This Month's Issue
Features
Minority-Owned Firms: Meeting the Diversity Challenges
Lawyers who lead minority-owned firms describe how diversity has changed in law firms, and what must happen next.
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Blurring the Lines that Divide Lawyers
Six diverse lawyers describe what led them to the practice of law and what they believe needs to happened for large law firms to truly be diverse.
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Columns
Opening Statement: Stoppard’s Czech rock
By Julian J. Frazin
Julian reviews Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll at the Goodman Theatre in what starts as politics and turns about to be a love story
Info Tech: Copyright: What’s the big idea?
By Alan S. Wernick
A discussion of the “original expression of ideas” and its protection under copyright.
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Special Sections
Legal Technology Update 2009
This year’s Legal Technology Update 2009, a special supplement to the Chicago Lawyer and Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, focuses on responses to the 2nd annual eDiscovery survey of Illinois attorneys. Several articles cover new eDiscovery methods and practical ways to cut costs.
Midwest Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Guidebook - Spring 2009
The Midwest Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Guidebook, Spring 2009 is the only resource of its kind in the Midwest. It lists hundreds of CLE courses by date, subject and provider.
Langdon Neal’s grandfather, Earl, aspired to be an attorney despite the fact that there were very few black lawyers in the 1930s. “He went to law school at night and during the day he worked as a redcap in the train station in downtown Chicago,” Neal said.
Sailesh Patel said he estimates that when he started practicing in 1999, only about 30 Indian-American lawyers practiced in the entire Chicago area. Today, he believes there are at least several hundred local Indian-American lawyers.
In Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ’n’ Roll,” at the Goodman Theatre, Stoppard takes us back to his native Czechoslovakia during the occupation and overthrow of the Soviets, in which his favorite music of the ’60s and ’70s plays a huge role.
Copyright law does not protect ideas. Furthermore, it does not protect any procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery (e.g., facts). There are other legal paradigms (e.g., trade secrets law, patent law) that protect ideas, but not in the copyright realm.
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Six of the next generation lawyers discussed in the “Up-and-coming leaders look to the future” article in the June 2009 Chicago Lawyer magazine are profiled here.