by RG | Jan 28, 2025 | above the law
Did you ever sit down, watch “Shawshank Redemption,” and think to yourself: There are real lessons in here for how I should manage my law firm? Well, if you haven’t, An Ruda of Bartko sure has. The managing partner of a midsize San Francisco law firm makes her...
by RG | Jan 28, 2025 | above the law
Last fall, Wolters Kluwer released the sixth annual installment of the Future Ready Lawyer report. Time has flown and the legal profession has moved just as quickly, if not faster. Consider the inaugural 2019 survey that asked 700 lawyers across the U.S. and Europe to...
by RG | Jan 28, 2025 | above the law
Generative AI burst on the scene and bestowed every 6th grader with the power to not do the reading and turn in a passable one-page essay anyway. It also provided some very lazy lawyers with some very embarrassing moments. That said, the technology held out so much...
by RG | Jan 28, 2025 | above the law
If Stefan Passantino wants to be remembered for something other than his disastrous representation of Cassidy Hutchinson, he could start by shutting up about it. The former Trump ethics lawyer sued MSNBC commentator Andrew Weissman for defamation and filed a bar...
by RG | Jan 28, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I think the question is less about how committed most law firms are to diversity and inclusion and more so how they frame their views and what words they use when talking...
by RG | Jan 28, 2025 | above the law
Contracts are the backbone of commerce, but they often create friction, delay, and unnecessary expense. In Season 10, Episode 7 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” I sat down with Jake Stein, co-founder and CEO of Common Paper, to explore how standard contracts can...
