The professional ethos of law firms discourages men from taking parental leave, a new Finnish-Canadian study shows. Carried out by the University of Eastern Finland and TÉLUQ University in Quebec, the study found that the professional culture in law firms rests on traditional masculine ideology, with men regarded as the providers for their families. This view does not encourage men to combine their professional career and childcare. The findings were reported in the International Journal of the Legal Profession.
While law firms fiercely compete to recruit and hire the industry's best and brightest, the strategy of accumulating stars without a strategic plan and simply hoping for the best tend to fail. Despite the staggering amount of money spent on talent (nearly 70 percent of a firm's total expenses), many lateral hires fail to meet firm expectations and are out the door within three to five years.
The U.S. Marshals Service is conducting a nationwide manhunt after an ex-lawyer, who was supposed to turn himself in for a 30-year sentence, allegedly killed his mother, cut off his ankle monitoring bracelet and fled.
