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Afternoon Briefs: Dentons merges with another firm; dad can’t be banned from procreating, court rules   Dentons will combine with Alabama law firm Dentons has announced that it will combine with Sirote & Permutt, an Alabama law firm with 86 lawyers and offices in five locations. The merger will be Dentons’ fifth combination through Project Golden Spike, a U.S. expansion effort that uses a dual-partnership model. The Alabama firm will be known as Dentons Sirote. Dentons expects to announce additional combinations in the coming months. (Thomson Reuters Legal, Law.com, Dentons press release...

Former Skadden associate is among 20 people granted clemency by Trump   Image from Shutterstock.com. Among those pardoned by President Donald Trump on Tuesday is a former associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who pleaded guilty in the special counsel probe of Russian election influence in 2016. The associate, Alexander van der Zwaan, was sentenced to 30 days in prison in April 2018 for lying to investigators. Trump pardoned 15 people in all and granted commutations to five others, report Law.com, the Washington Post, Politico and the New York Times. A White House press release i...

At the ABA Journal, part of our mission is to provide useful, relevant advice for members of the legal profession. The past year presented challenges that left all of us scrambling for guidance, and we did our best to serve readers' interests in five major areas: their practice, their well-being, their skill sets, their ethical duties and their career transitions.

Lawyer and author shares her holiday wishes for women lawyers   Susan Smith Blakely. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are more than 400,000 women lawyers in America today, and women comprise more than 36% of practicing lawyers. Women are working at all levels of practice and in every specialty area. They are smart, competent, thorough, dedicated and much more. But that does not mean it is easy for any of them. What have already been challenges for women lawyers for decades often became overwhelming obstacles in 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, women lawyers’ responsibilities e...

Relax with our favorite long reads of 2020 Year in Review   Image from Shutterstock.com. Throughout the year, the ABA Journal publishes in-depth features on the business of the legal profession, developments in the law, lives that have been impacted by the justice system and the ways society influences—and is influenced by—the law. What follows are some of our favorite features from 2020. Business of Law While there was no single point of failure, undisciplined acquisitions, ad hoc and expensive compensation schemes, and financial mismanagement coalesced to bring about LeClairRyan’s ru...