Today most attorneys still have archaic organizational methods. Every email they send and receive is printed out and placed manually in a folder. Unfortunately, these firms are still living in the 20th century, with an office buried in piles of books crowding the entryway. This is inconceivable in a wireless modern world. Most law firms
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What should millennials – lawyers included, obviously – expect in 2017? the fact is the mixed messages coming from employers can be distressing to job seekers who are told that robots will soon be handling more complex legal work and that there is still demand for those with key skills. Forbes contributor Caroline Beaton, who
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President Obama, once president of the Harvard Law Review, has now published an article in the Review on criminal justice reform. The proposal for the article reportedly came from Harvard law dean Martha Minow, according to reports in Law.com, the Harvard Crimson and Politico. “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform” said his administration made progress in reforming
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Leading Tax Attorney Gregory Roberts Joins Nationally Renowned State Tax Team NEW YORK (January 5, 2017) – Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Gregory Roberts as a partner in the firm’s State Tax Group in New York. Roberts was most recently a partner at Morrison & Foerster. Reed Smith’s New York office has
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Some of the greatest comeback stories in history, involve an athlete who persevered after suffering a serious injury, only to find themselves in an exciting new career as a coach, trainer or sportscaster. When it happens in professional sports, it is looked at as a successful transition; somehow when it pertains to an average
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Forbes have released their “30 Under 30” list, featuring lawyers who have made – or will make their mark in the legal arena. Among the list are lawyers who you may well not have yet heard of but who are making their mark in the magazine’s “Law and Policy” list. The llistees: Adina Appelbaum (pictured) who launched
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News that Chinese hackers had breached law firm security to secure highly sensitive data shows that law firms remain highly exposed to such attacks. Many major UK and US law firms have increased their cyber security vigilance, but many also remain highly vulnerable as recent reports on cyber security have shown. A survey last year
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Iat Hong Arrested On December 25 In Hong Kong On U.S. Insider Trading And Hacking Charges In Addition To Successful Cyber Intrusions Into Two Law Firms, Defendants Charged With Attempting To Hack Into Total Of Seven Law Firms Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney
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Recent moves by the UN over Israel’s West Bank settlements and President Obama’s overall approach to the country could be “nuked” by a bankruptcy lawyer Donald Trump is suggesting as ambassador. Bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman is both intensely pro-Israel but – more significantly against the two-state “solution” and in favor of Israel’s development of settlements
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Donald Trump’s election and its impact on the Supreme Court will be one of the legacies that may ultimately have the greatest effect on the country he is to shortly govern. In an article to be published in January by the ABA Journal, “Trump’s Court: How will the next president shape the Supreme Court?” by
