We give Cooley a lot of flack around here, mostly because it continues to put graduates in roughly $270K of debt while posting abysmal bar passage rates. As if that weren’t bad enough, from time to time, the school has the chutzpah to proclaim itself tied with Harvard. And you thought Harvard being tied with…
If you champion plain language, ease-of-reading writing in your organization, you will run into opposition. The habit of complex writing is deeply embedded in our education and professional cultures. There are a number of typical arguments against communicating clearly. Here are ten of them — and their answers — from Writing for Dollars, Writing to…
The University of Southern California has canceled the valedictorian speech for its 2024 commencement ceremony due to safety concerns, prompting widespread criticism via social media from academicians who argue that the university is looking to restrict free speech. Dr. Andrew T. GuzmanThe concerns arose from criticisms and pushback regarding the university’s selected valedictorian, whose social…
The renowned judges who have served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit include John Marshall Harlan, Thurgood Marshall, Learned Hand, and Henry Friendly. Each was extraordinarily able and accomplished, and each embodied a notion of the law that was larger than himself. Then there is Martin Manton, who served on…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Business owners engaging in international transactions often face the challenging task of determining the governing law for their contracts. This decision carries significant implications, influencing not only your business operations but also the potential legal costs. This article will explore the …
CARET Legal offers a complete solution for clients, from prospect to profit, with case management, document solutions, billing, accounting and payments, client communication, and prospect and contact management. Users can minimize data entry and efficiently manage their work by utilizing these powerful tools within the application. Workflows are at the core of CARET Legal, driving…
Racial and gender inequities still plague the field of educational measurement, from professional rank to salary, across academia, industry, and leadership roles. Those are the findings of a new report supported by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), and Women in Measurement (WIM). These organizations provide membership…
One of our team members, Laura Moss, talks about her experiences developing a small cohousing project in Cumbria. Here, she outlines how her group navigated the planning system for their development. For the previous articles in the series, please see here: Part 1: establishing a cohousing community. Part 2: setting up a cohousing community: the…
For all the generative AI hoopla, it feels as though the legal sector remains flummoxed by the technology. Everyone’s talking about the role that AI will play in the industry, but hardly anyone’s actually doing anything about it yet. As of a few months ago, only around 15 percent of Biglaw had taken the AI…
John ThomasJohn Thomas has been appointed chief of police at the University of California, Los Angeles. He served as special advisor to the senior vice president for administration at the University of Southern California. Thomas holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and a master’s in executive…