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Layoffs

Cooley Godward Lays Off 58 Staffers

Law Practice Management

Never Mind About 2010, Katten Tells 6 Deferred Law Grads, Can You Start Now?

Criminal Justice

County Officials Could Be Jailed If Convicted of Sunshine Law Violation

Law Practice Management

Wildman Rescinds Offers to 10 of 14 Incoming Associates

Verdicts & Settlements

Teen Wins $150K Over Amazon’s Kindle Clawback of Orwell E-Book

Real Estate & Property Law

Tempted By Foreclosure Crisis, Some Lawyers Overcharge & Underwork

Legal Ethics

Civil Rights Lawyer is Disbarred, Plans US Supreme Court Appeal

Corporate Law

Office Life in the Fast Lane Leads to Litigation, Company Bans

Law Practice Management

Firm Calls Meeting to Remove Partner, But Doesn’t Get Enough Votes

24 Hours

Phone It In: Tell Us What’s Broken About the Practice of Law

Legal Ethics

Would-Be Lawyer with Pattern of ‘Offensive Behavior’ Denied License

Law Firms

McKool Smith Raids Andrews Kurth to Open New Office, Add Bankruptcy Practice

Law Firms

Law Firms Mostly Shun Big Mergers in Third Quarter

Careers

How Selling Mary Kay Cosmetics Helped ‘My Pink Lawyer’ in Practice

Celebrities

Alec Baldwin Offers Divorce Advice in Paperback Book

Legal Ethics

Judge Axes Attorney from Criminal Case, Says He ‘Played a Major Role’

Legal Ethics

Proposed Standard for Lawyer Advice: What Would Judge Rakoff Think

Women in the Law

These Lawyer Families Are New Twist on Opt-Out Professionals

U.S. Supreme Court

Court to Decide Extent of Liability for Immigrant’s Delayed Cancer Treatment

U.S. Supreme Court

High Court to Decide if Suspect Invoked Miranda by ‘Persistent Silence’

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