Vanessa Blum

Your ALSP partner should communicate openly and frequently with you, pay you the lion’s share of the hourly fee charged to the employer and support your career advancement at every turn, even if you opt to leave contract lawyering for a permanent position.

While it is still unknown how the metaverse will take shape, lawyers advising brands should familiarize themselves with the opportunities it presents, the risks involved, and strategies to consider for enhancing and protecting a client’s brand.

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DLA Piper U.S. Chair-Elect Frank Ryan, who officially assumes the role of chair in January, discusses how the firm has managed through COVID-19 and its plans for the future.

Quinn Emanuel partner Maaren Shah says business development activities are changing in ways that could open doors for women lawyers.

Real-life lawyer Brenda Feigen, who's portrayed in the Hulu miniseries, shares her take on what the show gets right—and wrong—about the battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and her personal confrontations with ERA opponent Phyllis Schlafly.

The Above the Law founder-turned-legal recruiter talks about his brush with death and what he's learned from the ordeal.

Third-party funding is a recipe for Big Law attorneys to increase their book of business and make clients happy, says Legalist GC Curtis Smolar, a former Fox Rothschild partner.

Lisa Smith, who started her path to recovery 15 years ago, says there's a "myth" about the so-called high-functioning alcoholic.

Law.com Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro talks with Kannon Shanmugam about his lateral move to Paul Weiss, what it's like to argue before Justice Kavanaugh, and why it's been a 'meat and potatoes' term.

This week’s Legal Speak podcast is a revealing interview with U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who says he refuses to candy-coat the past when examining the evolution of his attitudes about race.

A recent court ruling raises the stakes for companies that collect facial scans, iris/retinal scans, fingerprints, voiceprints or any other identifier derived from biological characteristics. Avoiding liability means understanding a patchwork of state and federal laws, say Morrison & Foerster partner Julie O'Neill and associate Max Phillip Zidel.

Are rules that guard against forged or tampered evidence enough to prevent deepfake videos from making their way into court cases?

In this week's podcast, we hear from Law.com legal education editor Karen Sloan about some surprises—and some market stability—gleaned from this year's Go-To Law Schools report, including changes to traditional on-campus interviewing.

USC law professor Orin Kerr says the Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Carpenter v. U.S. raises more questions than it answers.

Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman discusses how emojis are complicating litigation.

We asked more than a dozen leaders in Big Law, small law, corporate legal departments and academia to tell us about the people who shaped their careers.

The Careerist's interview with Sharon Nelles and Robbie Kaplan is the first in an occasional series focused on the struggles and successes of women and minority lawyers.

This week's Legal Speak podcast with Law.com editors Vanessa Blum and Leigh Jones takes a close look at our ranking of the law schools that send the most graduates into first-year Big Law associate jobs.

With the trends showing a decline in retail jobs nationwide, and New York poised to promulgate additional regulations in this already-burdened area, it is unlikely that employers will be incentivized to reverse the tide. For the time being, we may need to get used to the concept that, for minimum wa…