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Daily Dicta: Why Michelle Obama Disliked Working at Sidley—and the Lessons That Still Apply

In her autobiography, Michelle Obama offers a dismal depiction of the three years she spent as an associate at Sidley Austin, in part because there were so few other minority lawyers at the firm. But she didn't just complain--she tried to change things.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Making Millennial Lawyers Happy: How to Attract, Retain This Group

Some firms are even embracing other facets of the new economy to keep attorneys happy: telecommuting, alternative fee structures and flex time, among others.
6 minute read

Law.com

Why Michelle Obama Disliked Working at Sidley—and the Lessons That Still Apply

One of the former First Lady's challenges was the isolating nature of the work. “I read memos. I wrote memos. I edited other people's memos.” But she said she had almost no contact with clients, and not much with other lawyers either.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

BAR REPORT - Lawyers Helping Lawyers Task Force Aims to Provide Resources, Guidance to Attorneys Facing a Medical Crisis

Task force formed by John E. Keefe Jr. aims to aid attorneys facing a medical crisis
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Busy Women Lawyers Are Freezing Eggs and Embryos to Manage Careers

Jacqueline Klosek, a New Jersey resident and counsel to Goodwin Procter's business law department in New York, said, "it would have been really hard to get the career off track and assume I could get it back on.”
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I am a young attorney and I don't understand the difference between the confidentiality rules and the Attorney-Client Privilege Rules and the Work Product Doctrine. What is the difference?
10 minute read

The Recorder

A Guide to the Barriers to and Benefits of Getting Lawyers Mental Health Support

It should come as no surprise then that when some attorneys begin noticing the symptoms of a mental health illness—a sudden increased level of anxiety, trouble getting out of bed every morning, difficulty with drugs or alcohol—they often try to hide the problem before it becomes known to and exploitable by anyone else.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Busy Lawyers Are Freezing Their Eggs to Focus on Their Careers

Goodwin Procter counsel Jacqueline Klosek's son was born from a frozen embryo. 'To have missed that because I waited too long would have been really hard to accept.'
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lawyers, Increasingly Busy With Billable Hours, Look to Delay Childbearing by Freezing Embryos and Eggs

'Thinking that I could not have my son, I couldn't even think about that,' says Jacqueline Klosek, counsel to Goodwin Procter, whose son Luca was born from a frozen embryo. 'To have missed that because I waited too long would have been really hard to accept.'
7 minute read

Law.com

Busy Women Lawyers Are Freezing Eggs and Embryos to Manage Careers

"Thinking that I could not have my son, I couldn't even think about that,' says Jacqueline Klosek, counsel to Goodwin Procter, whose son Luca was born from a frozen embryo. "To have missed that because I waited too long would have been really hard to accept."
7 minute read

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