The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? What better way to use those skills in a professional environment than as a lawyer? Do you think where you went to school has any bearing on your success?

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Lawyers must be able to be strong advocates for themselves, as well as their clients. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? As I mentioned above, I started as a litigator in a law firm.

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Above The Law

MAY 19, 2025

Suits promotional image If you’ve ever watched Suits and thought, “I should’ve faked my way into this soul-sucking lawyer gig and avoided all the crushing law school debt,” rest assured that, no, you should not have. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

People aren’t used to this — especially from lawyers. Rick DeMedeiros of DeMedeiros Injury Law. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law?

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2025

Lets get one thing straight: there are many ways for a lawyer to mess up a case. Casting your client as a carbon copy of an earlier, favorable case is the whole point of a common law system. Lawyers aren’t ethically obligated to generate bespoke, artisanal complaints for each client. But it’s not law school.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School explored law firm work allocation in 2017 , longtime partners confirmed that traditional work allocation has an implicit bias toward associates who can easily develop relationships with partners. “An Underrepresented Groups Can be Overlooked.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

.” It’s a test that labors under the insane, antiquated notion that the practice of law is defined by an M&A lawyer memorizing the rules of evidence for a closed-book exam. And it’s a test that delivers a lawyer population demonstrably no better or worse at serving the public as having no test at all.

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Above The Law

APRIL 23, 2025

But it declined to acknowledge significant problems with its multiple-choice questions even as it revealed that a subset of questions were recycled from a first-year law student exam, while others were developed with the assistance of AI by ACS Ventures, the State Bars independent psychometrician. Ron Hubbard book.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 28, 2022

Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series focuses on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Stetson University College of Law, J.D. There, I graduated from college at University College London and enrolled in the college of law to pursue my dream of becoming a lawyer.

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Above The Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Getting into the NBA Draft is as much about lawyering as anything else. The post Law Student Declares For NBA Draft Like Any Good Lawyer Would… On A Technicality appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 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. The post California Bar Exam Managed To Be Even Worse Than Expected appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * Forbes is doing a lawyer ranking. Forbes ] * Reacting to Biglaw's open letter on campus antisemitism, law school deans "unsure, though, what the letter is asking the schools to do." American Lawyer ] * American lawyer pulls gun and kills two environmental protesters in Panama.

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Law Prose

OCTOBER 12, 2022

We know lawyers who are avid gardeners, sports fans, musicians, oenophiles, philatelists, car enthusiasts, and golfers. But how many lawyers know as much about using the language well as they do about their favorite hobby? The fact is that lawyers earn their fees for only two types of performance: speaking and writing.

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Above The Law

MAY 11, 2023

* The new US News rankings are out for everyone to complain about and the final tally of boycotting law schools rests at 63. Bloomberg Law News ] * Fani Willis drops objection to Kimberly Debrow now that the lawyer has shed a couple more clients. Congratulations. And all it cost is some self-imposed elder abuse.

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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.” Research training…….

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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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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 12, 2024

Written by Rishi Gulati After a highly successful first series, all episodes of UEA Law School’s Second Podcast Series hosted by Rishi Gulati are now available on leading platforms, including on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and SoundCloud. There are two episodes on climate change litigation.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Target customer: Medium to large firms, particularly those in the 100-200 range of Am Law’s rankings. Founded: 9/8/2018.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Earlier : California Bar Exam Disaster Reaches Its Offer Everyone A Refund Stage 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.

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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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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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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) does not always require a specific arbitration agreement between the parties for conferring jurisdiction on it. Instead, the CAS may accept a sports related dispute if the statutes or regulations designate that it has jurisdiction.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Target customer: Medium to large firms, particularly those in the 100-200 range of Am Law’s rankings. Founded: 9/8/2018.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Have people to bounce ideas off of: those people can be other lawyers, but also make sure you are talking to people who are NOT lawyers as well. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law?

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As a lawyer, I have learned that effective presence is an equal companion to competence, character, compassion and courage. Norman Harris – Champions for Justice Law. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. I have a small community-based firm.

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Connor Reporting

MARCH 19, 2025

Veritext [link] Delia Opekokew First First Nations woman lawyer to ever be admitted to the bar association in Ontario and in Saskatchewan. Delia Opekokew is a Cree lawyer and writer from the Canoe Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. Bolin, a lawyer and the first black person to graduate from Williams College.

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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

APRIL 21, 2025

If you’re one of those lawyers toiling away at the firm and dreaming of a nice in-house job, consider the plight of this chief legal officer. Minor Character Theater has a mockumentary profiling a trying time in the life of Rutgers Law grad Brian Finklebar, former general counsel to the Wonka company.

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Above The Law

MAY 20, 2025

.” Because Maggie Hassan has a law degree, unlike Noem or Miller. Perhaps it’s a problem that the most immediately pressing question of constitutional law is being managed by a pair of non-lawyers. Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer.

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Above The Law

APRIL 8, 2025

For many lawyers, landing new business in a pitch meeting is the highlight of the week — or even the year, depending on the size of the client. Bringing in new business and becoming a successful rainmaker elevates your status at any law firm. So why do most lawyers avoid business development? What happens next?

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

.” It’s a subject he can certainly speak to based on his experience — even if the first Trump administration maintained the appearance of a Justice Department beholden to the government and the Constitution as opposed to its now explicit mission as Trump’s personal lawyers. Probably not. Like: I mean, come on!

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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

MARCH 4, 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. Ya think?!? Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

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. The post The California Bar Exam Is a Disaster.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

When Kafka wrote Before the Law , he meant to describe the surreal hellscape of standing “before” the law, not the surreal hellscape of applicants “before” they become lawyers. Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer.

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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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