Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course
May 19, 2015
For all the chatter, studies, and disheartening stats we read on where Women in the Law rank in the legal services sector, I say 'phooey'. Yes, the numbers stink; yes, there are real barriers, discrimination, disappointing treatment from law firm leadership, but hey, we are women 'with a capitol W' as the phrase goes.
In the Courts
May 02, 2015
In-depth analysis of a case involving potential criminal liability under the AKS.
Monitoring Employee Social Media Activity
May 02, 2015
Last year, the Pew Center released its demographic data on social media usage. The data revealed that ' regardless of age, race, sex, education or income ' nearly 75% of all adults in the United States who use the Internet use social media. The time is ripe to examine the pros, cons and pitfalls of monitoring employee social media postings from a legal perspective.
Questions Every Leader Should Ask
May 02, 2015
Leaders in today's law firms are so caught up in managing their caseloads, achieving billable hour goals and putting out fires, they rarely stop to consider how well they are leading.
When Binding Loyalty Creates Loyalty Binds
May 02, 2015
Behavioral science research has found that children are best served when they have healthy, quality relationships with both parents. Children are poorly served when one parent interferes with the child's relationship with the other parent.
Beware: Not All Communications Between Court-Appointed Bankruptcy Professionals Are Privileged
May 02, 2015
A successful Chapter 11 representation requires a close working relationship between the client's attorneys and non-attorney professionals, and the latter are generally kept fully abreast of the attorney's strategies on behalf of their common client. But where a communication otherwise protected by the attorney-client privilege is disclosed to, or made in the presence of a third party, the communication may no longer be, or deemed never to have been considered privileged.
Financial Services Lawyers Cheer Quicken Loans' Lawsuit
May 02, 2015
A legal challenge by Quicken Loans Inc. to the U.S. government's aggressive scrutiny of its FHA mortgage loans reflects widespread industry unease with government investigation of lenders, financial-services lawyers said.
