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Meet Julia Morris, Sole Female Associate at Conn. Firm Who Became Its Managing Partner

When Julia Morris started work at O’Connell, Flaherty & Attmore in 1994, there were 16 lawyers at the Hartford, Conn., firm. But she was the only woman among them. Six years later, she became the firm’s first female partner. And in 2008 she became its managing partner, recounts the Connecticut…

Sep 10, 2010 7:19 PM CDT

Laid Off From BigLaw, Lawyer Posts Fliers Seeking Cleaning Work

A lawyer laid off last year from her $160,000-a-year job in BigLaw has posted fliers seeking work as a housekeeper. Alice Lingo has sought jobs as a lawyer and a paralegal, the New York Daily News reports. She has applied for 15 jobs as a waitress and 30 jobs as…

Sep 10, 2010 11:52 AM CDT

Kevin Houchin: An F-Word Manifesto; 4 F-Words to Revolutionize Your Life and Law Practice

7-word bio: “Entrepreneurial evangelist, creativity crusader, adept, husband, father.”

Sep 10, 2010 5:05 AM CDT

$160K Pay for New Associates Is Still the BigLaw Norm in Many Cities, Survey Finds

The gap between private sector and public interest salaries for lawyers is “stark and alarming,” despite pay cuts at some large firms, according to a legal career organization. The median first-year base salary for law firm associates is $115,000, while the median pay for entry-level public interest lawyers ranges from…

Sep 9, 2010 12:49 PM CDT

Stephanie Kimbro: Leverage the Internet to Serve Your Clients and Grow Your Practice

7-word bio: “Virtual law office pioneer and technology evangelist.”

Sep 9, 2010 11:30 AM CDT

Meet the Solo Who Wrote the Book on Virtual Law Practice

Stephanie Kimbro

Sep 9, 2010 11:20 AM CDT

New ‘Lower Cost’ Alternative Law Firm Adds 5 More Seyfarth Attorneys

Last week, a start-up employment boutique in the Chicago suburbs had an attorney roster of exactly three—its name partners, all of whom formerly practiced for many years at Seyfarth Shaw. But by the start of business this week, the fledgling firm more than doubled in size, with the addition of…

Sep 9, 2010 1:26 AM CDT

Law Firm’s Innovative Recruiting Idea: Shift Summer Program to 3L Fall, Offer Remote Options

Amidst all the talk of a paradigm shift in law practice, law school recruiting has stayed much the same. But a 190-attorney Nashville-based law firm has launched a bold new approach that is capturing national attention. Instead of continuing with its traditional summer program, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis is…

Sep 9, 2010 12:20 AM CDT

Record $10M Chicago Law Grad Gift Will Fund 60 Full-Tuition Merit Scholarships

Sixty students at the University of Chicago Law School will have their tuition paid in full thanks to a record $10 million gift from a 1973 graduate who himself got a full scholarship for his legal education there. The donation by David Rubenstein, 61, who is now a university trustee,…

Sep 8, 2010 6:46 PM CDT

Francine Ward: Speak Your Way to a Bigger Practice

7-word bio: “Copyright and trademark lawyer, author, motivational speaker.”

Sep 8, 2010 2:21 PM CDT

New Pay Package Keeps Time Warner GC in Third Place

Time Warner’s general counsel has signed a new contract that pays him $1.25 million a year, plus a possible bonus of $2.5 million. The pay package puts Paul Cappaccio third on Corporate Counsel’s list of the top paid- general counsel, THR, Esq. reports. It also puts him ahead of his…

Sep 8, 2010 12:20 PM CDT

John Grisham Reveals His Ill-Fated Plans to Be an Asphalt Man and Tax Lawyer

Even the most successful people don’t always follow a straight, upward trajectory to success. And that includes famous legal novelist John Grisham. Before college, he had a series of dead-end jobs, he writes for the New York Times. He helped lay chain-link fence for a nursery, crawled under houses for…

Sep 8, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

Interviewing for a Job? Try Asking This Question

A recently retired BigLaw partner has a suggestion for would-be associates interviewing for jobs with law firms. Writing for the American Lawyer, former Kirkland & Ellis partner Steven Harper says job hunters may be trying to figure out whether a law firm is a good fit. Toward that end, he…

Sep 8, 2010 10:30 AM CDT

Environmental Lawyer Dies While Climbing Mountain in Cascades

An environmental lawyer apparently lost his footing and fell to his death last week while mountain climbing in Washington’s North Cascades National Park. John Arum, 49, was a respected environmental lawyer with a love of the outdoors, the Associated Press reports. His father, boxing promoter Bob Arum, had left a…

Sep 7, 2010 5:36 PM CDT

Lunch Conversation Led Two Lawyers to Form Their Own Firm

A lunch conversation at a trial lawyers conference in 2008 led two female attorneys to form their own firm. Leslie McPadden makes a point of sitting with people she doesn’t know at such events, and she struck up a conversation with Rosa Rebimbas, recounts the Connecticut Law Tribune. It turned…

Sep 7, 2010 4:38 PM CDT