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Legal Market Insights

• "ABA Gets an Earful Over Proposed Diversity Training Mandate for Law Students," 07.01.21. 
  The American Lawyer reports that "a proposed new requirement that law schools train students in bias, racism and cross-cultural competency" has received an icy reception from the public.

• "Boom Times for Lawyers as Washington Pursues Big Tech," 06.29.21. 
  The New York Times reports that not since the government sued to break up Microsoft in the late 1990s has there been greater demand for people who know the ins and outs of corporate competition law: "The mounting legal and regulatory scrutiny facing Big Tech has led to a wave of lawsuits, investigations and proposed legislation aimed at ending the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Whether those efforts succeed may take years to sort out, but there is already one clear winner: the nation’s legal industry."

• "The future of legal sector reform is now," 06.29.21.
  Jordan Furlong, writing for his Law21 Blog, writes that "the process of reforming legal regulation and lawyer licensing has begun in earnest," and surveys some "extraordinary developments in lawyer licensing and legal regulation" happening in the UK, Canada, and the United States.

• "Virtual Judicial Clerk Interviews Seem Likely to Stick Around as Federal Judges’ Hiring Plan Gains Momentum," 06.22.21.
  Law.com reports that "some federal judges have said they prefer the convenience of interviewing clerkship candidates online and have indicated they will continue that practice after the pandemic subsides."

• “CFPB Report Highlights Supervisory Findings of Wide-Ranging Violations of Law in 2020,” 06.29.21 
  In a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), “Examiners found violations in areas including consumer reporting accuracy, redlining, foreclosure, and Public Service Loan Forgiveness,” noting that, “CFPB examiners found a number of ways that student loan servicers gave incorrect information to borrowers, resulting in missteps that could cost consumers thousands of dollars.”