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The State of LGBTQ+ Representation in the Legal Profession: Stats, Trends & Challenges 2025

Martindale-Avvo

In many ways, the legal profession is still living in a world of firsts. Supreme Court, told Time magazine that no group of people should be having their first experience of anything. This can support LGBTQ+ students as they begin to explore the possibilities that await them with a legal education.

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Why Legal Bloggers are Ideal Speakers, Book Authors, and Journalists for Legal Stories

Kevin O'Keefe

Why are legal bloggers uniquely equipped to serve as speakers, book authors, and journalists for stories? If you’re a legal blogger, please share with me how blogging has opened doors to speaking, writing magazine articles or even writing a book. Legal bloggers often have niche expertise that other lawyers lack.

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LawNext: Reregulation of Legal Services – A Panel of Five Leading Experts Discuss

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Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services. . Joseph Gartner , director and counsel, ABA Center for Innovation.

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Women of Legal Tech:

Law Technology Today

Danielle regularly teaches continuing legal education on many topics including lawyer well-being, ethics, and law practice management and technology use in the law office. Please give us three points to summarize you and your work in legal technology. This includes providing education for both lawyers and paralegals.

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A Legal Tech Side-Story to 9/11

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The team that made it consisted of Monica Bay and David Horrigan — two names familiar to many in the legal tech world. Monica Bay was then editor-in-chief of Law Technology News , ALM’s legal technology magazine. Why, you wonder, was the editor of a legal tech publication assigned to cover Ground Zero?

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Ep 009: Bill Henderson on the Need to Change Non-Lawyer Ownership Rules

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Among his honors, he was named by the ABA Journal as a Legal Rebel, included on the National Law Journal’s list of The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America, and in both 2015 and 2016 named the Most Influential Person in Legal Education by The National Jurist magazine.

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Ep 136: Reregulation of Legal Services: A Panel of Five Leading Experts Discuss

LawNext podcast

Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services. Joseph Gartner , director and counsel, ABA Center for Innovation.