Legal Research

Internal Mentoring Programs: The Wrong Approach
This post is for professional service firms who are thinking of starting a mentoring program or who have one and are wondering why it's not a brilliant success. Assigning mentors doesn't work...

Mentoring Programs: Why They Don't Work
This post is for professional service firms who are thinking of starting a mentoring program or who have one and are wondering why it's not a brilliant success. Assigning mentors doesn't work...

Golden on Mentoring.
Mentoring can be ugly or rewarding--and even euphoric. It depends on whether you plan it and tweak it right. See Michelle Golden's "Internal Mentoring Programs: The Wrong Approach" at her Golden Practices.

January Is National Mentoring Month
... And, Harvard School of Public Health Center for Health Communication (what a mouth full) runs The Harvard Mentoring Project (much easier to say). National Mentoring Month is a collaborative, public-private initiative sponsored by nonprofit organizations, media companies, and government agencies...

A website where mentors and mentees meet
iMantri is a new social networking site for people who offer and seek mentoring:"Whether you want to be a mentor or a mentee, iMantri allows you evaluate your competencies, help find a suitable mentoring match, provides a framework and facilitates mentoring interactions...

Ohio Needs Mentors
Yes there is a Mentor, Ohio, but volunteers for Ohio's Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program can be from anywhere in the state. The program is described as "a voluntary program for new lawyers designed to help ease the transition from law school to law practice through an ongoing relationship with an experienced attorney...

Wrong Bus
Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot.

Wrong Medication
Walgreens agrees to confidential settlement after woman suffers miscarriage.

Unlicensed Software
NovaStar Mortgage Inc. pays Business Software Alliance $112,000 settlement for using unlicensed copies of computer programs.