Former U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin recently published an opinion in the New York Times titled “Female Lawyers Can Talk, Too,” in which she criticized the gender imbalance of lead counsel appearing in courtrooms. Judge Scheindlin specifically discussed her 22-year experience on the bench observing male attorneys who assumed the speaking roles in court…keep reading
Conference equips students with the networks they’ll need for law school. Going to law school is generally a bad deal. The tuition far outstrips the earnings that the majority of law students can hope to secure, and even attorneys who land golden-ticket jobs burn out at such a rate to make one question the whole…keep reading
Irell & Manella LLP has elected Ellisen S. Turner as the firm’s managing partner. Turner, a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office who is the hiring chair and an executive committee member, is Irell’s first African-American managing partner. He will succeed Andrei Iancu who is completing his second three-year term, which is the maximum allowed tenure….keep reading
Legal analytics can now identify law firms committed to gender diversity by analyzing the gender of attorney appearances. Docket Alarm has done so for the United States Supreme Court and specialized patent courts. The lack of gender diversity is significant, especially in patent cases. Here we highlight firms breaking the mold. More women are entering…keep reading
Valparaiso University‘s incoming class of freshman, graduate and transfer students was told to embrace the challenges ahead of them on a campus that will support them along the way. Mark Heckler, the university’s president, and Hussein Shahine, president of the student body, talked about the things that set the university apart and bring the…keep reading