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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

LawTechnologyToday

Law schools also have an ethical obligation to train technology competency skills and offer basic technology training in required first-year legal practice courses and upper-level legal technology courses. He agrees that attorneys should dedicate time to getting technology training.

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The 2019 Florida Bar Annual Convention

LegalTalkNetwork

It was a special treat to see our good friend John Stewart ascend to the presidency of the Florida Bar as another good friend Michelle Suskauer passed the gavel to him. Stay tuned to hear what’s next for her as she passes the gavel. . Florida Bar Annual Convention 2019: Bar President John Stewart.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

SCOTUSBlog

More broadly, life on the ranch prepared her for other experiences in later years, as she noted that until she began to ride with the cattle drives, “it had been an all-male domain. Also like Ginsburg, O’Connor was unable to find work at a law firm even though she was at the top of her class and an editor of the law review.

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