Law firms are embracing a three-tiered “caste system” of lawyers, a development that is bad news for law students hoping to land high-paid associate jobs in BigLaw.
Kavitha Mukund is a cum laude graduate of Pace University School of Law who speaks three languages. Her classmate, Jennifer Lincoln, was an intern at the Hague’s International Criminal Tribunal.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a direct action against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, alleging that it pays women lawyers in non-supervisory jobs less…
Summer associates are an easygoing bunch. They gave top grades to their law firms in a new survey, reporting there was lots of good work to go around and time…
A Miami law firm says its “mortgage terminator” lawsuits are transferring ownership of abandoned properties to condominium associations when banks delay initiating foreclosure proceedings.
A former partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges began to explore volunteer opportunities after working on a complicated case, eventually landing him a new role as general counsel for a…
The controversial classroom ban on student laptop use that some law schools have instituted is “a manageable problem with a market solution,” a law professor suggests.
In a 2004 will, Josephine Smoron left almost all her considerable assets, which included a dairy farm, to her longtime caretaker. A subsequent estate document in 2006 explained that she…
Jury selection began this morning, under extraordinary security measures, for the trial of a man accused of killing an Ohio criminal defense attorney who was his live-in girlfriend and, subsequently,…
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