Both older and younger lawyers can let all kinds of intergenerational nonsense get in the way of clear thinking. The misunderstandings that result can do actual
At first blush, you might ask what a bionic arm catching objects in mid-flight has to do with the practice of law. I assert: “Everything.”
Who are the lawyers who represent these evolutionary products? Clearly, there will be lots of intellectual property involved, but I say that the list goes on.
Here are just three
In recent years, boutique and even mid-sized firms have begun to offer increasingly specialized ranges 
of legal services. One notable example in this regard was recently the subject of an article in The Philadelphia Business Journal.
Helbraun Levey & O’Donoghue was established in Manhattan in 2005 to meet the specific needs of one industry
“Law Firm Management”, “Law Firm Strategy”
Continue Reading Wisdom from a 92 year-old white-male university professor? No !!
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According to Claude Sheer, CEO of Vault.com., “The Vault/MCCA Legal Diversity Career Fair will offer a hands-on insider’s perspective of the progress that top firms are making to increase diversity and to advise minority, women and GLBT law students and associates
General Mills’ Roderick Palmore
According to Roderick Palmore, executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance and risk management officer at General Mills Inc:
"The statistics speak for themselves. They say our progress in the profession has been disappointing."
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Two notes of optimism today for the legal profession:
“Forget the old stereotypes of law firms as inhospitable to women,” said Suzanne Riss, Editor in Chief, Working Mother magazine. “As Working Mother examined the practices of many of the nation’s law firms, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a number have been quietly changing
“Women at modern-day law firms are so petrified of appearing unproductive that they sometimes conceal cancer or heart attacks to avoid being marginalized” according to Linda Robertson, a veteran Vancouver lawyer as reported in one of Canada’s top National Newspapers, The Globe and Mail, describing a session at The Canadian Bar Association annual meeting held
PROTECT ME!!! The Daily Mail (UK) is either the most fair-minded publication on the planet or the most confused – in an article titled "Women talk three times as much as men, says study" the near-ending reads:
Deborah Cameron, an Oxford University linguistics professor with a special interest in language and gender, said the amount
