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Legal marketing 101: Don’t kiss, do tell
"Don't kiss your clients, but market like you want to." Yes, it's a pretty racy proposition for a profession that was just told not to friend jurors on Facebook. But that's the advice that Avvo.com founder and CEO Mark Britton gives solos and small firms.
ABA limits use of social media to investigate jurors
Lawyers can look, but they can’t “like” when seeking information about jurors and prospective jurors on social media, the American Bar Association states in an ethics opinion released Thursday.
State’s law grads still face long odds
A lower percentage of Maryland students found jobs requiring bar passage last year, with each law school’s figures falling below the national average of 62.2 percent, the American Bar Association reported.
Franceschi elected a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel
Kristin H.R. Franceschi, partner in the Baltimore office of law firm DLA Piper, was recently elected a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel.
Learning from ‘Rosie the Lawyer’
The presence of women in the nation’s courtrooms has come a long way since 1972, when a scant 9.4 percent of those enrolled in Juris Doctor degree programs were female — in 2010, that number was 47.2 percent, according to the American Bar Association.
Lawyers fight homelessness
The American Bar Association is taking a major step to fight homelessness.
ABA moves back law school graduate employment survey
The measure was passed by only one vote and the controversy has already begun.
Holder: Rethink mandatory minimums for drug crimes
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation’s prisons with low-level drug […]
Law firms embrace the philosophy of ‘knowledge management’ in hopes of not being the people who lose the dinosaur
Imagine that your law firm has, squirreled away somewhere in storage, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. You own the bones of a six-ton prehistoric beast that could net big bucks and inspire envy among paleontologists everywhere.
Law school job rates drop
Fewer students graduating from Maryland’s two law schools are finding jobs, but a greater number are obtaining employment that requires bar passage, according to data from the American Bar Association.
Simms appointed to ABA committee
Stuart O. Simms, a partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP in Baltimore, has been appointed to the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law.
