The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The problem is, those brand new positions may be sporting brand new titles and you haven’t a clue what to look for anymore. Let me give you an example: A couple of months ago, my client, one of the biggest law firms in the world, called me and told me they wanted a “Professional Development Innovative Specialist.” Seriously??

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 28, 2022

I graduated from law school here in Florida, receiving the highest grade in our class on constitutional law because I was genuinely fascinated by our separation of powers and checks and balances, given how different it was from my birth country. What was your experience like after graduating from law school?

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For over 20 years, as a former senior legal officer for a Fortune 50 company, Sheila Murphy successfully developed, coached, and transformed talent in corporate America, and law firms. However, in law school, my focus switched to corporate law because I was a severe introvert with a fear of public speaking.

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LexForti

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

International Cell, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad (SLS-H) is organizing a 3-Day National Webinar Series on Opportunities of Higher legal education in foreign countries, from 21-23 February, 2022. Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad was established in the year 2014 and has now successfully blossomed into one of the premier law schools.

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LexForti

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

International Cell, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad (SLS-H) is organizing a 3-Day National Webinar Series on Opportunities of Higher legal education in foreign countries, from 21-23 February, 2022. Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad was established in the year 2014 and has now successfully blossomed into one of the premier law schools.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Yes, from high school on, I knew I wanted to be an attorney, but I wasn’t entirely sure in which area I would specialize. However, by the time I graduated from law school, I was already gravitating toward workers’ compensation. It has forced lawyers and law firms to fast forward into the 21st Century.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Elevator pitch: Affordable cybersecurity solutions are lacking and 29% of law firms have suffered a security breach.

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SimplyLawJobs

MAY 21, 2021

My parents practice law so it has been a big part of my life from a very young age. I finally joined law school at the age of 19 after achieving top marks in all my subjects at college. I spent 5 amazing years at law school learning my craft. From law school, I joined Burges Salmon as a junior.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Elevator pitch: Affordable cybersecurity solutions are lacking and 29% of law firms have suffered a security breach.

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InHouseOps

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I earned my BA in film, television, and theatre from the University of Notre Dame, then went to Quinnipiac University School of Law thinking I would love litigation; something about being in a courtroom seemed to dovetail nicely with a theatre background. An obvious role of the law department, as I just mentioned, is to minimize risk.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

After graduating from LaGrange College, I completed my Masters in Divinity at Emory University Candler School of Theology. Successfully matriculating through college and graduate school provided me the necessary self-assurance to embrace law school as my next challenge, and I did it! I have a small community-based firm.

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Connor Reporting

MARCH 19, 2025

After meeting Benjamin Harrison while working at a law firm, Alice Sanger became the first woman to join the official White House staff in 1890. Bolin graduated in the top 20 of her class in 1928. in Alameda County. Jane Bolin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on April 11, 1908.

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Above The Law

MAY 13, 2025

(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) While the federal government is busy slashing university spending and tax status or claiming donors to groups filing civil rights claims against the government are definitionally threats to national security , a lot of law firms and law schools have remained silent.

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Above The Law

MAY 14, 2025

Because despite an ever increasing number of cautionary tales about lawyers ill-advisedly letting G(PT)sus take the wheel, another pair of law firms have bumbled their way into sanctions. No one went to law school because they were good at math, but that’s one-third of the total citations.

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Above The Law

APRIL 8, 2025

Bringing in new business and becoming a successful rainmaker elevates your status at any law firm. And yes, I know: They never taught this in law school. I noticed you post a lot about your kids sports on Facebook. And yes, I know — you werent taught this in law school. But thats in the past.

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Above The Law

MAY 20, 2025

Mostly, I’m thinking about law school students. When they start signing up for on-campus interviews — to the extent they still exist — what’s the best way to describe the new category of law firm willing to shell out some pro bono payola to avoid having to take Donald Trump to court?

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Above The Law

MARCH 18, 2025

With the momentum of a grand freight train of cowardice, more and more law firms scramble to scrub their public profile of any indication that they’ve ever cared about diversity. Yet, will this subterfuge even end up helping law firms avoid government retaliation?

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

MARCH 17, 2025

While Paul Weiss joins the ranks of law firms explicitly targeted for retaliation from the Trump administration, most of Biglaw remains comfortable with the old adage that “a quiet life is a happy life”… or more accurately “silence is complicity.” Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments.

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Above The Law

APRIL 23, 2025

As more Biglaw firms sell out their integrity in exchange for relief from illegal retaliation from the Trump administration, lawyers and clients are distancing themselves from the settling firms. Some law students have already walked away from recruiting efforts by these firms.

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Above The Law

MARCH 10, 2025

Already, Biglaw firms have deleted diversity language from their websites and embarked on a chilling silence campaign in the wake of the administration’s retaliatory strike on Covington. In fact, law firms can keep billing clients like fiends while standing up for the better angels of our nature.

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Above The Law

MAY 15, 2025

Jonathan Mitchell, who you might remember from masterminding the Texas abortion vigilante law that even this Supreme Court dismissed as rank clownery , quarterbacks FASORP’s latest effort against his alma mater Chicago. The post Anonymous FedSoc Snitches Needed For Super-Awesome Gossip-Based Lawsuit Against Law Review!

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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Above The Law

APRIL 18, 2025

It’s one of the most pipeline-heavy law schools in the country, sending graduates into elite Biglaw firms and government posts on greased tracks. And there are law schools out there right now gleefully courting authoritarianism if it gets them an extra Aileen Cannon clerkship to report to US News.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard Law School, he clerked on the U.S. After stepping down as Missouri’s solicitor general, Sauer formed his own law firm, the James Otis Law Group. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for Judge J. The Supreme Court declined to take up his petition for review.

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Above The Law

APRIL 19, 2025

And as lawyers we have obligations not to facilitate or effectuate efforts to undermine the rule of law. If a law school professor wouldnt have entertained this s**t on a final exam, why should we platform it in a news cycle? Paul Clement is defending law firms against Trumps authoritarian demands.

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