Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Undergraduate enrollment rose 2.5% year over year in spring 2024, the second semester in a row higher ed has seen such gains, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The…
Irish ELT outfit ATC Language and Travel has been partially sold to UK Language Courses in what has been described as a “strategic alliance”. Ed Greevy, long-time owner of the business, made the decision to sell his shares to the UK language school operator – prompting the search to find the “right business partner”. “I…
During his time at the Toyota Motor Company, Taiichi Ohno developed a tool for root cause analysis, the technique we know as the five whys. According to Ohno (1988), “By asking why five times and answering it each time, we can get to the real cause of the problem, which is often hidden behind more…
(Photo by www.flickr.com/photos/professorcooper/) John Burlingame is the global co-chair of the litigation practice at Squire Patton Boggs. He’s also the president of the Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington, Virginia. It’s in the latter role that Burlingame is courting controversy. Seems the club is looking to make some capital improvements (to the tune of…
The United States Supreme Court has gone rogue. Evidence for that proposition is abundant. Progressives rail against what is going on in our nation’s highest court. They are right to do so. But they have yet to develop a plan for reining in the Court and for protecting its institutional integrity. While it is clear…
Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based research has begun to emerge. The call for calm, patient reflection has been noted (Naidu 2023, para 10). Others argue that AI, in various forms,…
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Biglaw firms across the country instituted vaccine mandates in an effort to protect the members of their workforce. Now, a former employee who was fired for refusing to be vaccinated has filed suit, claiming that the firm discriminated against her. Denise Lemke, who once worked as a practice…
While the AI world navigates the intellectual property minefield of employing ScarJo impersonators, lawyerly artificial intelligence fans continue to wonder how to integrate the rapidly advancing technology into the legal workflow. It can’t draw pictures without giving everyone Anne Boleyn hands — which even Anne Boleyn didn’t have — so how is it going to…
Within Hartford, Connecticut, lies a vast community made up of people from across the Asian continent. The Asian population in Hartford County alone totals more than 53,000, making it one of the counties in the state with the most Asian residents. This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since…
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Four years ago when I raised this issue, no Am Law 100 firm had a billable hour credit for mental health and well-being hours. Now, I’m guessing five to eight firms have up to 25 hours of billable credit as standard for firm-sponsored mental…