We’ve neglected the second half of lawyers’ professional identity: the civic duty to serve society, defend the rule of law, and support public institutions. It’s time we restored it to equal billing.

The legal profession has “tried effectively to outsource its soul to its regulators” by substituting acting ethically with the absence of illegality, a City law grandee has warned.

More attorneys are leaving top firms to take jobs at artificial intelligence companies, often to perform work outside the legal field, a new report concluded on Thursday, saying the moves have become ...

Massumi + Consoli executives bet new ownership model will allow them to lure partners with equity incentive plans

We’ve neglected the second half of lawyers’ professional identity: the civic duty to serve society, defend the rule of law, and support public institutions. It’s time we restored it to equal billing.

By now you've probably seen the Stanford study making the rounds: 16 contracts professors blind-evaluated student answers and preferred the AI three times out of four — flagging the *human* answers as...

Lawyers want a single interface for their legal tech needs. Who will own it?

Large law firms have grown their non-equity partner tiers at a relatively rapid clip in recent years, with some implementing the position for the first time. For many firms, that means hard decisions ...

Law school graduates will soon be able to earn their license to practice in New Mexico by working under an attorney's supervision and demonstrating their legal skills rather than by taking the bar exa...

Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a sign...

"The challenge will be for in-house lawyers to lead the charge in developing the systems that will replace our old ways of working," said legal technology expert Richard Susskind.

Without pursuing bet-the-company work, Blackstone-backed Norm Law is targeting a significant portion of Big Law’s diet.

The Department of Education has made a preliminary finding that the American Bar Association is not in compliance with the department's regulations and standards as an accreditor of law schools, a mov...

Clients will use AI to travel most of their legal journey themselves, but the last steps to their solution will be the hardest. Lawyers should own that high-value last mile — and price it accordingly.

Exploring the legal profession's dysfunctional relationship with a pricing system that became lawyers' unloved but irreplaceable overlord.

I’ve just posted an article on SSRN that undertakes a granular breakdown of the current and past — as in 16 years ago — finances of almost all ABA-accredited law schools. I conclude that what I call P...

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