Legal profession is diversifying, but not at the top
WASHINGTON POST – Minority lawyers now make up 16 percent of law firms but remain scarce at the top, where only 9 percent of law partners are people of color, according to new data.
Read More about Legal profession is diversifying, but not at the topABA President Hillarie Bass vows to address attorney substance use and mental health in President’s Message
ABA JOURNAL – “If left unaddressed, questions about lawyers’ health and competence will inevitably undermine the public’s trust in a profession dedicated to client service and dependent on that trust.”
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AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION – In an effort to understand why women seem to leave the legal profession at what should be the height of their careers, more than 160 lawyers gathered at Harvard Law School in November.
Read More about Why women leave the legal professionABA opposes anti-terrorism bill due to unreasonable regulations on lawyers and small business clients
ABA JOURNAL – ABA President Hilarie Bass sent a letter (PDF) Monday to the leaders of the House Financial Services Committee opposing Section 9 of the Counter Terrorism and Illicit Finance Act.
Read More about ABA opposes anti-terrorism bill due to unreasonable regulations on lawyers and small business clientsUniversity of New Hampshire Law Dean Megan Carpenter interviewed about legal education and the law school
NEW HAMPSHIRE BUSINESS REVIEW – Megan Carpenter, who arrived in July from Texas A&M University Law School, is the first woman dean since the school’s founding as Franklin Pierce Law School in 1973.
Read More about University of New Hampshire Law Dean Megan Carpenter interviewed about legal education and the law schoolAn interview with new Harvard Law Dean John Manning
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – Manning spoke with the Bulletin on a range of topics, including getting advice, giving it and “doing disagreement right.”
Read More about An interview with new Harvard Law Dean John ManningValparaiso Law explores future of law school, solutions to financial challenges
INDIANA LAWYER – Valparaiso Law School is not the only legal education institution getting crushed by declining enrollment and falling revenue, but it is likely the oldest to publicly announce its future is uncertain.
Read More about Valparaiso Law explores future of law school, solutions to financial challengesSyracuse Law’s Syrian Accountability Project works to document war crimes and crimes against humanity related to Syrian crisis
DAILY ORANGE – The Syrian Accountability Project documents war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the Syrian crisis.
Read More about Syracuse Law’s Syrian Accountability Project works to document war crimes and crimes against humanity related to Syrian crisisYale Law project helps secure permanent national injunction on denying funding to sanctuary cities
YALE LAW SCHOOL – A federal judge in California has permanently blocked the Trump administration from denying funding to sanctuary cities, a major victory for Yale Law clinic students.
Read More about Yale Law project helps secure permanent national injunction on denying funding to sanctuary citiesCase Western Reserve University Law students file federal Civil Rights complaint on behalf of Ohio inmate
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY – A team of three law students and their professor filed the complaint Nov. 16 in the U.S District Court for the Northern district of Ohio, Eastern Division.
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