While some major law firms are handing out summer bonuses, others are delaying start days for incoming associates. Regional powerhouse Bass, Berry & Sims — a firm with offices in Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, and Washington, D.C. — recently announced that it would be postponing the start date for its new first-year associates, from September to…
Been keeping the formation of that ~$1.6B revenue in 2023 firm on your radar? The good news is that Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord still intend on combining. The date of that merger is getting pushed back a bit, but don’t worry. Doing things the right way is often worth the extra time. Law.com has…
Duke University is discontinuing its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a program for top applicants of African descent. Dr. Candis Watts SmithThe decision comes in the wake of the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College that ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions,…
Chaos: the word experts chose time and again to describe the current state of student debt relief efforts and loan repayment. Since President Biden’s first attempt to clean the slate for millions of student borrowers was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2023, each subsequent effort has encountered lawsuits and judicial rulings…
Olga V. Mack is a Fellow at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and a Generative AI Editor at law.MIT. Olga embraces legal innovation and had dedicated her career to improving and shaping the future of law. She is convinced that the legal profession will emerge even stronger, more resilient, and more inclusive than…
As top colleges and universities continue to dominate the higher education industry with high-quality programs, a greater number of institutions are realizing the potential of getting their course accredited and adopting the continuous quality improvement process from admission to graduation. Not only can this help educational institutions with a unique opportunity to provide quality programs…
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice has released its final report on equity in higher education. Dr. Marybeth Gasman“Wounded Healers: The Pandemic, Racial Battle Fatigue, and Higher Education in California” is part of a Proctor Institute’s three-report “Year of Equity” research series examining equity in K-12 and higher education. “This series…
This summer, I was thrilled to see the Olympic Games in Paris in person (bucket list item, check!) Over that two-week period, I was astonished to see how fast people could run or swim, how high they could jump, and how far athletes could push the bounds of human potential. Though I was merely a…
Recently, fundraising copywriting and thanking guru, Lisa Sargent, posted a list of “small stuff” it’s absolutely important to sweat. It took me decades – decades! — to learn this on my own in the trenches, and I’d have given anything to have had a mentor like Lisa to clue me in…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on May 29, 2024 at 10:29 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Coming up: On Thursday, May 30, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the…