At a trial beginning this week, an associate is airing a claim that her Garden City, N.Y., law firm discriminated against her by cutting her pay while she was pregnant.
In a trend that obviously has significant implications for law firms and their clients, banks increasing are arranging for much of their work to be done outside world financial centers…
Noting that the legal profession is in a “work/life crisis” with 78 percent of associates leaving firms by year five and nearly half of women lawyers leaving the profession altogether,…
When higher-ups at a Long Island elder law and estate planning firm realized that more than half the firm’s staff didn’t have their own affairs in order, managers took action.
H. Thomas Wells Jr., who officially begins his term as ABA president Monday, announced the launch of two new association initiatives during a morning news conference in New York City,…
Among those who inhabit Second Life—a virtual world on the Internet where individuals interact through electronic alter egos known as avatars, is the SL Bar Association,…
With historic Ellis Island as the backdrop, outgoing Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section chair Peter Bennett kicked off the section’s meeting Friday night by reinforcing his commitment to diversity.
Technology has made the world a smaller place. It’s made it possible to talk to someone from around the world over a computer, to buy a product from another country,…