It’s a competitive world out there in Big Law – and promoting the right “culture” can be a task bigger than even Horatio might accomplish. It’s just a big ask at Big Law. But why exactly are the big firms so darn miserable, so unpleasant, so damn toxic? It’s a question asked by Law360 who
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The demise of Jutice Antonin Scalia has lead to a major and tense standoff with the proposed renamiing of the George Mason University Law School. The confrontation over the issue has arisen between professors who want to make the move and outside academics who are reportedly offended by the rebranding exercise linking the school to
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Tired of doing debt deals, real estate financing or bankruptcy notifications? Then try fashion law. Take an example from our friends at the Miami Herald who have written about Traurig shareholder Danielle Garno who is using the growing fasion sector in Miami to grow a ‘fashion practice’. Garno is specializing in industry issues such as the Foreign Corrupt
LSAT teacher Ben Olsen writes in the Thinking LSAT blog about that big question: Are law schools responsible as to whether you get a law job or not? Well . . depends. Many promise such, but as Ben Olsen writes: David, a listener who graduated in 2006 with a degree in civil engineering, asks about his
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We love stories about job interviews, because after all it’s central to so much about the life of the young lawyer. So when we read in Forbes about what kills a job interview, from contributor Liz Ryan, the CEO and founder of Human Workplace. We knew there was going to be blood. Somewhere. And she spills the beans,
William Henderson* My previous post excerpted the introduction “How to Solve the Legal Profession’s Diversity Problem.” The article suggests that our diversity challenges are rooted in a systems problem. First, our systems for selecting and developing lawyers is seldom grounded in science. Second, the functioning of these systems are seldom viewed as critical to organizational
The widely anticipated US & World Report Law School rankings have been leaked to law blog SpiveyConsulting, showing the top 100. The US & World Report would not confirm the accuracy of the results, but they are almost certainly the correct rankings, barring some minor adjustments. AbovetheLaw, who reported the Spivey figures noted that among the
Choosing law school is something many lawyers – or aspiring lawyers – do as an almost knee-jerk reaction to their vaguely formed opinions as to what it must be like to be Harvey Specter in “Suits”, or perhaps Ally McBeal. However, the problem is that the right questions are frequently remaining unasked. The questions that
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It’s a serious ‘bear’ market for law schools, it seems, if the current trends in the US are anything to go by. And the finger is being pointed at “less capable” law students entering law school. There has been a record-breaking drop in the average scores for bar exam multiple choice section passes, according to
Are there really too many law schools? Well, yes, actually and this month the ABA accredited another at Concordia University, taking the number beyond 200 in the US. But even the ABA are questioning whether this list should be expanded given that 10 US law schools were unable to place more than 30 per cent
