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Promoting 'Comfortable Diversity' Can Impact Firms' Bottom Lines

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Chanel T. Rowe, of Johnson & Johnson, shares why she thinks promoting "comfortable diversity" can improve firms' bottom lines and how she's helping level the legal playing field.
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Delaware Law Weekly

Maron Marvel Delaware Member Leads Women's Networking Lunch

Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy member Antoinette Hubbard served as a panelist for the women's networking lunch at Perrin Conferences' Cutting-Edge Issues in Asbestos Litigation Conference in Miami, Florida, on March 12.
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International Edition

'He Will Never Get Instructions From Me': Lawyers React to Garrick Club Revelations

An open letter earlier this week called on all judges that are part of the private members club to resign their membership with immediate effect.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

A 5th Lawyer From This Florida Firm Could Become Judge

"I'm very optimistic that she could be confirmed this summer, as early as June," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond who is an expert on federal judicial selections.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

TyShawn Jackson Challenges Judge Ana Martinez in DeKalb Election

Both candidates have more than a decade of experience linked to DeKalb County courts and legal offices.
12 minute read

Law.com

Veteran Lawyer Resigns in Lieu of Discipline for Using Racist, Sexist Language Against Clients, Female Attorneys

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Washington State Bar Association outlined four instances in which Nicholas George allegedly engaged in misconduct from instances involving conflicts of interest with his clients to using a client's information to her disadvantage after withdrawing as her counsel to using prejudicial language to describing a prosecutor as a "dumb bitch."
4 minute read

Law.com

A Pioneer Amid Adversity, Kellye Testy Leads by Example

Despite having to fight off implicit bias and the challenges that come with that, Testy said the rewarding part was that so many women alums and women students were rooting for her.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Women of Legal Tech: 'Every Failure Is an Opportunity,' Says Kirkland's Valerie Pennacchio

Valerie Pennacchio, Practice Innovation Advisor at Kirkland & Ellis, discusses the role mentorship plays in combatting sexism in the workplace, the surprising amount of candor around legal technology among peer law firms, and how she came to realize that her current job is the table she wants to be at.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Financier Accused of 'Sham Pleading' in Miami Ahead of Decision on Sale of Premier League Team

The league, which can decide who is a "fit and proper steward," is mulling its approval of the sale of the Everton Football Club.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Appellate Judge Named to Blue-Ribbon Committee on Women in Law

In announcing Appellate Division, First Department Justice Llinét Rosado for the role, which takes effect immediately, and coincides with Women's History Month, Chief Judge Rowan Wilson said Rosado joins "trailblazing" retired Judge Betty Weinberg Ellerin, senior counsel at Alston & Bird.
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