Midsize law firm innovation moves to advance Diversity & Inclusion
THOMSON REUTERS — Recognizing the need to field more diverse legal teams, midsize law firms are aspiring to promote inclusion and increase more diversity among its ranks. As part of that, the Thomson Reuters Institute produced a three-part Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) roundtable series to provide a confidential space to learn how the most successful law…
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GENERAL COUNSEL NEWS — “For the past few years, law student recruitment for summer associate programs has been incredibly successful, harkening back to a time when law students quickly accepted the offers that Biglaw firms handed out like candy. Amid an unprecedented cash rush for associates and high demand for,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The…
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REUTERS — Law School Transparency was a thorn in the side of law schools when it launched in 2009, criticizing what it said was misleading graduate employment data and calling for changes in how schools report student outcomes. Now, the non-profit is joining the legal education establishment. The Law School Admission Council, which makes the Law School…
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BUSINESS WORLD — Among the biggest struggles of the law profession gearing towards the future is the fact that most law schools today tend to remain traditional and generate “20th-century lawyers” when the world logically requires “21st-century lawyers.” This is according to Richard Susskind, who is among the most cited authors in the world when it…
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THOMSON REUTERS — Despite double-digit salary growth in the legal industry, many firms are grappling with serious staffing concerns. According to the 2021 Law Firm Business Leaders Report from Thomson Reuters, more than one-half of firms (51%) now view acquiring and retaining talent as a high risk to future profitability. As they work to manage these staffing…
Read More about What law firms can do to attract talent in 2022Law firms boost law student summer associate hiring
ABA JOURNAL — Offer rates for summer associate spots last year reached their highest mark since 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Association for Law Placement. Fifty-eight percent of callback interviews resulted in offers for summer positions, according to the report, Perspectives on 2021 Law Student Recruiting.
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ABOVE THE LAW — For the past few years, law student recruitment for summer associate programs has been incredibly successful, harkening back to a time when law students quickly accepted the offers that Biglaw firms handed out like candy. Amid an unprecedented cash rush for associates and high demand for legal services, the 2021 recruitment cycle…
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REUTERS — Diving into the recent legal market report, we see an industry that is demonstrating resilience, yet could that be derailed by rising compensation costs? The Thomson Reuters’ depicted a legal industry immersed in an escalating war for talent. Ever since major law firms like Milbank began raising their associate salaries in early 2021, the market…
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AP NEWS — President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed American segregation. Introducing Jackson at the White House, Biden declared, “I believe it’s time that we have…
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WHYY – Nine months after declaring that racial diversity among judges in Delaware “is inadequate,” Supreme Court Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. released a strategic plan Tuesday to increase the number of Black and Latino members of the Delaware Bar. The report highlighted several numbers that illustrate the disparities in Delaware. For example, Black students made…
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