by HolAdmin | Aug 19, 2025 | American Legal News
Associates at King & Spalding recently received an update to firm policy that is worrying folks. The firm told associates they are responsible for 2,400 “productive” hours (broader than “billable” hours, but narrower than all working hours) in order to be in good...
by HolAdmin | Aug 19, 2025 | American Legal News
“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” the president ranted last week. It has not. Violent crime in DC is down sharply from last year, and is, in fact, at a...
by HolAdmin | Aug 19, 2025 | American Legal News
While we all know the expression “monkey see, monkey do,” it doesn’t quite hit the mark for me as I sit down to write this. The word I’m really searching for is “emulate.” The definition? To match or surpass someone or something, typically by imitation. There, that’s...
by HolAdmin | Aug 19, 2025 | American Legal News
Some strong “will they, won’t they” tension may make for great rom-com foundation, but the dynamic is far from what you’d expect of a licensing organization. After a disastrous experimental February rollout led the California Bar back to an orthodox NBCE test...
by HolAdmin | Aug 19, 2025 | American Legal News
While Biglaw firms continue to usher attorneys back to the office in the wake of the pandemic, hybrid work policies still remain in effect in some way, shape, or form, with fully remote policies having “nearly disappeared.” But what do those hybrid policies look like?...
by HolAdmin | Aug 18, 2025 | American Legal News
One If By Land, Two If By Subway: DOJ fires lawyer who tossed sandwich at federal officer and this administration WILL NOT STAND for sandwiches thrown at law enforcmenet. Trying to kill them with fire extinguishers and flagpoles, though… much different story. The...
