I was young, single, healthy, confident and “bulletproof” when I entered law school immediately after college in 1978. I did not have any personal experience with anyone suffering mental health challenges. Mental health education and services were the furthest things from my mind.
A former paralegal is under investigation for the unlicensed practice of law for allegedly holding herself out as an attorney in Chatham County, Georgia, for a period of years.
As the legal industry braces for technological disruption, paralegals are facing scrutiny, raising questions about the compatibility of human expertise with the efficiency of machine intelligence.
A Swiss oil trading company alleges in a lawsuit that a Baker & Hostetler partner was either fooled by a con artist claiming to be a secret CIA operative or was a conspirator in the man’s scheme.
A federal judge has allowed a disappointed pistachio ice cream consumer to proceed with her deceptive-practices case against the corporation that owns Cold Stone Creamery.
To better advise artificial intelligence decisions, lawyers should know the benefits, shortcomings and best practices of incorporating insurance into AI risk management.
A woman who served six months in prison at Rikers Island in New York as a teenager passed the bar exam on the first try, a moment captured in a viral video posted to TikTok.
If you want to get hired by Sullivan & Cromwell, be prepared for an “extremely vigilant” review of your background for clues that you participated in or created “a climate of harassment, intimidation and discrimination,” according to the law firm’s senior chair.
The former chief financial officer of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1.5 million from the law firm over a six-year period and failing to pay more than $22,000 in state income taxes.
A partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith is alleging that a federal judge pushed him and challenged him to a fight when they were working at the same law firm in 2008.
An associate at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith was fatally shot at a McDonald’s in Houston on Saturday after trying to calm an angry customer who was dissatisfied with his order, according to Houston police.
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