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by Angela Morris (ABA Journal, June 2018) Like many things these days, it all started with a tweet. On March 24, Harvard Law School lecturer Ian Samuel tweeted out select provisions of a leaked copy of a mandatory arbitration agreement from Munger, Tolles & Olson. According to the tweets, summer associates working for the firm …
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Although she spent the first six years of her career in Big Law, California attorney Dorna Moini always knew that her true passion was in human rights and access to justice. After graduating from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2012, Moini, who has dual citizenship in the United States and …
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Many law firms support LGBT equality by donating money or doing cases pro bono. But one firm has taken it to a higher level—16 stories, to be exact. Nixon Peabody has donated 2,300 square feet of its 16th floor San Francisco office and partnered with StartOut, a nonprofit LGBT business accelerator, to launch the StartOut …
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Hey companies, want to avoid litigation? Hire a lawyer as CEO. Want to make bold moves? Look elsewhere. In recently published research about how lawyer CEOs differ from nonlawyer CEOs, law professor M. Todd Henderson and colleagues sifted through data on 3,500 CEOs at nearly 2,400 publicly traded companies over a 20-year span. The researchers found …
Continue reading “Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs? Yes! Er, Maybe.”
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Law firms in Texas need to change to address a crisis in the legal profession. As a follow-up to a shocking 2016 report showing that one in three lawyers are problem drinkers and one in four have depression, a national task force has made recommendations for law firms, judges, bar associations and law schools to …
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As general counsel of one of the country’s largest automakers, Sandra Phillips Rogers oversees very busy legal happenings every day, yet she always sets aside time for her passion: making the legal profession more diverse. At Toyota Motor North America Inc., Rogers has already built a diverse team of lawyers in her legal department. Her …
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Lawyers are used to filing paperwork in a pinch. But Mayer Brown partner Russell Nance was motivated like never before when armed state police raided his bourbon business, alleging he and his partners were running an illegal moonshine operation and committing a felony. Police gave them until the end of the week to secure a …
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He’s a senior partner at the firm—an accomplished, 50-year attorney and beloved mentor—who has begun to arrive late for court. He forgets key facts in cases. He dresses a little sloppily. He’s frequently impatient and quick to anger. It’s a scenario that’s becoming more common as baby boomers enter retirement age. The normal reaction from …
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This article originally published in Texas Lawyer magazine on April 4. When John Gilluly started practicing law in Austin in 1998, the city’s legal market lived and breathed real estate, government and practices surrounding those areas. But everything was changing. The growth of the city’s technology sector in the dot-com boom of the late 1990s …
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This article published originally on law.com on Sept. 7, 2016. Lee DiFilippo earned hefty paychecks for 13 years as a corporate transactional attorney in Big Law and later as in-house counsel to a couple of corporations. But it wasn’t enough. “I was pushing paper for corporate America. I was paid a lot of money. But …
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