(Image via Getty) Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Jaclyn S. Alcantara back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. The theme of the MothersEsquire National Conference, which will be held […]
Share We are expecting one or more opinions from the court this morning. Join us for the live blog and on TikTok at 9:45 a.m. EDT. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Mexican family asks Supreme Court for deportation […]
Share On Thursday, April 17, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. The post Announcement of opinions for Thursday, April 17 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
Open University student withdraws case after receiving written assurances from the union about adherence to picketing rules A Birmingham law student came within hours of facing one of the UK’s largest unions in court over the ongoing bin workers’ strike, which has left the city strewn with rubbish. Mr R. Heart, 34, threatened Unite the […]
Resisting Firms Are Winning Bigly!: Not only is this the 4th firm to win a TRO, the judge sends their compliments! Reed Smith Nixes Their Diversity Program To Avoid The EEOC: Weird, that was kind of their thing for the last decade or so. Sometimes, Good Advocacy Means Departure: Associates jump ship from Kirkland, Latham. […]
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty) In February, President Trump summoned the nation’s governors to the White House for an airing of grievances. As usual, the tiny number of trans athletes topped the list. “Is Maine here?” he asked, before yelling at Governor Janet Mills for refusing to bench trans kids. “I’m complying with the state and […]
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) They thought they made one-shot deals which they would fulfill, but the administration seems to think that they have subjected these firms to indentured servitude. — Professor Harold Hongju Koh, of Yale Law School in a New York Times article about the growing gap between the deals that surrendering law […]
Reed Smith, long recognized as a Gold Standard Firm by the Women In Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), has done away with all of the diversity shit it professed as near and dear to its heart for the last decade or so. I’d link you to them bragging about how important diversity is to them, but […]
Legal Services NYC has quietly scrubbed references to its diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging commitments from its public-facing website. The move, announced internally via email on Tuesday, marks the latest in a growing line of DEI retreats across the legal industry. But this time, it’s not Biglaw chickening out, it’s a nonprofit built to serve […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to the data collected by ALM, what is the total gross revenue for the Am Law 100 firms? Hint: Revenue was up 13.3% year over year. See the answer on the next page. The post Biglaw Is Big Business appeared first on […]
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