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Solo practitioners saw steeper revenue declines amid COVID-19, new report finds   Image from Shutterstock.com. Solo practitioners had a harder time weathering the initial economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic than others in the legal industry, according to a new report that cloud-based company Clio released on Tuesday. From April through June 2020, solos saw their revenue drop between 5% and 7% more than firms with more lawyers, according to Clio’s Legal Trends for Solo Law Firms. In May alone, solo practitioners’ revenue declined by 19% compared to the previous year. The steeper re...

Sometimes you just have to tear something down and start over again—like when you were a child and built a house of blocks or constructed a bridge with your Erector set, and it came tumbling down. You discovered too late that the foundation was not strong. It needed a redo.

ABA’s Practice Forward group puts focus on members' needs, well-being   Image from Shutterstock.com. The challenges confronting the legal profession as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a prime focus of the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting. In the first CLE program Wednesday, the ABA Coordinating Group on Practice Forward provided a sneak peek at results of a new ABA survey seeking to better understand issues that have impacted lawyers at work and at home. In September and October, 4,400 people nationwide answered questions about how legal employers revised policies and procedures and wh...

Tampons and pads shouldn’t be prohibited at bar exam, ABA House says   Image from Shutterstock.com. The right of bar examinees to bring tampons and pads with them was addressed in a measure overwhelmingly approved by the House of Delegates at the ABA Midyear Meeting on Monday. Resolution 105 calls on the bar admission authority in each jurisdiction to permit test-takers to take menstrual products into the bar exam in opaque bags and access them without being supervised by exam proctors. The resolution, which was primarily sponsored by the Law Student Division, also asks that authorities in...

ABA is on a ‘promising path forward,’ President Patricia Lee Refo says     ABA President Patricia Lee Refo addressed the House of Delegates remotely during their session at the midyear meeting. Since taking office, ABA President Patricia Lee Refo has maintained a schedule of events that would've once been unimaginable. She told the House of Delegates at the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting on Monday that in 2½ consecutive days last fall, she spoke at virtual events hosted by the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Union Internationale des Avocats in Paris. She also, from h...