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Spirit of Excellence honorees strive for diversity and inclusion     Pamela Enslen, the chair of the Spirit of Excellence Awards Committee (top left), congratulates this year’s honorees during the ABA Virtual Midyear Meeting. Clockwise from top center, they are Lori Lightfoot, Barbara Creel, Román Hernández, John Yang and Sherrilyn Ifill. Barbara Creel. Román Hernández. Sherrilyn Ifill. Lori Lightfoot. John Yang. “These outstanding lawyers are the embodiment of excellence in our profession,” ABA President Patricia Lee Refo said after reading the names of the recipients of this yea...

Legal recruiter's article about lawyers shunned in BigLaw raises eyebrows   Image from Shutterstock.com. Prestigious law firms avoid hiring 23 types of lawyers, according to Harrison Barnes, the managing director and founder of BCG Attorney Search, a legal recruiting firm. The shunned job candidates include government lawyers, lawyers who went to third- and fourth-tier law schools, and lawyers who don’t connect well with interviewers, according to Barnes’ online article, which is making the rounds on social media. The article—written four years ago—sparked outrage among observers who...

A hacking group has posted files that it claims to be from Jones Day after the law firm was hit by a data breach at one of its vendors.

Ethics Pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood posts addresses of ethics board members after he learns of bar probe     L. Lin Wood Jr. in March 2020. Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian via Wikimedia Commons. A lawyer who advanced stolen election claims on behalf of former President Donald Trump is asking an “Army of Patriots” to investigate the State Bar of Georgia’s disciplinary board. In a Telegram post, lawyer L. Lin Wood Jr. said the bar has begun a disciplinary inquiry, and he wants his supporters to investigate his accusers, report the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Law360. Wood posted the nam...

More minorities are getting hired as associates, but law firm leadership is mostly white and male because of a diversity “bottleneck” and higher rates of minority attrition, according to an ABA survey report released Tuesday.