Thirty candidates have applied to be a federal magistrate judge hearing mostly misdemeanor cases while serving in a small courthouse that is nothing more than a gray clapboard structure.
Some employers laying off workers take what Kate Wendleton terms the surgical method–ax the employee in 15 seconds or so and then escort him or her to the door.
Used by some Republican senators as a rallying cry against the confirmation of new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, her controversial “wise Latina” comment is now being proclaimed by…
Jessica Sparacino was still a law student when she landed a job as a paralegal at the Jackson Lewis office in Melville, N.Y. She worked there for a year after…
Updated: Starting next year, Day Pitney will roll out a new “summer apprenticeship” program at its two largest offices that will emphasize on-the-job training.
In a firmwide voice mail today that provided what amounts to good news in the current economy, the managing partner of Perkins Coie announced that there will be an average…
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