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Belt-Tightening Saved BigLaw, and Lateral Hiring Could Boost Its Future

Belt-tightening saved large law firms in the short term, but it may not be enough to shore up profits in the long term, according to a law firm adviser. Law firm leaders will need to begin thinking and acting like CEOs to grow revenue and control costs, according to an…

May 6, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

2 Weeks from JD, Law Student Notches 4th Circuit Appellate Win

Dean Razavi hasn’t yet received his juris doctor degree, let alone started practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman. But the soon-to-be graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law has already scored his first major litigation victory, winning an ineffective assistance of counsel case in which he made the oral…

May 5, 2010 11:29 PM CDT

Embarassing Depo Wins Conn. Sect’y of State the Right to Run for AG Job

The embarrassing deposition was apparently worthwhile: A Duke University law graduate now serving as Connecticut’s secretary of state has won a court ruling that she has sufficient legal experience to run for election as the state’s attorney general. Hartford Superior Court Judge Michael Sheldon ruled today that Susan Bysiewicz’s work…

May 5, 2010 7:56 PM CDT

White & Williams Acquires 10 Edwards Angell Lawyers for ‘Booming’ D&O Work

Philadelphia-based law firm White & Williams is opening a suburban New York office with 10 lawyers from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. The Pleasantville, N.Y., office will focus on directors and officers liability insurance, the Legal Intelligencer reports. The move by the Edwards Angell lawyers, including partner John McCarrick, leaves…

May 5, 2010 2:56 PM CDT

Study Finds Experience ‘Sweet Spot’ for Associates Jumping to Corporate Jobs

Young lawyers being tracked in an American Bar Foundation study are extremely mobile, using their law firm experience to find other jobs, most often as corporate lawyers. The study found 19 percent of the 5,000 lawyers tracked were working in the business sector seven years after passing the bar, compared…

May 5, 2010 1:56 PM CDT

Bad News for Laid-Off Associates: BigLaw Is Shunning You, Recruiter Says

Laid-off associates looking for work may have a hard time finding a job in BigLaw, even at firms that are hiring. Many large law firms aren’t interested, even when associates have in-demand expertise, New York recruiter Marina Sirras tells the National Law Journal. “I have heard a lot of firms…

May 5, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

Latest Scott Turow Legal Thriller Puts ‘Innocent’ Rusty Sabich in New Murder Trial

After a 23-year gap, attorney and best-selling author Scott Turow has brought the lead character of one of his best-known legal thrillers back into the spotlight again as the defendant in a new murder case. Rusty Sabich, now over 60 and an appellate judge, is still in his stilted marriage…

May 4, 2010 8:46 PM CDT

NALP Numbers Tell Sad Story: Offers & Recruiting Plunge, But Law School Help Boosts Jobs Stat

Only about a dozen people attended a late-afternoon program in Puerto Rico on Friday in which executive director James Leipold of the National Association for Law Placement discussed the statistics NALP has developed on the recessionary legal economy. But they got an earful, Above the Law reports today: The rate…

May 4, 2010 1:05 AM CDT

Lawyer Wins Long Island Marathon Again, ‘Would Have Liked to Run Faster’

The last time Dan McGrath won the Long Island marathon, in 2008, he had to go back to the University of Notre Dame for a law school exam the next morning. But yesterday the 27-year-old New York practitioner was on home turf when he beat the heat and humidity to…

May 3, 2010 7:50 PM CDT

List of Top 10 Family-Friendly Law Firms Has Only Four Repeats

What a difference a year makes. Yale Law Women has released its list of the top 10 family friendly law firms, and six firms on last year’s list are gone. The group’s survey of large law firms shows BigLaw is offering more flexible career paths for women, but some statistics,…

May 3, 2010 12:53 PM CDT

Ethics May Require Challenges to Alzheimer’s-Impaired Lawyers

Alzheimer’s disease is not an ailment that announces its presence. It sneaks up, dropping hints of its existence that only become obvious when it is already wreaking havoc in the lives of its victims and their loved ones. The wife of a solo practitioner in Oklahoma knows that pattern all…

May 2, 2010 2:00 PM CDT

Why Are Lawyers Being Asked to Lead Some of the Nation’s Largest Corporations?

David Dillon loved law school, especially the criminal justice clinic. His law professors say he was a natural in the courtroom and a zealous defender of the underprivileged. There was never any doubt that he would be an extraordinary advocate. “F. Lee Bailey wrote a book that said you have…

May 2, 2010 1:31 PM CDT

CEO, Esq.

Why lawyers are being asked to lead some of the nation’s largest corporations

May 1, 2010 9:50 AM CDT

He Tries Men’s Soles

‘Tracker’ Joel Hardin claims he can tell the story of a crime from a footprint. But defense lawyers say he’s stepping outside the bounds of evidence.

May 1, 2010 9:30 AM CDT

A Man of Moderation

The last justice of the ‘greatest generation,’ gentlemanly John Paul Stevens says farewell

May 1, 2010 9:20 AM CDT

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