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Most everyone at BoyarMiller, a 32-lawyer firm in Houston, has been working in the office since last May under strict health protocols, and now clients are coming back, too.

The Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation "Courageous Conversations #StopAsianHate" webinar shined a light on some of the different stereotypes that Asian American legal professionals encounter in the workplace.

"I see no problem with an attorney using information from a firm's database to make contact with clients he regularly works with," said one employment lawyer. "There are people out there who disagree with that violently."

In the past few decades, law firms have made great strides in catching up with the rest of the corporate world and are reaping the benefits of all kinds of marketing. This acceptance by firm management is in great part due to an increased appreciation of analytics, made possible by digital marketing and social media.

Lawyers say more women are coming forward as they grow more confident that their complaints will be heard.

"When you're in his courtroom, you know that he's in charge," said Cahill's former law partner Michael Colich, of Colich & Associates in Minneapolis.

Four of the 11 judicial nominees the White House unveiled Tuesday graduated from non-elite law schools. Scholars have long noted the dominance of top law schools such as Harvard and Yale on the federal bench.

The justices may be aiming to provide clarity and guidance to lower courts on its prior rulings

ROSS Intelligence faces a setback in the Thomson Reuters litigation but will still have a chance to make its case that Westlaw content cannot be copyrighted.

"I spend (or used to spend) a lot of time in my office, so I want to be comfortable there," one law firm partner wrote.

What's being lost from the in-person hiring and onboarding process, and what can firms do to address it?

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Staff roles, and perhaps some underproductive partners, will be scrutinized as firms consider their new normal.

"I remind myself that I always feel much better after I work out. Putting on a good song that makes me want to move always gets me going!"

Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends.

A consumer alert posted Tuesday on Tom Girardi's bar license page warns he is accused of "a major misappropriation of client funds."

"This list powerfully affirms that nominees who are racially diverse and whose professional background reflects a broad range of practice are available to serve on the federal bench," said Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP LDF.

Firms' plans in California hint that the idea of scaling up new offices may be increasingly less important in a new remote world.

As attorneys get more comfortable with administrative tasks—a process accelerated by remote work—law firms are reassessing the role of legal assistants. And the changes might be drastic.