For your reading pleasure and information needs, check out the following articles below:
For law students:
1. 1L of a Ride: The Top Five Habits of Successful Law Students (webinar) ;
2. Advice for the Multistate Performance Test ;
3. Character Is Essential for New Lawyers: Skills Not So Much ;
4. Competition Videos–ABA for Law Students ;
5. Diversity, Consumer Groups at Odds Over Tougher Bar Pass Rules Proposed for Law Schools;
7. The Dos and Don’ts of Your First Job ;
9. U.S Receives Thousands of Comments on Proposed Student Debt Loan Forgiveness Rules ;
10. What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know ; and
11. What Skills Should New Lawyers Have?
For lawyers: practice opportunities, suggestions and tips:
1. 15 Legal Billing Practices: The Good and the Bad;
2. Avoid the Temptation to Practice Threshold Law ;
3. Building a Company Culture of Trust ;
4. Cuba Special Report: Making Deals, Doing Business, Hitting the Beach ;
5. For God’s Sake, Think Before You Email ;
6. Going Paperless in a Law Firm Can Work Practically ;
7. How Much Do Solo Lawyers Make? More Than IRS Data Suggests, Law Prof Asserts ;
8. Is Skype Safe for Attorney-Client Communication? ;
9. Law Firm Website Basics: Typography, SEO, and Security ;
10. Lawyer Accused of Sexting Appointed Client Gets Interim Suspension ;
11. Legal Practice Management: How to Address the Top Challenges Faced by Today’s Small Firms ;
12. The 6 Types of Lawyer Movies ;
13. The Agony of Invoices: When it Comes to Math, Humans Are No Match for Machines ;
14. The Judgment Machine: How Algorithmic Software Won Me Over ;
15. The Key Trait That Lawyers and Law Firms of the Future Will Need: Flexibility ;
16. What to Expect (Will Happen to Your Career) When You’re Expecting ; and
17. U.S. Law Firms Expand into Latin America at a Record Pace .
On legal education, the United States Supreme Court, and miscellanea
1. ABA Releases Report on State of Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession ;
2. After School Satan Clubs Are Planned to Counter Bible Clubs ;
3. Drivers Are Pulled Over for Driving without an Ice Cream Cone: Are the Stops Unconstitutional? ;
4. Fourth Circuit Strikes NC Voter ID Law, Finding “Discriminatory Intent” ;
5. Meteoric Rise of Pokemon Go Spurs Privacy Concerns;
6. Supreme Court Temporarily Stays 4th Circuit’s Ruling on Title IX and Transgender Rights ;
7. When Sandra Day O’Connor Broke into the Men’s Club; and
8. Widespread Confusion Over the Rules of the Road for Bicyclists Leads to Clashes.
Happy reading!