There's no denying that law firms have gone through significant changes in the last decade. These changes continue to create unprecedented challenges for modern law firms today. So, what's next?
Jul 11, 2019 12:00 PM CDT
The good news for anyone aspiring to a life of crime is that you may be a multiple offender of federal criminal laws without even being aware of it.
Jun 20, 2019 4:12 PM CDT
For new law graduates and associates going into the world of BigLaw, the stakes have never been higher—and neither have the expectations.
Jun 5, 2019 6:30 AM CDT
For every lawyer who thinks they have oral presentations down pat, there’s another who has anxiety about talking in front of a crowd. And they both need help. May 22, 2019 6:00 AM CDT
The finalists for the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction have been announced, and now readers will have a chance to weigh in. The books nominated for the ninth annual award are The Boat People, by Sharon Bala; Class Action, by Steven B. Frank; and The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey.
May 14, 2019 10:00 AM CDT
A series of suspicious deaths; a murder at a victim’s funeral; a minister whom locals suspected was dabbling in voodoo; a gregarious Alabama lawyer and politician called Big Tom; and…
May 8, 2019 7:35 AM CDT
Like everyone else, police are inundated with new gadgets and technologies promised to make their jobs easier. But do they? In his new book, Thin Blue Lie, investigative journalist Matt Stroud digs deeps into the background of various police technologies' promises and perils. Apr 24, 2019 8:54 AM CDT
You have to network to get work, but it doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Carol Schiro Greenwald spends her time teaching law firms to grow their businesses and their profitability,…
Apr 10, 2019 8:41 AM CDT
Cara Robertson has been fascinated by the ax murders of Andrew and Abby Borden—and the daughter who stood trial for those murders—since she was an undergrad at Harvard University nearly…
Mar 20, 2019 6:30 AM CDT
Kenneth Imo spent years playing college football for Southern Methodist University, working his way up in the U.S. Air Force and leading the charge for diversity in two international law firms. Imo mined his experiences for his book, Fix It: How History, Sports, and Education Can Inform Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Today. Mar 6, 2019 7:05 AM CST
The 10 years that Dave Cullen spent researching and reporting on the 1999 shootings in Littleton, Colorado, for his book Columbine were so draining that he experienced secondary PTSD. So on Feb. 14, 2018, when he heard about the shootings at Margery Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, he had no initial intention of writing about them. But in the nearly 20 years since the Columbine shootings changed our expectations about school safety, there had been a number of changes—including what the children directly impacted were able to do to change our national conversations about gun laws.
Feb 20, 2019 6:00 AM CST
Blockchain's a buzzword, but what does it mean? In this episode of the Modern Law Library, our guests James A. Cox and Mark W. Rasmussen give a breakdown of what blockchain is, the emerging legal issues the technology is prompting, and why Jones Day thinks that it's an important emerging practice area. Feb 11, 2019 8:10 AM CST
From the earliest days of the U.S. Supreme Court, alcohol has been part of the work lives and social lives of the justices. In the book Glass and Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol, Nancy Maveety takes readers on a tour through the ways that SCOTUS and spirits have overlapped. Jan 23, 2019 6:00 AM CST
“Fake it till you make it.” For Heidi K. Brown, trying to mimic her extroverted peers in litigation always felt forced. She…
Jan 9, 2019 6:00 AM CST
A new year, a new you? Stewart Levine has spent over three decades speaking to legal professionals after suffering from burnout as a lawyer himself. His new book—The Best Lawyer You Can Be: A Guide to Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Wellness—combines personal experiences and essays from industry leaders, meant to inspire far beyond January’s best intentions.
Dec 19, 2018 7:00 AM CST
All judges have cases that stick with them and linger in their memories. Sometimes it was because of the high profile of the case, and sometimes an obscure case had personal resonance because of the people or issues involved. In Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They've Ever Made, readers can learn the backstories to some of these decisions. Dec 5, 2018 6:00 AM CST
“Show me the money!” After navigating the ups and downs of being an agent, Darren Heitner pursued another avenue that combined his love of negotiation and athletics: sports law. With…
Nov 20, 2018 4:05 PM CST
Ken Starr has been a D.C. Circuit Court judge, a law school dean and the U.S. solicitor general. But he is best known for his work in the Office of the Independent Counsel and the report that came to colloquially bear his name.
Nov 7, 2018 7:00 AM CST
Data informs, and in some cases controls, every aspect of modern life. Well, almost every aspect. “If you look at finance or medicine or sports, almost every other thing in the world is using data to make better decisions,” says Ed Walters. “Everything except law.” Oct 24, 2018 6:00 AM CDT
Three in 10 American women who are 45 or older have had an abortion, Katie Watson, author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law & Politics of Ordinary Abortion, tells the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles. For women 44 and younger, one in four are projected to have an abortion in their lifetime. Yet for all the fiery rhetoric about the legality of abortion, Watson–who teaches bioethics, medical humanities and constitutional law at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine–has found a reluctance by people to discuss their own personal experiences with abortion, or even the nuances of their views on its ethics. Oct 10, 2018 6:10 AM CDTA curmudgeon’s tips for making it in BigLaw
Public speaking skills every lawyer should master
Help select the winner of the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction
The strange tale of the ‘Voodoo reverend’ and Harper Lee’s lost true-crime book
Why tech tools can have promise and peril for policing
How introverts can make networking work for them
Did an ax murderer go free? ‘The Trial of Lizzie Borden’ examines the evidence
Former JAG Corps captain draws from history and sports for diversity advice
From Columbine to Parkland: How have school shootings changed us?
Building blockchain expertise into a practice that pays
Supreme Court’s history with alcohol gets a look in ‘Glass and Gavel’
How introverted lawyers can harness their traits for success
How to avoid burnout and be ‘The Best Lawyer You Can Be’
3 trial court judges discuss the some of the hardest cases of their career
Sports lawyer shares how he turned a love for athletics into a career
Ken Starr shares his side of the Clinton investigation in ‘Contempt’
How to stop worrying and learn to love data-driven law
We need to talk about abortion, says author of ‘Scarlet A’
