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Highlights from Bloomberg Law’s Black GC Project
February 8, 2021
2021's first don't-miss legal media series is Bloomberg Law's
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“The Value of Everything: Making & Taking in the Global Economy”
February 1, 2021
By Mariana Mazzucato In taking a deeper look at law firm compensation models this month, we have been thinking about how firms define “value,” and how that definition drives their business strategy. Economist Mariana Mazzucato explores who really creates wealth in our world, and how we define value — yes, there is more than one way — in her book, “The Value of Everything: Making & Taking in the Global Economy.” Mazzucato claims that in our current stage of...
Eunice Carter: The Pioneering Black Prosecutor Who Brought Down Gangster “Lucky” Luciano
February 1, 2021
When social worker-turned-prosecutor Eunice Carter was handling prostitution cases in Harlem’s Women’s Court in 1935, she noticed something familiar about the accused women’s representation. They were the same lawyers and bail bondsmen whose names came up time and again in Mob cases. What’s more, the women all seemed to have been coached to offer the same explanations and defenses for their cases. Carter alerted crusading special prosecutor (and future governor...
How Directories Drive — or Doom — Diversity
January 25, 2021
Preparing and Pitching Expert Sources on the Vaccine
January 19, 2021
As the mass COVID-19 vaccination effort continues to roll out across the country, reporters in legal and mainstream media are looking for expert sources who can shed light on the many legal issues raised by this unprecedented initiative. This creates a great opportunity for attorneys to provide analysis and be featured in the news coverage. But in order to make the best use of these placements, law firm marketers will need to do some legwork to prepare and pitch their attorneys’...