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Lawyers Contribute Pro Bono Hours After Sutherland Springs Shooting
by Angela Morris (Texas Lawyer, November 2018) “I was processing the totality of it. I saw right then and there we were going to have family law issues, probate issues,” Wilson County Attorney Tom Caldwell recalled. “When I came home that night, I was so shook up by it, I told my wife I would …
Are law firms committed to disability diversity? A handful of firms have taken action
As the nation in October celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month, statistics show that the legal profession as a whole either isn’t doing its fair share to recruit, retain and advance attorneys with disabilities, or it has failed to be inclusive enough for disabled lawyers to feel comfortable disclosing their impairments. Many law firms state …
Could 80 percent of cases be resolved through online dispute resolution?
Perhaps in five to seven years, as Colin Rule sees it, half of U.S. citizens who file court cases will have access to online dispute resolution software walking them step by step through their matters, resolving up to 80 percent of cases. Rule, a nonlawyer mediator, is vice president for online dispute resolution at Tyler …
Women-Owned Law Firms Surge Amid Gender Disparity in the Profession
Work-life balance is often pegged as the reason women leave traditional law firms. But for the growing number of women establishing their own firms, their departure is often rooted more deeply in gender inequality in the profession than in raising children or having more free time. “If women were feeling valued, were getting properly rewarded …
‘Extreme Part-Time’ Lawyer-Moms Flock to Freelance Firms
After having her second child, Southern California litigator Erin Giglia worked part-time for law firm Snell & Wilmer, but fellow associate Laurie Rowen had different plans for work when her baby girl was born 16 days after Giglia’s daughter. Rowen always knew she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom, while continuing to do legal work …
This One MtGox Creditor Might Recover $61 Million Dollars – or Some Other Amount of Dollars or Possibly No Dollars
This article first published on Popula.com on July 12, 2018. It is available for reprints. PDF: this-one-mtgox-creditor-might-recover-61-million-dollars “You can open the champagne now.” Joyful celebration lit up online groups for creditors of the bankrupt MtGox exchange on June 22, when a Japanese court decided to move the company into “civil rehabilitation,” a new legal process that …
Mark Your Calendars: June 26 Is Banner Day for LGBT Rights at SCOTUS
It’s poetic coincidence that the biggest U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the LGBT civil rights movement bore the date June 26, said high court litigator Paul Smith, who argued the landmark case that laid the foundation for same-sex marriage equality. In Lawrence v. Texas, John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested in Lawrence’s Houston home …
Do journalists deserve some blame for America’s mass shootings?
By Angela Morris (published in Quill, Summer 2018) The reporter who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for feature writing initially thought she was in Charleston, South Carolina, to chronicle the lives of nine church-goers who died in 2015 when a stranger with a Glock murdered them while they were praying. The names, mug shots and …
At Elite Law Reviews, Diversity Efforts May Be Paying Off
In the past few years, some of the country’s most elite law reviews have elected students of color as editors-in-chief, a signal that yearslong diversity efforts might finally be paying off. Historically speaking, law reviews have struggled to represent students of color and women equally among their editors—jobs that can open doors to prestigious judicial …