to-Work Stance Draws Ire

A letter from Morgan Stanley's CLO Eric Grossman to outside counsel expressed an expectation to see lawyers back in their offices, adding that the bank won't accommodate Zoom technology in "critical meetings", and arguing that "firms that return to the office will have a significant performance advantage over those that do not".
7 minute read

Legaltech News

An Expiring CARES Act Exemption Leaves Judges Navigating Public Access Challenges

The CARES Act exemption waiving videoconferencing and teleconferencing prohibitions will eventually expire. But federal judges are already finding ways to keep remote courts alive, without restricting public access.
4 minute read

Law.com

Why Higher Salaries Alone Don't Equal Happier—or More Diverse—Associates

This week's episode of Law.com's Legal Speak podcast features a conversation with Caren Ulrich Stacy, founder and CEO of Diversity Lab, about the associate salary war's impact on law firm diversity and young lawyer retention in general.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'Our Profession Cannot Long Endure a Remote Work Model,' Morgan Stanley CLO Tells Law Firms

"I strongly believe that firms that return to the office will have a significant performance advantage over those that do not," CLO Eric Grossman wrote in a letter to Morgan Stanley's outside law firms.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Tech Problems Delay Avenatti Trial Opening Amid Pandemic Jury Pool Splitting

The snafu is a procedural one, but it encompasses issues Avenatti's lawyer, H. Dean Steward, raised about the constitutionality of the jury selection process that could arise again in an appeal should Avenatti be convicted.
6 minute read

Law.com

'Treating People Like Adults' and Remote Work

Policies over office attendance might become subject to the same herd behavior we see around salaries
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Legal Tech Can't Blame the Broader Legal Industry for All Its Diversity Woes

From significant risk aversion to underwhelming pipelines of diverse venture capitalists and law firm professionals, legal tech's diversity is hindered by myriad issues.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Inflexible Law Firms Should Brace for an Associate Exodus This Fall, Recruiters Say

Many associates are waiting to see what the return to the office looks like come September.
4 minute read

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