Law firm expands community partnerships to aid Black and Indigenous law students
BENZINGA — Stikeman Elliott is pleased to announce that the firm has expanded its community partnerships in support of Black and Indigenous students who demonstrate an interest in pursuing a career in law. Earlier this fall, Stikeman Elliott participated in the development of Avenue: Black Undergraduate Internship Program, in collaboration with various Canadian law firms and organizations in…
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REUTERS — Large law firms collectively increased their hiring of diverse summer associates in recent years but struggled to retain those lawyers over time, according to a new report by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Based on lawyer demographic data submitted by 225 large law firms, it found that 36% of 2020’s summer associates – law students…
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NALP — Let’s begin with law schools. The humanizing legal education movement, among others, has called for substantive changes in legal education for over a decade and is credited with improving the learning environments in many law schools. Those changes include a demonstrated respect for students, a focus on collaborative learning, increased assessments and feedback, attention…
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REUTERS — Law firm Goodwin Procter this week told its U.S. lawyers and staff that working in the office will be “entirely voluntary” until mid-March, citing the evolving state of the pandemic. The Boston-founded law firm had been “encouraging” lawyers to work in the office at least two days per week starting in November, and had planned…
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JD SUPRA — Have you ever felt that all your achievements are a fraud? That your professional accomplishments can be attributed to luck and you don’t deserve to be a lawyer? You’re not alone. That feeling is called the ‘impostor syndrome’, a phenomenon that can be experienced by people of all professions, lawyers included. Impostor syndrome plants a…
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ABA JOURNAL — Although artificial intelligence has been the subject of academic research since the 1950s and has been used commercially in some industries for decades, it is still in its infancy across much of the broader economy. The rapid adoption of this technology, along with the unique privacy, security and liability issues associated with it, has…
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MICROSOFT — In 2008, we launched the Law Firm Diversity Program (LFDP) to reward our law firm partners who make progress in diversifying their workforce. We are committed to accelerating this progress, and in the last 13 years, we’ve seen consistent and steady progress in legal workforce diversification, including an almost 33% increase of hours worked…
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ABA JOURNAL — How do you take time off from work and go on parental leave, yet maintain important relationships with people in your network? As a new parent, this can be particularly difficult with the demands of a newborn child: feedings every two hours, recovery from the delivery process (and pregnancy in general), sleepless nights,…
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YAHOO! — ALM’s Law.com, the legal industry’s most reputable and trusted media platform, is launching OnPractice, a new law firm content syndication platform (URL: onpractice.law.com). Law.com OnPractice presents law firm practice advisories, blogs and other content in an editorially relevant and easy-to-read format for in-house counsel. Content is organized by topic, region, and by law firm, and…
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REUTERS — Law firms experienced rate and demand increases in 2021 at levels not seen in over a decade, but should moderate their expectations somewhat for next year, according to a report released on Thursday. Lawyer rates grew 6.5% and demand increased 6.6%, in the first three quarters of the year over 2020, according to Citi Private…
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