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Featured Lawyer: Richard Greiffenstein

Richard Greiffenstein Associate Jackson Lewis   1.What is your area of practice? My practice is focused on employment law.  That includes both litigation and counseling.   I’ve really enjoyed having that balance of litigation and counseling – it’s great to be able to be proactive and counsel or train a client on ways to help avoid…keep reading

Top Lawyer to Investigate Legal Profession’s Gender Problem

Before Hilarie Bass, co-president at Greenberg Traurig, began her tenure as president of the American Bar Association in August, she had already raised over $350,000 for her signature agenda item: a national research study to find out why women leave their careers in the law. Specifically, the president-elect hopes to find out why so many women leave law firms…keep reading

Why Women Leave Big Law To Start Their Own Firms

Peggy McCausland was tired of her firm’s networking events. The potential clientele she wanted to woo — business women — weren’t showing up, she said. So McCausland conceived her own networking event that would draw them — golf lessons, catered meals and shop talk — and asked for the necessary marketing funds. She was a partner at the firm, Blank Rome,…keep reading

Maine Voices: We need to watch whom our representatives place on the courts

Judicial diversity is important because our constitutional rights will not protect themselves. One hundred and forty-four. That is the number of current openings in the federal judiciary. This amounts to 16 percent of our federal judgeship’s. In the next few years, President Trump and the Republican Senate will fill those seats with lifetime appointments. And with…keep reading

How can law firms and in-house departments move the needle on diversity?

In-house Coach|Fernando Garcia   I recently attended the Hispanic National Bar Association’s 42nd Annual Convention which took place from Sept. 6 – Sept. 9 in Kansas City. This convention did not disappoint, as it was an incredible opportunity to network with law students, community representatives, government officials and legal professionals from the Hispanic and the diversity…keep reading