Well, she did exit the legal profession — who wouldn't?
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Stretch's background, however, is rooted firmly in the legal profession.
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Yet these measures are uniformly opposed by the legal profession.
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The legal profession has responded to the nomination with enormous approval.
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Angela Agrusa has one of the thornier gigs in the legal profession.
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Dershowitz chastised Avenatti on Tuesday, saying he's bad for the legal profession.
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So what's causing women in the legal profession to drink so much?
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Yet the legal profession as whole lacks a flat ban on such behavior.
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It's the code of LAW, as practiced by the bar or legal profession.
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It has also proposed amendments to the Malaysia media law and Legal Profession Act.
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The professional norms of the economics profession are very different from the legal profession.
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It is a tiny niche in the legal profession, but one he finds fascinating.
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But he said that in his career he promoted efforts to diversify the legal profession.
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As leaders in the legal profession, we are committed to protecting the rule of law.
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Both grew up poor, and both climbed to the pinnacle of the American legal profession.
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The startup has developed an AI as a Service platform aimed at the legal profession.
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The results demonstrate that women have not made nearly enough progress in the legal profession.
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Fifteen years ago, Legally Blonde hit screens – and the legal profession has never been the same.
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She also observed that Judge Kavanaugh is remarkably committed to promoting women in the legal profession.
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Bounds said he had promoted diversity in the legal profession over the course of his career.
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"Technology is already disrupting the legal profession, and there will likely be continued changes," Mnookin explains.
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I hope this column rekindles the discussion of how regulation of the legal profession must change.
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" She also observed that "Judge Kavanaugh is remarkably committed to promoting women in the legal profession.
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The legal profession is essentially a cartel with high barriers to entry, parallel pricing and other restrictions.
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A top job in the legal profession is one of the most sought after in the world.
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She left the legal profession for a time to help run campaigns for her husband, former Sen.
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His opinions are scholarly and influential in the legal profession, often cited by the Supreme Court itself.
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For a member of the legal profession it is the highest of honors to serve on this court.
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Second, for those unfamiliar with the legal profession, there is an important distinction between transactional and litigation practice.
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The legal profession had the most employees clocking in while hungover; almost 94 percent admitted to the act.
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Adlai from Forged in Fire was lured away from the legal profession by the romance of the forge.
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For a member of the legal profession it is the highest of honors to serve on this Court.
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Gorsuch gave the Olson lecture in 2013, delivering a politically anodyne plea for civility in the legal profession.
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I wanted to go work for Bill Bradley instead of going into management consulting or the legal profession.
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Now the physics and computer science have come together for Dolin in a surprising place: the legal profession.
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This has prompted many in the legal profession to mull the same question: Can Trump actually do that?
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Now some people believe the next advance by artificial intelligence into the workplace will involve the legal profession.
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They are in the clergy, the medical profession, the legal profession, law enforcement, teaching and every other profession.
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Our self-regulating legal profession does many things well, but we often struggle to police our own ranks.
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LONG hours have been the bane of the legal profession for ages; few of them involve thrilling courtroom antics.
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As a practicing lawyer, he has been involved in efforts to foster diversity in the legal profession, he noted.
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Though widely respected as thorough and fair by those in the legal profession, Horowitz has no credibility with Trump.
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A similar crackdown for the legal profession is warranted, perhaps finally bringing attorneys within the ambit of the BSA.
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"As an educator, I owe the next generation of lawyers a better version of the legal profession," she said.
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The new arrivals made a profound mark on New Orleans, influencing its legal profession, cuisine, journalism, politics and music.
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She left the legal profession entirely, and is now a successful romance novelist writing under the name Courtney Milan.
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In a letter to this committee, my women law clerk said I was one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers, and they wrote that the legal profession is fairer and more equal for women lawyers and wrote the legal profession is fairer and more equal because of me.
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Sitting and aspiring judges may turn to other jobs in the legal profession if states do not compensate them adequately.
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All too often I and my female colleagues in the legal profession have experienced the harmful effects of gender stereotypes.
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"This is a mainstream problem in the legal profession," Patrick Krill, lead author of the study, told The Chicago Tribune.
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Though McDounough's headlines are not as bold, her elevation is notable, given a pervasive gender imbalance in the legal profession.
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The legal profession, like all professions, is full of people out to show the world just how smart they are.
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"For a member of the legal profession, it is the highest of honors to serve on this Court," he wrote.
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It transformed legal education by sponsoring lively, balanced debates; for the legal profession, it deepened the pool of possible appointees.
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But those who break the law and face no consequence are a stain on their colleagues — and the legal profession.
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They're among the best and brightest young lawyers in America, and they become the future leaders of the legal profession.
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Postman writes that many popular organizations and institutions – the legal profession, for example – are designed to reduce the flow of information.
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The commission's ruling was also likely to benefit the legal profession, with both Apple and Ireland set to contest the decision.
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The group has been told to expect jail time, a severity of punishment that has shocked many in the legal profession.
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Unfortunately, many commentators on the legal profession have overlooked the crucial distinctions between legal services employment, lawyers and law school graduates.
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In trying to understand what had gone wrong in his life, she found a widespread addiction problem in the legal profession.
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Milan, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte expected to attend conference on "The evolution of the legal profession in Italy and worldwide" (63 GMT).
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I think it's time to either find a new job that's a better fit or get out of the legal profession entirely.
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Hiring activity in Britain was particularly strong in the legal profession and the technology sector, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Kennedy did his job by holding those accountable to the judicial system, respecting the process, the legal profession and the American people.
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"The legal profession traditionally is not one that looks inward and helps itself," said Mr. Chesler, a 1975 N.Y.U. law school graduate.
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Eric Eldon: First of all, how did you get into working with startups and within the wider world of the legal profession?
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Conversely, if you are in the medical or legal profession, you want to dress a level up from your clients or patients.
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The legal profession has been around a long time, with the first paid lawyers appearing in ancient Rome two thousand years ago.
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" And that, the letter says, could include "members of the legal profession seeking to join U.S.-based firms such as Sullivan & Cromwell.
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"Diversity and equal opportunity are vital in legal education and the legal profession," Kellye Testy, the CEO of LSAC, said in a statement.
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The research suggested that, for now, even the most advanced A.I. technology would at best make only modest inroads into the legal profession.
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"The building is unique in China, and it suits our firm's image, as we are a leader in the legal profession," Chen said.
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At the time, Munger was making his mark on the legal profession and co-founded the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson shortly after.
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Their strategy is to make public interest technology as integral to the technology industry as public interest law is to the legal profession.
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Scott Shuchart, a lawyer who filed one of the complaints, said he had done so as a concerned member of the legal profession.
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As in any industry, the highest levels of the legal profession can feel like a tight-knit circle of longtime friends and business associates.
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But Singapore is also a country of contrasts: Sex outside of wedlock is frowned upon, but prostitution is a legal profession for female citizens.
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Over the past couple of years, increased public attention has been given to the significant levels of depression and suicidality in the legal profession.
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Mr. Acosta is just one of tens of thousands of recent law school graduates caught up in a broad transformation of the legal profession.
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"She broke down barriers for women in the legal profession to the betterment of that profession and the country as a whole," he said.
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"From my experience of Michael, his approach towards teachers, his approach towards the legal profession ... that's not the Michael that I recognise," she said.
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That's what today is going to be for, getting things all set up in terms of what the legal profession calls the boring parts.
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"She broke down barriers for women in the legal profession to the betterment of that profession and the country as a whole," he wrote.
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As an example, the son of a father who works in the legal profession is 4.6 times as likely to practice medicine than the average.
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According to the new study, female suicide rates are the highest among police, firefighters, and corrections officers, followed closely by women in the legal profession.
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A common thread in both stories involves lawyer ethics, a cornerstone of American democracy — and that the legal profession is letting the American people down.
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Still, only three states — Kansas, Mississippi and Texas — ban felons from becoming lawyers because, at least in theory, the legal profession believes in second chances.
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His friend rejects this unseemly arrangement as an example of the back-channeling and deal-making that they'd gotten into the legal profession to stop.
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Next up was Carswell, a US appeals court judge in Florida whose past segregationist tendencies emerged along with questions about his standing in the legal profession.
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The 1960s and 1970s transformed the role of women in the law and the legal profession, and "RBG" would be key to many of the victories.
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As a leader in the legal profession, Wall wants to help reduce the stigma for others in his field who are afraid to ask for help.
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Lawyers could also be subjected to the same anti-money laundering rules as banks, although that is sure to provoke fierce opposition from the legal profession.
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Why do you believe it important to encourage young women lawyers and to ensure that both men and women are well represented in the legal profession?
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If the charges against Mr. Little are true, then he violated a basic precept of the legal profession by misusing the confidential information of a client.
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The legal profession — tradition-bound and labor-heavy — is on the cusp of a transformation in which artificial-intelligence platforms dramatically affect how legal work gets done.
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Other concerns for the committee include ensuring robust protections for journalists' sources; for the communications of members of parliament; and the privileged communications of the legal profession.
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An earlier Boston Globe analysis found that her ancestry was never a consideration during the hiring process at Harvard or throughout her rise in the legal profession.
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Macron has won plaudits from economists and business leaders by pushing through a deregulation law cutting red tape for retailers and the legal profession among other areas.
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Finley Fawn is a cam model—a taxed, legal profession—who has been fighting for custody of her six-year-old son since April of this year.
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" This paragon of the legal profession is currently working on a class-action suit against the manufacturers of Pitrolux, "a deodorant armpit gel that also boosted testosterone.
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Women accounted for less than 3 percent of the legal profession in the United States, and only one woman had ever served on a federal appellate court.
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Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., one of the nation's most respected authorities on legal ethics, who struggled to upgrade the integrity of the legal profession, died on Jan.
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To women, this reinforced the view that the legal profession itself — judges, lawyers, and court personnel — blame victims, excuse perpetrators, and do not take sexual assault seriously.
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The issuance of the rule was just one jurist's effort to chip away at the traditional old-boy network that has dominated the legal profession for decades.
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Although his reputation was tarnished by the sexual misconduct claims, Kavanaugh said during his confirmation hearings that he had a record of promoting women in the legal profession.
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I work in the legal profession and I've just been really busy pursuing my career, so it was hard to find time to date in the traditional ways.
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Armed with this new data — the first of its kind ever gathered about lawyers on a national level — the legal profession has an opportunity to right its ship.
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But political law veterans on both sides of the aisle insist Trump's bear hug of the legal profession flies in the face of the most elementary campaign wisdom.
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Started in May 2016, the group is one chapter of a global community of lawyers, policymakers, and technologists trying to drag the legal profession into the digital age.
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More specifically, he points to the revolving door between government and big banks, the corruption of the legal profession, and the relentless fundraising that's required of US politicians.
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"For a member of the legal profession it is the highest of honors to serve on this Court," Kennedy wrote in a letter notifying Trump of his decision.
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"Today marks a historic step forward in addressing the ongoing mental health crisis in the legal profession," said New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) President Henry M. Greenberg.
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I didn't want to because I get insecure about giving advice about navigating the legal profession, since I do not feel as though I have "made it" yet.
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The systemic sexism that Richardson mentions is indeed one of the main culprits that's likely causing women in the legal profession to imbibe in more and greater numbers.
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Courts have generally concluded that law graduates chose the legal profession at their own risk, and that a law degree, like any other, comes with no guarantee of employment.
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Becoming a legal assistant is an excellent way to get your foot in the door of the legal profession, and even work your way up to becoming a paralegal.
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Most important, however, may be a broad pro-business consensus within the upper ranks of the legal profession, one that has been more than two generations in the making.
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John Coates is the John F. Cogan Jr. professor of law and economics, as well as research director of the Center on the Legal Profession, at Harvard Law School.
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One of the most unfortunate results of that victim blaming is that women saw virtually the entire legal profession linking arms with a campaign that engaged in this conduct.
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Most pro-choice people would agree with this, but not a group of 113 women in the legal profession who submitted an amicus brief in Whole Woman's Health v.
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Judge Wald was a pioneer for women in law, rising from a working-class family to enter the legal profession at a time when women were a rare presence.
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When it comes to helping lawyers seek the treatment they need, "the legal profession is pretty far behind the curve in terms of dealing with these issues," Krill says.
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"In no other country does the legal profession exert so much influence over its own regulatory process," writes Deborah Rhode of Stanford University in her book "The Trouble with Lawyers".
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In fact, there was no omission, says Margaret Ng, a barrister who represented the legal profession in Hong Kong's legislature from 1995 to 2012, under first British then Chinese rule.
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And now, new research I spearheaded confirms what many in the legal profession have long known but struggled to publicly confront: A stunning percentage of practicing attorneys are problem drinkers.
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In an era where accountability for wrongdoing in public office is at a crisis point, it's incumbent on the legal profession to toe the line for the rule of law.
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Women and people of color in the legal profession continue to face barriers in hiring, promotions, assignments and compensation, according to a study released Thursday by the American Bar Association.
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Leege went on to speculate about what might happen in the worst of circumstances: I think the legal profession, finance, and corporate business would resist Trump's efforts toward a coup.
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One reason for the early cover-up is that Xi's China has systematically gutted institutions like journalism, social media, nongovernmental organizations, the legal profession and others that might provide accountability.
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EXTREME ECONOMIES What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own FutureBy Richard Davies An adage in the legal profession holds that hard cases make bad law.
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Companies are always looking for ways to work faster and more efficiently, even in industries we think of as slow to adopt new technologies — like, for example, the legal profession.
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VICE gathered former law clerks who knew of, clerked for, or experienced harassment from Judge Kozinski to talk about the #MeToo movement in the top echelons of the legal profession.
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After decades of talking about the importance of opportunity for all, men and Caucasians still dominate the best universities, boards of the largest companies, the legal profession, the media and politics.
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses "diversity in the legal profession," sponsored by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and George Washington University Law School at 5 p.m.
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On one point, however, Anthony Kennedy's position is clear and unwavering: his commitment to the rule of law, the legal profession, the role of the judge, and the American constitutional system.
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She has written dozens of Law Review articles on this topic, and is ferocious in researching how women have been systematically excluded from participation inside and outside of the legal profession.
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For decades, a stint as an A.U.S.A. for the Southern District has led to prosperous anonymity in the upper reaches of the legal profession, especially in major New York law firms.
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The Federalist Society spent decades preparing for this moment, and they've helped Trump identify many of the most talented conservative stalwarts in the entire legal profession to place on the bench.
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Having overcome poverty and discrimination to reach the pinnacle of the legal profession, Mr. Barbosa became a crusading figure in the fight against corruption, which is the top concern among Brazilian voters.
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"Attorney General Lynch's decision to breach the well-defined ethical standards of the Department of Justice and the American legal profession is an outrageous abuse of the public's trust," read the complaint.
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He has 22006 years of seasoning as a Judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, widely viewed by the legal profession as the Triple-A farm team for the Supreme Court.
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The only profession that will benefit from these cases and controversies is, of course, the legal profession, which already has been gearing up for the inevitable flood of litigation on the horizon.
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But if all judges — male and female — business leaders and the bar at large want to achieve real gender diversity in the legal profession, they have the power to make it happen.
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The legal profession is in the early stages of a fundamental transformation driven by an entirely new breed of intelligent technologies and it is a perilous place for the profession to be.
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In Ms. Verdrager's case, reading a book about women's struggles to succeed in the legal profession, which included numerous interviews with women who had faced discrimination, helped persuade her to file her complaint.
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With IP-protected innovation now the principal driver of corporate value as well as national economic growth, intellectual property has become vitally important to all Americans, not just those in the legal profession.
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In what has become a painfully familiar phrase over the last two months, the judge's conduct was an "open secret" in the federal court system, law schools, and the legal profession at large.
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But it's important to recognize that the majority—91 percent—of the people who participated in the study about rates of alcoholism in the legal profession were white, which could affect the research.
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Leslie Levin, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and an expert on the legal profession, said that the association has struggled in the past with taking positions on controversial topics.
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While law school graduates out-earn those with just a high school or bachelor's degree on average, the legal profession is not immune to the same technological trends that have touched essentially every industry.
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Since taking office in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping has adopted a zero-tolerance approach to dissent, tightened the party's grip over the legal profession and overseen the jailing of dozens of rights activists.
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Last year's law school graduates landed fewer jobs in private practice than any class in the last two decades, according to the National Association for Law Placement, which tracks developments in the legal profession.
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Entering the legal profession means measuring up to tough standards, but the numerical qualifications, like admissions test scores and grade point averages, of students have declined, and fewer people are applying to law school.
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If that work can be so easily erased, if powerful individuals and personal friendships in elite legal circles prove more important than uncomfortable reckonings, our society and the legal profession will continue to fail.
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"The court takes allegations like those the government makes here seriously, for ethical rules are necessary to the maintenance of a culture of civility and mutual trust within the legal profession," the opinion said.
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That, despite your perseverance and accomplishments, you faced so much trouble being permitted to do something you are so clearly qualified to do is a disgrace, and an utter failure of the legal profession.
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Zimmerman's experience leads her to research and report on white-collar addiction, particularly with respect to the legal profession, where, she discovers, anxiety and depression are rampant, and heavy drinking and drug use common.
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"One might say that originalism has become a Unitarian Church for the legal profession," Michael Greve, a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, wrote in an essay last July.
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I've been trying to figure out how to increase diversity in my organization and in the legal profession generally, which continues to struggle with this issue to a greater extent than most other professions.
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After facing now almost unimaginable barriers to entry into the legal profession, she cofounded the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU and strategically took on cases through which she made significant legal advances for women.
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The American Bar Association has been rating potential or actual judicial nominees since the 1940s, and its defenders once argued that its ratings could be trusted because it was focused strictly on the legal profession.
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"The fight is probably truly never over," remarked Spera, who has followed her grandmother's footsteps into the legal profession and is currently clerking in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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The legal profession and the criminal-justice system were built from scratch — Mao had purged and destroyed the nascent community of lawyers in one of his ideological campaigns — but there was trouble from the start.
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree, as she was long formally known — was instrumental in winning a spate of advances for blacks and women in midcentury America, blazing trails in the military, the legal profession and the ministry.
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Frankly, back in the day, other women were part of the problem, because I remember back when I first started practicing law, there were not many women in positions of authority in the legal profession.
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"In the past, the publication of articles devoted to intellectual property and other legal matters was largely limited to law review journals and other legal profession-specific publications, and, of course, traditional news sources," she said.
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Elizabeth Warren's professional history by the Boston Globe found that her claim to Native American ancestry was never a consideration during her hiring process at Harvard Law School or throughout her rise in the legal profession.
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Unless you studied law in college or are lucky enough to have friends working in the legal profession, it's rare for anyone to sit you down and tell you what your rights are in specific situations.
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"The Court takes allegations like those the Government makes here seriously, for ethical rules are necessary to the maintenance of a culture of civility and mutual trust within the legal profession," the Supreme Court opinion read.
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Felix Steffek, a lecturer in law from the University of Cambridge and a specialist in the use of AI in the legal profession, welcomed the potential for people to get more information about everyday license agreements.
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He is concerned that rather than challenging a method that produces constitutional law that few people would want, liberals are uncritically helping to normalize it and teach it to the next generation of the legal profession.
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After a vetting process, including cross-checking names with competitors and reviewing deals, the below list is a foundation of people-talent who will likely lead the private equity legal profession in the years to come.
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The legal profession itself has a strong belief that there is an important principle by which it is wrong to subject lawyers to social sanction or strong moral criticism for working on behalf of bad people.
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The American Bar Association, which earlier endorsed Kavanaugh, and the dean of Yale Law School, which Kavanaugh attended, also called for an FBI probe on Friday, the first indication of the legal profession turning on the nominee.
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" The head of Turkey's bar association, Metin Feyzioglu, put it bluntly in a statement distributed by the C.C.B.E.: "The governmental decrees of the state of emergency are directly targeting the right to defense and the legal profession.
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In the government's most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health report on substance abuse by industry, professional services (which include the legal profession) ranked ninth out of 210 industries in terms of illicit drug use.
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The existing pilot program, for Harvard juniors, was started in 2014 to encourage students to gain work experience before entering law school and to encourage those studying science, technology, engineering or math to pursue the legal profession.
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In the legal profession, the sardonic "Queen for a Day" description of such an important process is a form of gallows humor deriving from the name of a popular television show, whose heyday was from 1956 to 1964.
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A number of female lawyers are now arguing that the legal profession has had ample time to get used to women in its ranks and needs to be held accountable, either in court or in mediation or arbitration.
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I think the timing is 80 percent of the battle; The fact that the legal profession had got to a point of being ready to accept the use of that kind of technology was more luck than anything.
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Alsup's chambers have many of the classic aesthetics of the legal profession: the shelves upon shelves of leather-bound books, the stained wood paneling, a small black-and-white portrait of Abraham Lincoln hanging over an intimidatingly large desk.
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"The legal profession has been historically behind the curve in technology adoption and our objective here is to support to digital transformation of legal departments via our contract management platform," ContractPodAi co-founder and CEO Sarvarth Misra tells TechCrunch.
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Officials from 10 states on Tuesday said a new U.S. Department of Labor rule requiring employers to disclose when they seek legal advice on responding to union campaigns infringes on the right of states to regulate the legal profession.
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Maybe Jimmy isn't even totally lying (as the unbearably bittersweet cold open reveals, Chuck is a big reason Jimmy is in the legal profession), but sharing just enough of the truth to make his false motives easier to swallow.
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On Monday, the Chinese government and Communist Party also jointly issued broad guidelines for reforming the legal profession, in a document that stressed demands for lawyers to be both honest professionals and loyal enforcers of the Communist Party's policies.
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Can you talk ... I want to go into ... and the last part is talking about the legal profession and it's sort of ... It's been one of the few professions that has been resistant to digital, more so than others.
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On the hopeful side, there has recently been a robust and energetic attempt not only by members of the press, but also of the legal profession and by average citizens to call out and counter Trumpism's attack on reality.
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State Bar of California, the court concluded that mandatory bar association dues comport with the First Amendment as long as the bar association uses money from dues to regulate the legal profession and improve the quality of legal services.
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Judge Wayne R. Andersen, who was a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois for close to 20 years, explained that there was a continuing debate within the legal profession about the qualifications required of a trial judge.
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But today, if you&aposre in accounting, finance, technology, creative, the legal profession — for attorneys, the unemployment rate is 1.2 percent — if you&aposre making a move within your core competency area, employers are expecting to pay up for that experience.
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In a letter to this committee, my women law clerks said I was one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers and they wrote that the legal profession is fairer and more equal because of me.
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Yorov has dismissed the charges against him as politically motivated and rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have said they appeared to be trumped-up and that the move threatened the legal profession in general in the Central Asian nation.
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In response to what it calls a "landmark study," the American Bar Association acknowledged the disproportionately high rates of problematic drinking among lawyers, something which it chalked up, in large part, to the high-stress environment of the legal profession.
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Mr. MacCrate was named president of the American Bar Association in 1987 and later led a task force to examine the state of legal education and offer recommendations on how to ease the transition between law school and the legal profession.
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Sometimes I wish I had gotten my PhD or at least a Master's in Biomedical Engineering before I went to law school because I honestly love school, but that would have just delayed my eventual entrance into the legal profession.
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In a letter to this committee, my women law clerks said I was one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers, and they wrote that the legal profession is fairer and more equal because of me.
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Her experience of sexism in the legal profession starts at Harvard and continues after she graduates (from Columbia, where she transferred after two years) and tries to find work, taking a teaching job at Rutgers when no firm will hire her.
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Deborah Rhode, an expert in legal ethics and the director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School, said she believed that Judge Kemp's behavior stayed within ethical bounds, especially because it came after the sentencing had ended.
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If citizens, leaders of the legal profession, and public officials do not guide this process, those who have goals that are less aligned with the improvement of the justice system and more aligned with profits will do it for them.
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In a letter to the committee, my women law clerks said I was one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers and they wrote that the legal profession is fair and more equal because of me.
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At the time, Arizona's decision provoked a heated debate in the legal profession, which has long supported the Law School Admissions Test, or LSAT, over whether that test should be relied on as a single valid predictor of law school success.
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"She's not a lawyer in a law firm that was taking very sensitive cases," Ms. Wang said, referring to a crackdown on the legal profession that has led to the detention of about 250 lawyers, legal workers and activists since last summer.
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"No one should have to endure sexual harassment as a rite of passage into the legal profession," said Knake, who told the judges that when she was in law school she was warned to avoid clerking for a judge known for mistreating clerks.
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In May, Cummings allowed Texas and nine other states to join the lawsuit after they claimed the persuader rule infringed on their authority to regulate the legal profession, since it applies to labor lawyers who regularly offer advice on responding to union efforts.
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After spending six months looking to re-enter the legal profession and with no formal re-entry programs in Pittsburgh, her plan was to get work experience and network in the legal community, rather than to find permanent employment with her judicial boss.
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The New York City Bar Association is launching a far-reaching initiative to diversify the legal profession by creating a talent pipeline that begins as early as elementary school, after finding in a recent report that minorities remain underrepresented at law firms.
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A group of environmental lawyers at the American Bar Association, where Mr. Wright was an active member, cited his "well-recognized personal integrity" as exemplifying "the highest standards of the legal profession" in a letter of support sent to the E.P.A. in February.
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Liu points to companies like IBM (with Watson) as general competitors, while startups like Luminance is another taking a similar approach to Eigen by addressing the issue of parsing unstructured data in a specific sector (in its case, currently, the legal profession).
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The judge is an accomplished singer and even performs in a local theater group, Asterbadi said, and has a close friend group of women outside the legal profession, including many who recommended her to the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation process.
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Turns out, barristers in jolly ol' England who take time off work after giving birth are protected way more than in the U.S. The org that regulates the legal profession there allows women up to 12 months off and their job is fully protected.
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"Historically, the legal profession and the medical profession seemed to be better alternatives for women… It seemed like there was more opportunity in those two fields than in business at the higher echelons, and slowly I think we're starting to see that change," he said.
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The legal profession employs more than 1 million people across the country, according to the US Bureau of Labor, but there are only some tens of thousands of lawyers who comprise "Big Law," or the nation's most elite attorneys who often advise blue-chip corporations.
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But on Wednesday, Jack B. Weinstein, a senior federal judge in Brooklyn, used this typically mundane process to address an issue of growing concern to many in the legal profession: the lack of female lawyers in leading roles at trials and other court proceedings.
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The society says its main mission is to create a forum for legal experts of opposing views to interact with members of the legal profession, the judiciary, law students and academics, including through events such as the National Lawyer's Convention that begins Thursday in Washington.
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But more important is that Mr Gove has taken a less confrontational attitude to the judiciary and the legal profession than did the hardline Mr Grayling, who was the first non-lawyer to be Lord Chancellor in over 400 years (Mr Gove himself is the second).
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These firms have the highest number of clients of any Am Law firms, with American Bar Association Resolution 113 signatory clients (firms that have pledged to promoting diversity in the legal profession), and have received recognition from Working Mother since the inception of the award in 2007.
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"Most people in the legal profession believe there will be an opportunity for the next president to nominate the vacancies on the United States Supreme Court," Allred said, adding that many of the judges Trump says he'd nominate to fill Supreme Court vacancies are anti-choice.
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The simplest mechanism would be to assign half a vote to each custodial parent; presumably single parents with full custody could exercise the full franchise for each child, and assigning rights in custody disputes and polyamorous households would provide a mild stimulus for the legal profession.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sandra Day O'Connor, a pioneer in the legal profession who made history in 1981 by becoming the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and remained on the bench for a quarter century, announced on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with dementia.
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Ms. Kay wrote articles on the history of women in the legal profession and seminal books of case law, including "Sex-Based Discrimination," which she wrote in the 21956s with Kenneth Davidson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a friend who was later named a Supreme Court justice.
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"We see two major trends in the legal profession," said Warren Zysman, the clinical director of the EARS Recovery Program in Smithtown, N.Y., a medically supervised chemical dependency program, and the former chief executive of Addiction Care Interventions, a rehabilitation center in Manhattan for professionals, including lawyers.
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The federal appellate court judge has emerged as an early favorite to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, given Srinivasan's sterling educational and professional credentials, his bipartisan work history and his inspiring biography as an immigrant who has risen to the highest ranks of the legal profession.
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Even a cursory review of all the names on the president's list of potential nominees reveals that these men and women represent the best the legal profession has to offer: outstanding education, experience in the position, and well-reasoned decisions that fairly apply the law and the Constitution.
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"By deceiving Congress and the American people, who vested their trust in both the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice at large, Attorney General Barr must be subject to a professional review for the sake of the legal profession and the public," the lawmakers wrote.
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Similar to the way the American Medical Association has made it clear that its members must not participate in torture, the American Bar Association should signal that anyone who defends the border patrol's mistreatment of children will not be considered a member in good standing of the legal profession.
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It has long had a program that attracts the best and the brightest to the low-wage corners of the legal profession: Each year, 20 students who commit to a career in public service pay no tuition, while those whose ambition hews toward corporate law are charged full freight.
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"The first priority is for the individual to decide what it is that she really wants and the price she is willing to pay for that," said Deborah L. Rhode, a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the director of its Center on the Legal Profession.
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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - As India's biggest corporate showdown heads from the boardroom to the courtroom and brings in a Who's Who of the country's legal profession, ousted Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry vows a multi-layered battle for governance reforms at the $100 billion conglomerate, people close to him say.
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A federal judge has ruled that Texas and nine other states can join a lawsuit seeking to overturn a new U.S. Department of Labor rule requiring employers to disclose whenever they seek advice on responding to union campaigns, which the states say infringes on their right to regulate the legal profession.
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In a 20123 case in which prosecutors misled the trial judge about the poor track record of the state's forensics expert, Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rattled the legal profession by declaring that there was an ''epidemic'' of prosecutors' withholding evidence.
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Harvard Law was only the country's second law school to say it would accept the G.R.E. When the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law announced its plan last year to accept G.R.E. scores, as well as L.S.A.T. scores, it caused a bit of an uproar in the legal profession.
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"The idea that you would be in government, you would be consulted, you would be a big shot in the legal profession, I think that was viewed as one of the distinctive parts of the Harvard Law School ethos," said Mr. Kennedy, who noted that some of his best-known colleagues maintained very active practices.
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"Of our 15 lead investigators, 11 have no policing background and their experience spans several fields, notably workplace health and safety, medical oversight, national security and intelligence, immigration, corrections, transportation, and the legal profession," wrote spokesperson Kaia Werbus in an email, adding that the SIU only hired the most qualified investigators, regardless of their backgrounds.
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"In summary, Justice Thomas climbed from Pin Point, Georgia, prejudice and poverty to the pinnacle of the legal profession, to where he is now an intellectual leader on a Supreme Court that is more influential than ever in the most powerful nation on Earth," said Cruz, a former law clerk at the Supreme Court.
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Michele Coleman Mayes, former chairwoman of the commission, said she oversaw the report, called "You Can't Change What You Can't See: Interrupting Bias in the Legal Profession," because she was dismayed by statistics on men of color and women in top positions — and the way that law firms and organizations were talking about diversity.
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These lawyers are among the noblest members of the legal profession and perform a vital function in ensuring that our criminal justice system lives up to its ideals, but they are burdened with crushing caseloads that can make it all but impossible for them to devote the time needed to serve their clients adequately.
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These stolen law firm files make clear that use of attorneys and attorney bank accounts can include crimes such as: Because the American legal profession is a powerful lobby and perhaps because the Skadden story involves a strong Democratic connection, many in the media have deprived us of the news and discussion the scandal plainly deserves.
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"Recent events have highlighted that the very qualities that make the position of law clerk attractive — particularly, the opportunity to work with a senior member of the legal profession in a position of mentorship and trust — can create special risks of abuse," Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary.
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Clerkships have become even more prized by prospective law students in recent years, especially after the legal profession was jolted by the financial crisis of 2008, said Asha Rangappa, a former associate dean and graduate of the law school, who is now a senior lecturer and director of admissions at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
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The 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market from Peer Monitor, Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Georgetown Law Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession, found that there was a 1.6% rise in the demand for labor and employment attorneys and a 1.4% rise in demand for all corporate attorneys from November 2018 to November 2019.
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We hope the modest expansion to include the GRE as an option for admission to JD programs echoes and amplifies the larger and deeper debates about the legal profession, access to legal services, entry to practice, the provision of legal services through technology and increasingly by nonlawyers, and how expensive it is to become a lawyer.
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Firms were laying off thousands of lawyers at the worst points of the recession: Over 40,000 legal profession jobs were lost between December 2007 and October 2009, according to the UCLA Law Review, and over 14,000 people were laid off between January 20173, 2008, and January 31, 2010 by the major law firms alone, according to a report from the Fordham Law Review.
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Ernst composed Kindness in 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, the year the Nazis abolished a slew of civil liberties and rounded up the political opposition, the year they led a boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses and expelled all "non-Aryans" from the legal profession, the year they staged public book burnings and legalized eugenic sterilization.
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Sentiment analysis is a process currently used by companies to scan social media and news sites for mention of a company and determine the extent to which it is positive or negative, said Noah Waisberg, co-founder and CEO of AI software firm Kira Systems, which is being used in the legal profession for document review that in the past would have consumed the lives of law firm associates.
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Patriotic Americans of all political persuasions should applaud Sanders, a pillar of integrity in American politics, rising to the defense of Mueller, a pillar of integrity in law enforcement and the legal profession, warning Trump about his behavior toward the Russia investigation, which earned the president the "Lie of the Year" award from the respected fact-checker PolitiFact for falsely claiming the Russian attack against America is a "made up story".
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Hundreds of attorneys from across the legal profession on Tuesday published a letter calling on the Senate to conduct a fair and impartial trial of President TrumpDonald John TrumpPence: Intelligence shows Iran directing militias not to attack U.S. targets Mnuchin aims to wait until end of 85033 to disclose Secret Service costs for Trump's travel: report Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment MORE once the upper chamber receives the House-passed articles of impeachment.
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