The American Bar Association is hosting its second-annual Startup Alley program, offering startups a shot at being one of 15 companies to face off in a pitch competition at the ABA TECHSHOW conference, and TBA lawyer Sean Martin’s app is the running as a top 25 semifinalist. Martin’s app, Time Miner, is designed to capture and recover billable time on an attorney’s phone. To read more about Time Miner, see the full list of semifinalists (and to cast a vote), visit Above the Law.

If you or your firm hasn't yet renewed your TBA membership, do it now to ensure you keep receiving TBA Today and all the other great TBA services you rely on. The TBA membership year ended June 30, and now the grace period is also coming to an end. Along with your subscription to TBA Today and the Tennessee Bar Journal, your access to Fastcase, discounts for CLE programming and other services will go away on Aug. 1. Contact TBA Membership Director Kathy Prescott if you have any questions.

A recent survey of nearly 400 managing partners and chairs nationwide suggests that changes in the legal market are continuing to affect performance, Bloomberg Law reports. In response to survey questions posed by legal management consulting firm Altman Weil, 88 percent of respondents said they have chronically underperforming lawyers, 61 percent said overcapacity is diluting their profitability, and 65 percent said their partners resist most efforts to change how to they do business. This comes at a time when most (72 percent) law firm leaders said the pace of change in the legal industry will only continue to increase in the coming years. Join the TBA's Evolving Legal Market Discussion Forum to weigh in on this.

Your résumé does not have to include every detail of your experience, according to the American Bar Association. “The Myths and Musts for the Perfect Legal Résumé” shares pointers for crafting a résumé that resonates with employers.

Cincinnati-based law firm Frost Brown Todd and San Francisco-based law firm Littler Mendelson – both with offices in Nashville – received a 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 14th Annual Scorecard on Workplace Equality. The firms join Baker Donelson and Nissan North America Inc. as legal workplaces in Tennessee to earn the distinction. The 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) is a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality.

University of Tennessee College of Law Professor Benjamin Barton argues that the struggles today’s legal professional faces may transform the practice of law and benefit American consumers. In a new book, “Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession,” published this month by Oxford University Press, Barton explains his prediction: “It is true that the legal profession and law schools are in for tough sledding for the next few years, but there is a significant upside to these changes,” Barton said. For example, he argues that soon lawyers may earn lower incomes but devote their time to more fulfilling work and become more efficient in how they use their time.

The ABA is now giving free memberships to law students at ABA-approved schools. Students who join will have access to a number of ABA services and also receive copies of Student Lawyer magazine and a digital subscription to the monthly ABA Journal.

Be careful what you click, attorney David Peel warns in an opinion piece in the Millington Star. Peel recounts stories of lawyers across the country who have been duped by internet scam artists. One attorney in San Diego had almost $300,000 taken out of his bank account after opening an attachment from an email appearing to be from usps.gov. The IRS also issued a list of scams people should watch out for.

Medical and technical jobs topped the list, but a  website where users can post reviews on companies and salary information, puts lawyer in their top 10 high paying jobs with high demand. Glassdoor says lawyers have an average base salary of $120,424, and there are an estimated 5,520 openings. The Nashville Business Journal has more.

When Ryan Park ended his clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this past summer, he took on another challenging role as a stay-at-home dad. In an article for The Atlantic, Park describes how he benefited from Bader’s advice on juggling career and child care. “My deepest fear is that, decades from now, I will look back at the heart of my life and realize I made the wrong choices in favor of work,” Park writes.