Evolving Legal Profession (Apr 5, 2017)

Recent reports on diversity and inclusion within in law firms, corporations, and the workplace at large.

• "Law firms use data to judge lateral hires' potential success," ABA Journal

• "Emory Law Dean to Step Down In July," Daily Report

• "Low-Cost Bar Prep Materials? Unbundling To Drive Down Costs," Above the Law

• "Law school debt — and private school tuition revenue — may be declining," ABA Journal

• "Law Firm Spinoffs an Option as Lawyers Look to Go Lean," The Legal Intelligencer

• "What Does It Take to Climb Up the Ladder?," The New York Times

• "IBM's Watson Makes New Inroads Into Legal With Discovery, Business Research Offerings," Legaltech News

• "In a First, Major UK Client Says No to Paying for Junior Lawyers," The American Lawyer

• "Learning From Failure at the Oscars," Slaw

• "Which lawyers will win or lose in front of which judges? There's now an app to predict that," Legal Post

• "Bar Groups Gear Up to Preserve Legal Services Funding," New York Law Journal

• "ABA President Klein reaffirms commitment to endangered LSC," ABA Journal

• "AI Is Doing Legal Work. But It Won't Replace Lawyers, Yet," New York Times

• "No Corner Offices in the Law Firms of the Future (And That's Not a Bad Thing!)," The Recorder

• "Too Many New Lawyers? Build a Wall?," Slaw

• "The Lawyer Licensing System in Ontario," Slaw

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