Thursday 30th Apr 2020
Social media use is skyrocketing, as people connect with friends and family as shelter-in-place and work-from-home continue. But as we take advantage as these apps, it’s still important to be careful. But people with bad intentions may also be seeing and looking to take advantage of the personal & professional information that you’re posting. Robert ...
Thursday 30th Jan 2020
HighQ is regarded as one of the most advanced and versatile technology platforms. Stuart Barr, Chief Product & Strategy Officer for HighQ, discusses how HighQ improves efficiency for law firms and corporate legal departments, and how the recent version 5.3 release takes HighQ to a new level. To listen to the podcast, click on the ...
Monday 4th Nov 2019
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has served on the bench for nearly forty years. She was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 after serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit. Prior to that, she was a professor of law at both Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School teaching civil ...
Tuesday 8th Oct 2019
The law and the courts have undergone many changes over the years. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses what she believes is “the most heartening change” in the legal profession. Episode 4 of our special podcast series marking the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice & Procedure is a discussion ...
Monday 23rd Sep 2019
As we continue our special series of podcasts on the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice & Procedure, we’re pleased to announce that our upcoming episodes will feature a discussion between Professor Arthur Miller, one of the treatise’s founding authors, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the United ...
Friday 20th Sep 2019
The Antonio Brown saga continues to spawn new revelations involving the New England Patriots wide receiver. On the heels of the NFL initiating an investigation into allegations of sexual assault stemming from a civil lawsuit filed by Brown’s former personal trainer, an attorney representing a painter commissioned by Brown has asked the NFL to investigate allegations ...
Thursday 12th Sep 2019
The cases Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal still reverberate through the Federal court system for placing new standards on specificity and “plausibility” in pleadings. Similarly, cases such as World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson are still much discussed and debated for their impact on personal jurisdiction. Episode 3 of our special podcast ...
Monday 12th Aug 2019
The Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color white paper provides insights from attorneys on how legal employers can help create opportunities for lawyers of color across the industry. The white paper involved interviews with 23 attorneys of color across generations, ethnicities, geographic locations, and segments of the industry. During these discussions, attorneys of color ...
Wednesday 17th Jul 2019
It’s a story almost too incredible to believe. Ron Stallworth was the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department. In 1978, he answered a classified ad and infiltrated the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. His book, Black Klansman, race, hate and the undercover investigation of a lifetime is an incredible read, ...
Tuesday 25th Jun 2019
Class action lawsuits have undergone many changes in recent years as a result of U.S. Supreme Court decisions and changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Episode 2 of our special podcast series marking the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice & Procedure discusses those changes as well ...
Tuesday 18th Jun 2019
The Elite VANTAGE 2019 Worldwide User Conference is underway in San Diego. Thousands of Elite cusomters are there to network, share learnings and hear about the latest developments at Elite This is the 25th VANTAGE conference. Twenty-five years ago, firms were running WordPerfect on Novell networks and using Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets. Needless to say, ...
Tuesday 30th Apr 2019
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice & Procedure, one of the most respected and enduring legal treatises. The treatise has been cited by federal courts over 90,000 times, according to Westlaw estimates, and by the United States Supreme Court every year since 1973. In honor ...
Monday 15th Apr 2019
Know how to bust some sweet dance moves? You might want to find a good attorney. Epic Games, maker of Fortnite and NBA 2K has put the Carlton Dance into some of its video games, and the actor who portrayed Carlton on The Fresh Prince, Alfonso Ribeiro, is suing, saying Epic Games is unfairly profiting ...
