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Your Guide In Filing an Insurance Accident Claim
By Jim Dwyer • September 27, 2021 •Issues
You may think that when you pay your premiums and pick up the phone to call when you have a loss, your insurance company will be on your side. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. Insurance companies view their policyholders as adversaries when it comes to claims in order to minimize their payment obligations and maximize profits. The insurer may challenge seemingly insignificant details in an effort to reduce or deny your claim. Understanding what the insurance company is entitled to in terms of its defense against a lawsuit can help you push back when you feel they are…
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Feeling Frustrated? When and How to Stand Up For Yourself At Work
By Anonymous • August 21, 2020 •Careers, Other Career Issues, Issues, Mentoring and Networking, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Other Forms of Discrimination
Are you a type of employee who goes to work confidently, demands a raise when deserved, and often takes advantage of vacation-offs anytime you want- congratulations on having a steel nerve and confidence! However, in reality, not everyone stands up for themselves at work, and most of the time, it's the other way around. It often feels scary, and all of the things mentioned above, for a regular worker, seems impossible to do. If these things sound familiar to you and you've been dealing with all of these issues for the longest time since you got employed - you are…
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What Can Law Firm Leaders Learn from a Pandemic?
By Susan Smith Blakely • April 23, 2020 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector
Law firm leaders come in all shapes, sizes, skin colors and backgrounds. They are both male and female, young and old. Some are effective, and some are not. And the differences in their effectiveness as leaders are especially apparent during a challenging time like a pandemic, which changes all the traditional rules in a very traditional profession. Like wheat and chaff, like milk and cream. Only the best rise to the top --- or, at least, that is the way it should work. So, what can effective leaders learn from a pandemic. It is an odd question, but it needs…
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Four Expenses That May Not Be in Your Law Firm’s Budget
By Dennis Hung • January 02, 2019 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector
Running a successful law firm requires you to attract and retain clients as well as to provide exceptional service on a consistent basis. More than that, you need to properly manage your law firm’s budget and finances so that you regularly operate in the black. Unfortunately, there are several expenses that are common in law firm operations and that may be easy to overlook. As you review and update your law firm’s budget, consider if these commonly-overlooked expenses may need to be incorporated in your firm's financial plan. Equipment Repairs and Replacements A typical law firm has many types…
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An Investment - In Perspective
By Amy Impellizzeri • July 30, 2018 •Writers in Residence
I speak to a lot of lawyers looking to transition from the practice of law, and recently I’ve realized that the most important message for those transitioning professionals is not that transition is indeed possible, but rather to manage the expectations surrounding the transition. Here are some common responses I hear when I tell my story - now with the perspective of a decade away from the practice of law - nearly a decade since I last worked at Skadden Arps. There’s got to be an easier way to make a living. I just need to find a job where…
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Failure Turned Inside Out: The Not So Gentle Ladies of the United States Congress
By Patricia Jjemba • July 31, 2017 •Writers in Residence, Careers, Nonprofits and the Public Interest, Politics and Government, Other Career Issues, Law School, Choosing a Career and Landing a Job, Issues, •Balancing Private and Professional Life, Mentoring and Networking, Women and Law in the Media, Other Issues
The women that serve daily on behalf of the American people are fierce trailblazers in their own right. As a means to seemingly promote gender equality, there is a new term that has been floating around the United States Congress. You see, as of late congressional members have been referring to their female House representatives and Senate members as “gentle-ladies.” (Example: The gentle lady from California will now address the House.) Now whatever your personal opinion is on the alluring appeal (or lack there of) of the term itself, there is one thing I think that we can all come…
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So You want to be An International Lawyer: Keynote in Reproductive Health in a Pluralist Legal World
By ilise feitshans • April 03, 2017 •Features, Superwomen JDs and What You Can Learn From Them
The sound of freedom that resonates from civil and political rights rings hollow to a newborn who has low birth weight, because the baby's mother had no access to a clean workplace, good nutrition or adequate prenatal care. And, what good are political and civil rights to a different baby, whose Mom died in childbirth or who has lost a parent due to an accident, or whose parents are debilitated by occupational disease, or to the baby who may suffer personal injury due to the effects of a parent's exposure to toxic substances, or whose father has terminal cancer? The…
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A Word on the Use of “That,” “Of,” and Variants of “It is”
By Anna Swift • March 05, 2017 •Writers in Residence
As a judicial clerk, I quickly learned I enjoyed using the word "that." I also apparently enjoyed using the word "of." How do I know this? My co-clerks, who were assigned the task of initially editing the drafts of judicial opinions I had written, weren't as crazy about those words and expressed their preference with red circles to indicate deletion. In other words, those were words commonly edited out of my drafts (and for good reason). For my part, I tried to avoid the construction "it is" or "there are" when not referring to an actual antecedent and partook in some circling…
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New Clerk on the Block: Reflecting on Three Years of Law School
By Marlow Svatek • June 02, 2016 •Writers in Residence, Law School, Other Law School Issues
Three years, 6 papers, 25 final exams, and 280 hours of clinical work have finally culminated in this: graduation.* Law students enjoy complaining about law school. We wear our worst cold calls and our most tedious cite checks as badges of honor. 3Ls advise their 1L mentees that they just need to “survive” the dreaded 1L year. And I’ve overheard law students try to out-busy each other with how little sleep they got because of a paper deadline or an upcoming exam. When you view law school through this lens, graduating seems like the light at the end of a…
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Sisters-in-Law/Then and Now—“The Petticoat Element—Women’s Entry Into Law Schools”
By Bari Burke • February 12, 2016 •Writers in Residence
Imagine that you are woman who wanted to study, and maybe even practice, law in the late nineteenth century. No one in your family is a lawyer. What might you learn from newspaper articles about life as a female law student? What stories might you find? First some background: In the late nineteenth century, neither the legal profession nor the study of law was particularly welcoming to women. Law was the profession most inhospitable to women; in 1870, there were five women lawyers and 40,731 male attorneys in the United States. And a little more background: An aspiring lawyer could…Connect with us
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