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What Can Law Firms And In-House Legal Departments Learn About Law Firm Diversity?

BigLaw / March 7, 2021

AbovetheLaw ran this article from Cadence Counsel’s David Lat, who spoke with a Fortune 500 company’s Legal Diversity Director to learn what they were doing about pioneering diversity strategies David Lat* In our recent conversation about Black History Month, my colleague Monique Burt Williams — CEO of Cadence Counsel, which focuses exclusively on the placement of

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Why Decorum Still Matters, Even In A ‘Zoom Court’

BigLaw / March 5, 2021

Ken Broda-Bahm At this point, I will wager that we’ve all seen the hilarious video from the 394th Judicial District Court of Texas, where an attorney, unable to remove a filter that changes his face into a cat’s, nonetheless confirms that he is prepared to go forward, and solemnly pledges to the court, “I am not a cat.”

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Litify Named by LawFuel, the Industry-Leading Legal Publication, as #1 in Practice Management Software for Law Firms, In-House Counsel, Government Entities and Nonprofits

Legal AI, Press Releases / March 5, 2021

Prestigious “top pick” ranking follows a year of explosive growth for Litify across law firms, in-house counsel, government entities and nonprofits NEW YORK, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Litify is proud to announce that it has been named as the best legal practice management software for 2021 by the leading legal publication LawFuel. Litify was founded with a mission to

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What Do Legal Professionals Expect To Be The Biggest Legal Tech Trends in 2021?

Legal AI / March 5, 2021

What are the biggest trends in legal tech in 2021? What are the types of technologies organizations planning on investing in? And what are the metrics we all might want to start measuring? Those are exactly the kinds of questions we asked top corporate legal leaders in a recent survey commissioned by Mitratech It revealed

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Tributes Flow For Former NZLS President and ‘Good, Kind Man’ Jonathan Temm

New Zealand Law News, NZ Featured Posts, Rankings / March 5, 2021

Tributes have flowed for former Law Society president Jonathan Temm, 58, who died this week. A Rotorua-based barrister who was appointed Queens’ Counsel in 2019, Jonathan Temm was a highly respected barrister and a popular member of the profession for his selflessness and humanity as much as for his service to the profession and his

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LawFuel’s 2020 New Zealand Lawyer of the Year

Headlining NZ, Rankings / March 5, 2021

Cassie Nicholson, LawFuel lawyer of the year 2020

Lawyer of the Year Sponsors LexisNexis New Zealand [adrotate banner=”140″] Staedtler – The pens successful lawyers use Cassie Nicholson – Legal First Responder Government legal counsel Cassie Nicholson, perhaps the key legal figure behind the mountain of legal work required to be climbed during the Covid-19 pandemic, is LawFuel’s Lawyer of the Year for 2020.

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‘Cutting Edge’ Cryptocurrency Scheme Just Fake, Says US Attorney As Executive Gets 8 Years Jail

Press Releases, US Law / March 4, 2021

Ilan T. Graff, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that SOHRAB SHARMA, a/k/a “Sam Sharma” was sentenced today to eight years in prison in connection with his leading role in a scheme to induce victims to invest more than $25 million worth of digital funds in

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“Tremendously Talented” Former Cravath Partner Johnny Skumpija Joins Sidley

Press Releases, US Law / March 3, 2021

Sidley Austin has taken on high profile former Cravath Capital Markets lawyer Johnny Skumpija in an announcement made today. The Sidley press release is below: New York – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Johnny Skumpija, a leading capital markets lawyer, has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Capital Markets

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UK Law Survey Shows COVID-19 Widens Gap Between City and Regional Law Firms

UK Law / March 3, 2021

The pandemic has created major changes and, in some cases, opportunities for the legal profession, but a UK survey indicates the gap between city and regional firms has grown The survey from Crowe showed a six per cent growth during the pandemic for the UK legal profession, but 40 per cent of law firms outside

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Did You Read This? – NZ Book Awards Go ‘Fully Woke’ Says Braunias

NZ Featured Posts, NZ Press Releases / March 3, 2021

BowPress.com- Newsroom’s Steve Braunias announces that the Ockham NZ Book Awards have gone ‘fully woke’ with the announcement of the contenders for the literary prize. Writing for Newsroom’s ReadingRoom, Braunias notes that New Zealand literaturehas long tried to be work and ‘made various woke noises’, but he notes thatthe recently announced 2021 Ockham New Zealand national book

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