Undermined case A solicitor who lied to a client to “buy herself some time” has agreed she should be struck off the roll. Laura Elizabeth Simpson, admitted in 2009 and formerly with national outfit Switalskis, admitted she “chickened out” of telling the truth when an expert report undermined her client’s case. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal […]
They Can’t Even Prosecute A Sandwich!: Grand jurors weren’t too keen on imprisoning a man for throwing lunch. Employees Get Work Off Because Your Favorite English And Gym Teachers Are Getting Married: Truly a reason for celebration! Mental Health And Product Liability: A teenage suicide puts the spotlight on who is responsible for following ChatGPT’s […]
Justice Jackson recently called out the conservative majority of the Supreme Court specifically — and GOP jurisprudence generally — as “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.” Citing the fictional sport from the watershed comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, Jackson wrote “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that […]
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What’s with all of these soft ass assault charges? Before headlines were focused on an errant Subway sandwich hitting an officer’s uniform, a woman was arrested and charged with assault for actions that followed an attempt to move men accused of gang activity. Sounds fancy, right? A lot of fluff to pad what actually happened […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data from the Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group, how much are profits per equity partner up in the AmLaw 200? Hint: The six-month survey showed a strong performance in Biglaw (thanks billable rate hikes), despite expenses growth of 9.5%. See the […]
I recently finished reading Ethan Mollick‘s excellent book on artificial intelligence, entitled Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. He does a great job of explaining what it is, how it works, how it best can be used, and where it may be headed. Having thought a lot about AI’s potential impact on law, three insights […]
What happened here [an Irwin Mitchell senior associate getting caught misrepresenting billable hours, who was ultimately banned from the profession by U.K. regulators] is not as extraordinary as it may sound. The practice of inflating hours—at least to some extent—is widely accepted. After all, if you divide annual targets such as 2,000 or even 2,400 […]
I started writing for Above the Law in 2018. Almost immediately I began to get intensely pressured about the contents of my columns, not from anyone within ATL, but from the partnership at the law firm where I was then employed. My God, what if someone realized their lawyer wasn’t the intellectual equivalent of a […]
Tiffany Monroe is going viral for all the right reasons. The Chief People & Culture Officer at the tax preparation company H&R Block — and a Pepperdine Law graduate — demonstrated pop culture savvy, a keen insight into human nature, and some good old-fashioned newsjacking. Yesterday the internet — nah, the nation — was abuzz […]
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