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The American Bar Association has made its last call for entries into its video/essay competition on gender diversity.
The deadline for submissions to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession 20th anniversary video/essay contest is Dec. 31, noon, Central Standard Time.  Entries must be based on the theme “Gender Diversity:  Have We Solved the Problem?  [...]

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This week intrepid Minnesota Lawyer associate editor Barbara Jones is accompanying a delegation from the Minnesota State Bar Association to Washington, D.C. The MSBA group plans to meet with members of Congress from Minnesota to discuss issues of interest to the bar as part of American Bar Association Day. Barbara has promised to transmit back [...]

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A couple of news stories lately have raised some questions about what the profession can expect from its new lawyers, and what new lawyers will be available.
Corporate Counsel reported last week that larger law firms are losing 30 to 50 percent of associates after three to four years — with half to two-thirds of the [...]

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I recently had an interesting experience that has left me scratching my head, and, to be honest, a little annoyed.
I received in the mail a copy of Terence MacCarthy’s book — MacCarthy on Cross-Examination — published by the American Bar Association. I was familiar with MacCarthy, having seen him make a presentation at Minnesota CLE’s [...]

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Intrepid Minnesota Lawyer Associate Editor Barbara Jones is currently in Washington, D.C., with a number of bigwigs from the Minnesota State Bar Association to attend an American Bar Association’s annual legislative lobbying event — ABA day. Oddly enough, the event takes two days — or at least that was what Barb told us when we [...]

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