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November 6, 2009 1:21 PM
Legal Remedies: Fast, Furious, and Distracted
The fast and the furious combo can be deadly. Add technological distraction to the mix and self-described "great drivers" someday might steer themselves and their passengers down a highway to hell. The tag team of cars and "smart" phones hits the human brain in ways it was never designed to handle.
more Make a comment11/06/09 Posted by Dimitra Kessenides
November 4, 2009 2:02 PM
The Corporate Deferred: Associates Who Took a Different Path
Not all deferred associates took a public interest law job or used their stipends to travel the world. Some were determined to find work in the corporate world--and a few persistent ones pulled it off.
more Make a comment11/04/09 Posted by Zach Lowe
November 2, 2009 5:13 PM
Q&A With Ben Loeterman, Writer and Director of The People v. Leo Frank
PBS's new documentary, "The People v. Leo Frank," covers a notorious murder trial that exposed a powerful strand of anti-Semitism in the early twentieth-century American South. We caught up with Ben Loeterman, the film's writer and director, for a brief Q&A.
more Make a comment11/02/09 Posted by Matt Straquadine
October 30, 2009 6:00 PM
From Child Star to Law Professor
Getting into costume for Halloween is for amateurs. Charles Korsmo, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School and former Sullivan & Cromwell litigator, once had roles in major motion pictures like Dick Tracy, Hook, and Can't Hardly Wait.
more Make a comment10/30/09 Posted by Brian Baxter
October 27, 2009 2:03 PM
Is Ex-Shearman Associate Breaking into an Obama Boys' Club?
We were somewhat bemused to read the Sunday story in The New York Times that took President Obama to task for running the White House like some kind of frat house--save for the keg stands and other extracurricular activities. Was it just a coincidence that the same day the story appeared, the duffer-in-chief played a round of golf with a former Shearman & Sterling associate who happens to be a woman?
more Make a comment10/27/09 Posted by Brian Baxter
October 21, 2009 2:52 PM
Coming Soon: Law Firm Reality Television
According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, prominent trial lawyer Joseph Tacopina and his New York law firm could soon be the subject of a new reality TV series called Legal Ease. The Am Law Daily caught up with Tacopina to discuss the proposed show.
more Make a comment10/21/09 Posted by Brian Baxter
October 8, 2009 6:23 PM
Sexual Harassment at Center Stage
Employment lawyers use David Mamet's Oleanna as a jumping off point to explore the question of what exactly constitutes a hostile work environment.
more Make a comment10/08/09 Posted by D.M. Levine
October 2, 2009 5:07 PM
Off The Clock: Swimming with the Sharks
Some lawyers have the reputation of being sharks. Walter Bunt, Jr., just swims with them. Challenged by his son, the K&L Gates commercial litigator swam across San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz Island to Ghirardelli Square.
more Make a comment10/02/09 Posted by Brian Baxter
October 1, 2009 9:06 AM
Paradigm Shift: Power-Lawyer Mom, Stay-at-Home Dad
For all the talk about flextime, part-time, and other family-friendly policies, the reality is that big-law practice is an unforgiving profession, and a stay-at-home spouse provides some much-needed cushioning.
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10/01/09 Posted by Vivia Chen
September 29, 2009 5:35 PM
Remote Control
It's time for law firm leaders to face facts: work done at home can be done at the same high level--and with the same commitment--as whatever is done at the office.
more Make a comment09/29/09 Posted by Dimitra Kessenides
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