Tag: Jill Switzer

The commission is deadlocked on what, if any, alternative pathways to bar admission should be available.

And, of course, the latest from Trump World!

There likely isn't anyone who doesn’t have some form of layoff anxiety.

There is nothing quite like trying a case. How can you become better prepared?

It is left as an exercise for the student to imagine what Tom Girardi's yearly performance review would look like.

It's a new year, with new tragedies already here.

Don’t encourage an apology if the client doesn’t really mean it.

If it doesn’t matter to the powers that be, why should it matter to the junior lawyer?

Barbara Walters wasn’t a lawyer, but she paved the way for all women who sought to break out of the mold that had stifled them in all professions for so long.

As is usually the case, it depends on where you are positioned in the narrative.

The discipline system goes after minority attorneys, especially Black lawyers. That’s not news for us lawyers, but it is for the public.

Succession planning is a task that many, if not all, leaders find joyless but necessary.

It's often too little, too late for many women lawyers -- who through grit, determination, perseverance, and willingness to challenge authority -- to receive the recognition they deserve.

Do you think that lawyers and judges in hindsight ask themselves why they did those stupid, license-lifting, judge-admonishing, reputation-trashing things?

Would any other lawyer have gotten away with this?

John Jay Osborn Jr., author of 'The Paper Chase,' died on October 19.

A lot can happen in five years. A lot doesn't.

It’s no surprise that a recent survey of in-house counsel revealed that they are not necessarily a bunch of happy campers.

Women lawyers must never become complacent, we must never think that the work on a particular issue is settled. The book stresses that point.

The ABA is a classic example of an institution that is still stuck in the past and that refuses to see the world has changed.