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The Boss Is Watching

And employees are finding they have fewer places to hide

Newsmakers of the Year 2007 and 2008

Editor’s Note:

When this article was posted online on December 12, 2007, it was titled “Lawyers of the Year 2007 and 2008.” The article defined that term as the year’s…

Readers’ Choice: Most-Read Stories at ABAJournal.com

What follows are the 10 most-read stories at ABAJournal.com since the site revamped and relaunched in late July:

1. 8…

Disquiet on the Outsourcing Front

The IRS Gets Less Charitable

New tax rules for charitable deductions create hurdles to taxpayer philanthropy

ForeBlawggers

Seven lawyers who started the blawg revolution

ABA Journal Blawg 100

When we set out to name the ABA Journal’s inaugural Blawg 100, we knew we were up for a challenge. There are between 2,000 and 3,000 legal blogs—what we call…

ABA Journal Names Its Blawg 100

If you want a break from your work or updates on breaking legal news, blawgs (the name for legal Web logs) are worth a visit. The ABA Journal has listed…

Top 10 Ethics Traps

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Perhaps there was a time when ethics rules for lawyers were straightforward and following them was largely a…

Law and Terror

Congratulations on September’s special issue, Law in the Age of Terror, which should be read by every lawyer in America.

This issue represents the kind of leadership and information on…

What Images Are Too Cliché for Law Firm Ads?

On his Business Development blog not long ago, lawyer and marketing expert Peter Darling made note of the images one should never use…

Can’t Blame the Boss for Ethical Lapse

John B. Bowden learned the hard way that blaming the boss gets you nowhere. Indeed, the South Carolina lawyer discovered shortly after beginning work in Greenville that his firm was…

Work Intrudes on Workouts

The ABA Journal is among the sweat-stained magazines at the gym of Washington Post reporter Peter Carlson, who wonders if work-related magazines are more of a D.C. phenomenon.

He confesses…

Sidley to Pay $27.5 M in EEOC Partner Case

Updated: In a settlement that should send shock waves throughout many of the nation’s major law firms, Sidley Austin has agreed to pay $27.5 million to resolve a landmark federal…

Want More Business? Here’s a How-To List

Does your daughter’s kindergarten teacher know you’re a lawyer? Do you send out press releases to the local weekly newspaper? Does the client for whom you just handled a real…

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