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The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

If I am representing a client for estate planning, can I accept a referral fee from an insurance agent or an investment company I have worked with in the past for referring the estate business?
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Will Law Firms Bow to Pressure to End Mandatory Arbitration?

More and more voices are calling for big law firms to abandon mandatory arbitration and nondisclosure agreements for their own lawyers. Should the firms listen?
13 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Five Types of Connections You Should Develop in Your Legal Network

The commencement speaker when you graduated from law school inevitably highlighted members of the audience who supported the graduates during school, and would provide continued support while the graduates studied for the bar exam and began their careers.
6 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Self-Dealing Conduct Supporting Fiduciary-Duty Claims Was Covered by Contractual Duties Imposed in the LLC Agreement

The Delaware Limited Liability Company Act's policy is to give the maximum effect to the principle of freedom of contract in LLC operating agreements.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Implicit Bias Training: Helpful Training Tool or Corporate Fad?

Employers—particularly human resources professionals and in-house employment lawyers—have long battled bias in hiring and other employment decisions. Employers have many tools at their disposal, such as anti-discrimination policies, employee handbooks and various trainings.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

ABA 'Furiously Working' to Craft Proposal on Lawyers' Mental Health

Ahead of the American Bar Association's annual meeting this summer, an ABA working group is debating a proposed resolution to help lawyers and law firms deal with problems of mental illness and impairment.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Ninth Circuit Adopts #MeToo Recommendations Against Sexual Harassment

The chief judge said the goal is to make policies and procedures more accessible, understandable and effective.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Three-Letter Word Lawyers Should Avoid Using

When was the last time a single word determined your future? As a lawyer, you're probably attuned to the fact that it was pretty recent.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

JQC Cautioned Judge About Ethical Constraints Tied to Holding State Bar Post

Last year, the executive director of the state judicial watchdog agency issued informal guidelines to a South Georgia magistrate judge restricting some of her activities as president of the State Bar of Georgia's Young Lawyers Division that might violate the state Code of Judicial Conduct.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

ABA 'Furiously Working' to Craft Proposal on Lawyers' Mental Health

Ahead of the American Bar Association's annual meeting this summer, an ABA working group is debating a proposed resolution to help lawyers and law firms deal with problems of mental illness and impairment.
4 minute read

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