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The American Lawyer

To All the Single Ladies

Women, even ones in the most selective professional programs, prioritize marriage over career, and will downplay their ambitions to achieve that goal.
7 minute read

International Edition

Treating Meeting Addiction: How a Legal Team Cut Back on Meetings—and Found Happiness

The team of lawyers, from Herbert Smith Freehills and Australia's Telstra Corp., cut back on unnecessary meetings, freeing them up to do actual work.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Photos of Lawyers and Judges Outside the Courtroom

From the Boston Marathon to announcing plans for Atlanta the nation's women judges and, as always, mentoring young people through fundraising and awards for scholars, the legal community was out in force this spring.
1 minute read

The American Lawyer

Allen & Overy Drops Performance Reviews, and Everyone Cheers (Especially Women)

 Anyone who says that performance reviews are useful is full of it. Really, who comes out of a review feeling the least bit enlightened…
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

We're Ladies, We Lunch and We Like It

At the Central Park Women's Committee hat luncheon last week, the women at my table (lawyers and business executives) want you to know that they deserve respect.
17 minute read

The American Lawyer

When Firm Life Makes Them Flabby, Lawyers Call This Trainer

Personal trainer Jonathan Jordan's clients include attorneys from Big Law offices, who come to him with loose glutes, collapsed cores and hunched shoulders from sitting for long periods.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

Say Cheese! Big-Law Partner's Instagram Feed Captures Life in the Tasty Lane

Robert Darwell's TheDailyServer is a tribute to waiters, waitresses and bartenders, and all multitaskers whom the Sheppard Mullin partner admires.
15 minute read

The American Lawyer

Do Women Really Choose the Pink Ghetto?

Are women opting for those lower-paying practices or is there an invisible hand that steers them there?
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Coffey Burlington: The Luckiest Law Firm in Town

Jim Burlington, office systems manager at Miami's Coffey Burlington, made travel plans for Monday. He needed to be in Tallahassee to pick up $1 million in winnings on a Florida lottery scratch-off ticket. But that's not a first for the lucky litigation boutique.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Cross-examination: Insight on the similar skills shared by an equestrian, doctor and lawyer

By | April 24, 2017
State bar member discusses equestrian, doctor and lawyer connection
9 minute read

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