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Amos Jones Shows How to Make a Broader Impact as a Solo Attorney
If you ask Amos Jones, founding principal of Amos Jones Law Firm, how he ended up specializing in constitutional law, he will tell you it was not by design. “I didn't choose constitutional law; constitutional law chose me,” he says.
Law Firm Survey Shows Revenue Growth, Workplace & Technology Shifts in 2021
Despite pandemic disruptions, the legal sector had its “best year ever” in 2021, according to Sherry Cushman of the global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, which recently released its ninth annual Bright Insight: 2022 National Legal Sector Benchmark Survey results.
Housing Right to Counsel Project
Housing Right to Counsel Project
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From Starting a Hive to Going Into Dark Social, Practice 360° Looks at Ways to Build Community
On September 14 the D.C. Bar Practice Management Advisory Service held its annual Practice 360°, a daylong program addressing a wide array of issues that impact solo and small firm practitioners.
https://www.dcbar.org/news-events/news/from-starting-a-hive-to-going-into-dark-social,-pr
Magistrate Judge Tyrona De Witt Stays Grounded Despite Weight of Judicial Responsibility
Appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by former chief judge Robert Morin in 2016, Magistrate Judge Tyrona De Witt has served as the presiding judge over the Family Treatment Court and the Juvenile Behavioral Diversion Program.
Michelle Bradford Extends Her Prosecutorial Expertise to White Collar Defense
While attending Georgetown University Law Center, Bronx, New York, native Michelle Bradford enjoyed the feel of a somewhat smaller city. After earning her JD in 2000 and practicing at a large firm in New York for two years, she returned to Washington, D.C., for a federal clerkship and has lived here ever since. Bradford served as assistant U.S. attorney (AUSA) in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia from 2006 to 2018 before returning to private practice. In 2020 she joined
D.C. Bar Panel Discusses Impact of Sweeping Overhaul of District’s Criminal Code
It’s been more than 121 years since Washington, D.C., had a criminal code imposed on it by Congress. The city and the nation have evolved a lot since then, but the District’s criminal code has not. That is about to change.
https://www.dcbar.org/news-events/news/d-c-bar-panel-discusses-impact-of-sweeping-overhau
Supreme Court Review Takes Deep Dive Into Top Employment Cases of the Past Term
With a 6–3 conservative majority, the U.S. Supreme Court issued several landmark rulings during its 2021–22 term, including on hot-button issues relating to guns, abortion, and religion. On December 13, employment law expert Robert B. Fitzpatrick led a D.C. Bar virtual program summarizing some of the Court’s key holdings in cases dealing with employment law and arbitration.
https://www.dcbar.org/news-events/news/supreme-court-review-takes-deep-dive-into-top-empl
BNH.AI Experts Seek to Demystify AI Vulnerabilities & Risks in Upcoming CLE
Brenda Leong, a partner at BNH.AI, works at the only law firm in the world that’s founded by a partnership between lawyers and data scientists. “The District of Columbia is the only [U.S.] jurisdiction that allows co-equal ownership of law firm by a nonlawyers,” Leong says. “The firm’s co-founders took advantage of that opportunity to address what we felt was a real gap in the market.”
The Potential Pitfalls of Puffery
When does an attorney’s or law firm’s bold marketing scheme cross the line and become a potential ethics violation? The D.C. Bar webinar “I’m the Best Lawyer in Town and Other Things You Can’t Say (Ethically),” held December 14, sought to answer this question, examining some common pitfalls and overlooked opportunities.
https://www.dcbar.org/news-events/publications/d-c-bar-blog/the-potential-pitfalls-of-puffery
Considerations for Converting Office Space to Housing in the District
Approximately 20 million square feet of the District of Columbia’s more than 75 million square feet of office space downtown is vacant, the city’s highest vacancy rate in the last 30 years.
D.C. Legal Community Comes Out in Force to Support Access to Justice Initiative
Legal services providers, advocates, and other community members rallied in support of Washington D.C.’s Access to Justice Initiative at a D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hearing April 13, urging the District’s legislative body to preserve funding at fiscal year 2023 levels.
https://www.dcbar.org/news-events/news/d-c-legal-community-comes-out-in-force-to-support-
