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Legal professionals need to stick together. And today, more than ever, need to live by the adage, “A rising tide lifts all ships.” With this in mind, let’s talk about women in law and drive home some points that will encourage even the youngest of associates to see the golden path before them. It’s well…
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We’re definitely hearing it from associates—asking whether we think their firms will be matching summer bonuses. A good number of associates have been putting in the hours on the practices that have been busy, including litigation and structured finance groups. There are definitely pockets…
(Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) The Olympics may be over, but this lawyer’s journey to the games will live on forever. Rose Harvey, 31, represented Team Great Britain as a marathoner, and she took a rather circuitous route to get there. Just a few short years ago, Harvey worked as a corporate lawyer at Pinsent…
Above the Law publishes an in-house compensation report every year, and we are updating our data for 2024. If you’re an in-house attorney, please take our brief survey. The more information we collect, the more information we’ll have to share when we release the report later this year. Our 2023 survey had record participation, with more…
Known for testing for minimum competency and failing to do its job, bar exam reform advocates have spent years pushing for a meaningful alternative. The perfect solution would be if all law schools did a good enough job of teaching students how to be lawyers that they were work-ready by the time they cross the…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Aug 13, 2024 at 10:53 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Tuesday, August 13, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 13, 2024, 10:53 AM),…
(Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is off to a great start, and her law school alma mater — the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (f/k/a the University of California Hastings College of the Law) — is hoping to capitalize on the excitement that…
It’s pretty sure JPMorgan & co. have a bit more responsibility for all the fraud going on than the banks do, which is to say none. The post CFPB Gonna Check To See How Well Banks Know Their Zelle Customers appeared first on Above the Law. #CFPB #Gonna #Check #Banks #Zelle #Customers
* Do you know where Kamala Harris went to law school? University of California Hastings College of the Law hopes you take a minute to google that. [Reuters] * Lawyer successfully executes the cybersquatting ploy targeting the Dem ticket — again. [Bloomberg Law] * Generational drama: Biglaw style. [Law.com] * RFK Jr. won’t be on…
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated President Joe Biden’s program of student debt forgiveness. In Biden v. Nebraska the Court’s six Republican appointees granted standing to a state-created loan-processing corporation in Missouri that goes by the acronym MOHELA. Those same Justices then ruled that the statute the administration invoked—which goes by the acronym the…