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Lecker & Associates, an Ontario-based employment and disability law firm, publishes the Employee Rights blog. Since 2016, the firm’s lawyers have consistently reported on major employment lawsuits and shared educational pieces for readers to better understand their rights as workers. Principal of the firm, Bram Lecker, also runs a podcast in which he discusses important topics such as employee mental health.
Since 2010, the UK Human Rights blog has published insights and news on a wide range of legal issues, including human rights, medical, and environmental law. The blog is authored by the members of 1 Crown Office Row–one of England’s largest barristers chambers with roots tracing back to 1930–though they invite contributions from legal academics and practicing lawyers. Recent law graduates also deliver their Rights Round-up published weekly. The bloggers demonstrate their commitment to advocacy through providing resources on human rights and daily reporting.
Louis Lehot is a corporate, securities and M&A lawyer based in San Francisco who founded L2 Counsel, P.C. to help entrepreneurs, companies, and investors form, fund, buy, and sell businesses. His blog, which began in February of this year, gives a glimpse into the expertise he provides his clients. He has written informative pieces about how to pick the right lawyer for your business, build the perfect pitch desk, and run an effective board of directors.
Aileen Leventon aims to align “lawyers and their clients around value.” She has over 20 years of experience in practicing law and currently serves as Senior Advisor & Consultant at legal management company, LegalShift. Since 2016, she has shared insights on law firm management, process improvements, data analytics, and more via her blog.
Validity Finance offers client-focused financial services and strategic advice in the hopes of creating a “more just legal system,” according to the Founder and CEO, Ralph Sutton. By enhancing access to capital, the company believes they can help make the entire legal system fairer. Their Litigation Finance Insights blog delivers on that mission by writing passionately about the benefits of, the ethics of, and how to communicate about litigation finance.
Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC, an Arizona-based special education law firm, joins LexBlog with their KGK Special Ed Law blog. Their blog is the second blog in our network to address special education exclusively. The founding members of the firm, Lori Kirsch-Goodwin and Hope Kirsch have over 40 years of combined legal experience. Their blog guides parents on how to advocate for their child and their rights.
Zero is a technology company that provides AI-powered email solutions to law firms. Their products automate time-consuming administrative tasks to increase lawyer productivity and profitability. Demonstrating their value of helping legal professionals spend more time on meaningful work, Zero’s New & Insights helps readers lead more fulfilling personal and professional lives. They have recently blogged on how lawyers can practice mindfulness, how to identify and prevent burnout, and how lawyers can untie their self-worth from the billable hour.
Jaspan Schlesinger LLP recently launched their first blog with LexBlog, which we reported on here. They are contributing even more perspectives to the network with their second blog, the New York Labor & Employment Law Blog**. This blog provides updates and perspectives on litigation and employment law. The bloggers have recently reported on new laws and requirements for businesses to help employers prepare for and avoid potential lawsuits.
Perkins Coie’s partner Marc Elias publishes the Democracy Docket blog**–what he calls a tool in the fight against Republican voter suppression. The blog focuses on highlighting and combating suppressive voting laws that have the greatest impact on the outcome of the 2020 presidential elections. “We need to challenge these laws that suppress the vote,” he wrote passionately in his most recent post.
David Coddon is Of Counsel with BridgehouseLaw LLP and has launched his first blog with LexBlog, Adventures in Corporate Compliance**. The blog discusses the “seemingly mundane, yet endlessly fascinating and challenging, world of corporate compliance,” focusing mostly on US law, but also touching on the EU and East Asia. He aims to find “the person in the machine,” by providing perspectives on how to run compliance programs that leverage the power of people and addressing practical challenges faced by people working in compliance.
Joe Darr, a Board Certified construction attorney at Kirwin Norris, is the sole author of the Government Construction Law Update**. Darr has a wide range of experience in representing many of the largest sureties in construction and commercial disputes. His blog offers perspectives and reporting on recent news in government construction law-related issues across the nation, such as bid protests, construction disputes, construction claims and alternative dispute resolution
Matthew Denn brings another DLA Piper blog to the LexBlog network with the State Attorney General Watch blog**. Recognizing that State AGs across all 50 states have become increasingly active in data privacy, the use of new technology, and science and medicine, Denn brings his expertise from serving as the former Attorney General of Delaware to highlight recent developments in these areas. He has so far reported on food labeling, children’s privacy on the internet, and internet service fees.
Farella Braun + Martel LLP brings their third blog to the LexBlog network with the Privacy blog**. Led by the firm’s online privacy team, the blog focuses on practical issues arising from privacy and data security legislation to answer questions for anyone affected by the changing privacy landscape. The team said they cannot promise to remain neutral, and hope to sometimes “evoke the need to comment and engage with the content.”
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