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Plumbers get paid at a significantly higher rate for after-hours jobs. But law firm associates are often asked—no, expected—to accept last-minute after-hours work assignments, not only for no additional pay…
Mar 25, 2008 4:45 PM CDT
Law students can compete to win a $10,000 scholarship by making a video about their law school worries.
The One Less Worry contest, sponsored by the nonprofit student loan company…
Mar 25, 2008 10:48 AM CDT
How is it that a student can be bullied at school, for years, without officials taking effective action to end the situation? A lengthy article in today’s New York Times…
Mar 24, 2008 11:58 PM CDT
Updated: Despite all the hoopla over megafirms’ megaprofits in 2007, the three law firms that for the first time topped $2 billion in gross revenue weren’t where the real money…
Mar 24, 2008 5:43 PM CDT
Small or medium-size law firms that focus on structured finance and mergers and acquisitions are hardest hit by the credit crisis.
And associates could also take a hit if these…
Mar 24, 2008 11:28 AM CDT
A Canadian study suggests that having children leads to fewer billable hours for female lawyers and more for their male counterparts.
The study of 670 lawyers at an Alberta law…
Mar 24, 2008 11:06 AM CDT
Updated: Although it’s not yet confirmed, observers expect that a significant number of the 100 or so lawyers in the compliance department of Bear Stearns Cos. will be laid off…
Mar 20, 2008 3:30 PM CDT
We learned this week that criminal defense attorney Mickey Sherman, author of the new book How Can You…
Mar 20, 2008 3:01 PM CDT Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner has confirmed it will lay off 26 associates and 85 members of its support staff. Co-chairman Stephen…
Mar 20, 2008 11:15 AM CDT Updated: Pioneering securities class-action lawyer Melvyn Weiss has agreed to pay $10 million in fines and penalties and to serve up to 33 months in prison to resolve charges that…
Mar 20, 2008 10:39 AM CDT In what may be the first such investigation in the nation, prosecutors in New Jersey reportedly are investigating a controversial no-holds-barred college campus gossip website for possible consumer law violations. Mar 19, 2008 9:26 PM CDT Kansas City firm Husch Blackwell Sanders reports it has cut its attrition in half after it cut its lockstep evaluations of associates in 2001. “It doesn’t make a lot of…
Mar 18, 2008 9:18 PM CDT A former staff attorney at Covington & Burling’s office in Washington, D.C., contends that the law firm is improving its diversity profile by hiring black lawyers for low-level “ghetto” positions. Mar 18, 2008 5:30 PM CDT Maryland lawyer Charles Jay Zuckerman thought the new paralegal he hired would clean up the mess caused by a predecessor who stole from his client trust account. But the new…
Mar 18, 2008 2:14 PM CDT About a dozen large law firms have boosted maternity leave from 12 to 18 weeks in one of the first significant changes to parental policies in several years. One of…
Mar 18, 2008 11:58 AM CDTThelen Cuts 26 Associates, 85 Staffers
Melvyn Weiss to Plead Guilty; His Ex-Firm Changes Its Name
N.J. Prosecutors Investigate JuicyCampus Site
How Blackwell Sanders Cut Attrition in Half
BigLaw ‘Ghetto’? Former Staff Attorney Raps Covington’s D.C. Office
Lawyer Suspended After Second Paralegal Steals From Client Account
More Law Firms Boost Maternity Leave to 18 Weeks
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