Lawyer Jonathan Baum discusses how to protect mental health in the legal profession
NYU LAW — In a decades-long career as a corporate-securities lawyer, Jonathan Baum ’78 has handled mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings, securities litigation, and complex business transactions at law firms, investment banks, and asset management firms.
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STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — In the United States, 20 million civil cases are filed annually. Of these, 75% involve at least one party without legal representation.
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SFGATE — More than a thousand associate lawyers at the nation’s most powerful and prestigious law firms are telling their bosses that it is time to stand up and be counted.
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REUTERS — U.S. law firm lateral hiring was up 14% in 2024 after two years of declines, according to data, opens new tab released Wednesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
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REUTERS — The Trump administration’s recent moves to shutter the U.S. Department of Education and shift management of the $1.6 trillion federal student loan program to the Small Business Administration threaten to disrupt the flow of money vital to law school operations, deans and other legal education experts said.
Read More about Law school deans warn that US Education Department closure will harm studentsHouse of Representatives inquires Northwestern Law over clinic’s representation of pro-Palestine protestor
REUTERS — A U.S. House of Representatives committee is investigating a Northwestern University’s legal clinic over its decision to represent protesters it alleges engaged in “illegal, antisemitic conduct,” in what appears to be the first U.S. school to be subjected to a Congressional inquiry over legal representation.
Read More about House of Representatives inquires Northwestern Law over clinic’s representation of pro-Palestine protestorCLEA and AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education leadership release joint statement on academic freedom
CLEA — In the weeks since Donald Trump took office for his second term, we have seen the considerable erosion of democracy and the rule of law in the United States.
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STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — Does presidential power extend to the ability to take aim at law firms, shutting them out of federal business? According to hundreds of legal scholars from across the United States the answer is a resounding no.
Read More about Hundreds of law professors sign amicus brief stating that federal orders on law firms threaten the legal professionOpinion: UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky criticizes higher ed leaders and law firm leaders for hesitancy to speak out against federal action
THE WASHINGTON POST — President Donald Trump is trying to intimidate his critics into silence. And, sadly, it is working.
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REUTERS — More than 300 law professors and other legal groups submitted court briefs backing law firm Perkins Coie in its lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that punished the firm for its work for Hillary Clinton and its diversity policies.
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