From My LinkedIn Group: Statistical Analysis as Evidence in Employment Discrimination…
A few days ago, on my LinkedIn Group, Charles Krugel’s Labor & Employment Law & Human Resources Practices Group, member Stephanie R Thomas, Ph.D., the owner of Thomas Econometrics in the Philadelphia, PA, area, posted an excellent examination of the use and importance of statistical analysis in disparate impact and disparate treatment discrimination cases. I [...]
Seminar From A Friend of Mine-Inside the Law Firm of the Future
Michael Zolno, a Chicago-based law practice marketing consultant, is a co-organizer and presenter at the following seminar (press release is below) taking place in San Diego, CA, on October 23 and 24 of this year. If you’d like more information, you may contact Michael at MZolno@aol.com. Industry Experts to Offer Strategies for Law Firm Success [...]
Guest Post from Attorney Keith Turner who co-wrote “Five Questions to Ask Your Litigation Counsel”
One of the amazing things about the Web is the ability to keep in touch with people even years after last seeing them. Recently, “an “old college buddy” contacted me after coming across this site while doing legal research. It turns out that he’s an attorney in Los Angeles. Keith Turner is a litigation attorney [...]
American Bar Association’s Recession Oriented Attorney Job Market Survey
I received the following from the American Bar Association (ABA) today. Being that I’m a labor and employment attorney, I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to help the ABA conduct this survey about my profession’s job market, especially in consideration of this extremely tight and disheartening job market and economy. The ABA Journal is surveying [...]
Addendum for Avvo’s Defective & Biased Lawyer Rating System
As an addendum to my last post about Avvo, check out the following: Besides taking an extraordinary amount of time to complete a profile, and besides not being able to cancel an account (i.e., “unclaim” a profile), I’ve discovered another issue with Avvo’s online lawyer rating system. When a lawyer is in the back-end of [...]
