Lots to chew on this week.
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Biglaw summer associate let go after biting upwards of 15 people at the firm. Now that sounds crazy, but that's because it is. We also discuss a lawyer's biting response to a demand letter. A lot of the professional decorum advocates objected to the tone, but at a certain point how does the profession pushback against aggre ... Show More
Yesterday
Historic Justice: Investigating Cruelty and Death at Florida’s Dozier School for Boys
For over a century, The Dozier School for Boys held dark secrets behind its gates. Allegations of abuse, forced labor, and unexplained deaths had often come up throughout its history, but the full reality of what happened during its time in operation was largely unknown. Maggie M ... Show More
57m 9s
Yesterday
How agentic artificial intelligence could shake up the legal industry
For lawyers, artificial intelligence agents could completely change the way that they do their jobs, handling things such as legal research, document creation and managing workflows with little human supervision. But if we’ve learned anything since the dawn of the generative AI r ... Show More
38m 32s
Oct 2023
Episode 184: Law Unlimited: Welcome to the re-envisioned legal profession
Will Generative AI destroy law firms? Only if lawyers are too fixed in their ways to see the possibilities that lie beyond who we've always been and what we've always done. In this podcast, globally renowned legal commentator Jordan Furlong, Principal at Law21, unpacked the chall ... Show More
1h 1m
Dec 2024
481: Quick Tips -- Speed Dating with Legal Careers
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, as part of our "Quick Tips" series, we're speed dating with legal careers, discussing seven practice areas in seven minutes. In this episode we discuss: The roles and responsibilities of legal professionals in the following p ... Show More
8 m
Oct 2024
October 10th, 2024: Vindicated! Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop Wins Again in Court.
Josh Hammer explains the importance of the latest legal victory for the besieged Jack Phillips, owner of Lakewood, Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop. When will SCOTUS finally put an end once and for all to these evil "bake the damn cake, bigot!"-style lawsuits? Today's "closing ... Show More
27m 43s
Jul 2023
Jacqueline Kinghan, "Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for social justice lawyering in the UK.Underpinned by theories of cause lawyering and legal ... Show More
1h 5m