Today’s legal news includes intelligence for our CodeX crowd re: Big Law lawyers’ departures; more depressing surveys about women lawyers; and U.K. police re: phone and web spying rights, all from this morning’s Bloomberg Big Law Business feed.

• “At K&L Gates, Partners Exit & ‘the King’ is Silent,” by Casey Sullivan, who reports on several recent departures that may be more than routine. Why is this important to the CodeX crowd? Because we need to understand the difference between “normal” departures and exits that may help us diagnose broader shifts in the Big Law ecosystem.

• “Florida Bar Raises Awareness on Discrimination Against Women,” by Lenore Adkins. About 400 women lawyers in The Florida Bar’s Young Lawyer Division   responded to a recent survey. Among the depressing results:
> 43% said they had experienced gender discrimination.
> 27% said they resigned over a lack of advancement opportunities, a lack of work-life balance and/or employer/supervisor insensitivity.
> 21% said there was no parity in compensation with similarly-qualified male counterparts.

Among the women’s quotes:
> “It has often been assumed that I am a court reporter, and not an attorney, by opposing counsel.”
> “I’ve also been referred to by a judge in trial as my boss’s ‘assistant,’ when I was sitting with my client and my boss at counsel’s table.”
> One lawyer reported being “‘drunk-dialed’ by a senior partner during normal business hours.”

• “U.K. Police Given Phone, Web Spying Right Under Revised Bill.” We’re all watching the Apple/Government dance, need I say more?

Monica Bay is a CodeX Fellow and a member of the California Bar. She is a freelance journalist for Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business, a columnist at Above The Law and co-hosts, with Robert Ambrogi, Law Technology Now. Have a tip for the CodeX blog? Ping me: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.