Anna Stolley Persky

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Home Web First BigLaw firms slow down recruiting and hiring… Law Firms BigLaw firms slow down recruiting and hiring amid changing political landscape After a chaotic presidential transition and with a potential recession looming, BigLaw firms are rolling back their hiring and recruiting efforts, observers say, as the economic impacts of skirmishes with the new administration remain unclear. Law firms, and particularly those in BigLaw, are reexamining their business models to determine which...

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Home Web First Revoking security clearances includes due… Tort Law Revoking security clearances includes due process, which is not being followed, says whistleblower lawyer In February, President Donald Trump said he was revoking the security clearance of Washington, D.C.-based lawyer Mark Zaid, who in 2019 represented a whistleblower who led to Trump’s first impeachment over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. By early March, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national...

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Home Magazine 'Our Finest Hour': ABA 'will not shrink from… ABA Leadership 'Our Finest Hour': ABA 'will not shrink from the things we believe in,' President Bill Bay says While 2025 will bring changes to the organization and challenges to the rule of law, the American Bar Association will continue to do its work “safeguarding the fundamental American values of due process and access to justice,” ABA President Bill Bay said in February in a speech to the ABA House of Delegates at the midyear...

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Home Magazine Helping people feel safe is a primary goal… My Path to Law Helping people feel safe is a primary goal of lawyer Chase Strangio Chase Strangio, co-director of the LGBTQ & HIV Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, stresses the importance of remaining hopeful, even if the legal landscape for transgender rights seems bleaker right now than it has in years past. “I’m very committed to moving us out of a space of chaos, catastrophe and fear, and moving us to a place of...

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Home Magazine Calming down situations in a respectful way… Inter Alia Calming down situations in a respectful way is a useful skill for lawyers, former DOJ counsel says While working at the U.S. Justice Department, lawyer Katharine Manning helped victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida and the investment fraud case involving Bernie Madoff, who pleaded guilty to money laundering in 2009. Now a consultant, she advises organizations, corporations...