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Pakistan Prez, Top Judge Reconciling?

Four months after he sought to remove Pakistan’s top judge from the bench, the country’s president is now trying to get back on his good side. After a July 20 decision by the Pakistan Supreme Court that Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry had been improperly suspended in March and must…

Aug 1, 2007 6:31 PM CDT

New Routes Into the Corporate Door

Sidebar To: The Billable Hour Must Die Web Extra: Who’s Using Legal OnRamp

Aug 1, 2007 1:33 PM CDT

The Ultimate Question

A courthouse conversation brings a lawyer’s purpose into sharper focus

Aug 1, 2007 12:50 PM CDT

Go Google Yourself!

Blogs and Web sites may tell employers more than you want them to know

Aug 1, 2007 12:33 PM CDT

The Billable Hour Must Die

It rewards inefficiency. It makes clients suspicious. And it may be unethical.

Aug 1, 2007 8:54 AM CDT

“So, this lawyer walks into a bar ...”

Days before Cassandra E. Hooks was to sit for the California bar exam, her 4-year-old son was hospitalized with a bacterial infection.

Aug 1, 2007 8:30 AM CDT

Career Coach Aids Anxious Associates

Hey, law firm associates: Are you unhappy with your job? Looking for an in-house gig? Worried about making partner? Just trying to find a way to have a home life as well as a work life? No problem–if you work at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. The 1,200-lawyer firm has…

Jul 30, 2007 11:59 PM CDT

Dear Son: I Stole From Firm Clients

When attorney Christopher Hoyt began reading the letter from his father earlier this month, it was clear he wasn’t going to be having a good day. “I have embezzled funds from my clients,” his father, Clinton, Conn., attorney Jonathan Hoyt, wrote in the July 7 missive. It includes advice on…

Jul 30, 2007 11:06 PM CDT

Deputy AG Jumps to Baker

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty is jumping to a big law firm: Baker & McKenzie. His new job should pay enough to help him finance college for his children, his stated reason for leaving the Justice Department. The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog reports that McNulty will work in the…

Jul 30, 2007 8:39 PM CDT

Atty Dad, Atty Daughter Fight for Viacom

Corrected: Recently, 84-year-old Sumner Redstone has won or settled lawsuits with several relatives concerning the $50 billion Viacom Inc. media empire he was instrumental in creating. But now he may well be facing his toughest opponent yet–his 53-year-old daughter, Shari Redstone. Until lately her father’s heir-apparent and a 20 percent…

Jul 30, 2007 8:28 PM CDT

1st Native American Lawyer in SD Dies

Corrected: Ramon Roubideaux, a well-known American Indian lawyer who represented activists involved in the 71-day standoff at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1973, has died. He was 82. Reportedly the first Native American to go into private practice in the state, Roubideaux worked…

Jul 30, 2007 7:40 PM CDT

This Law Grad Better at Business

If you are wondering if law is really the career for you, the experience of Jim Lanzone could prove inspirational. He attended Emory University law school in Atlanta and “hated it from the moment I started,” according to an article in the New York Times. As a summer associate, “I…

Jul 30, 2007 12:19 PM CDT

NJ Firm Bows Head re Unadmitted Atty

In a rare sanction of a law firm that names no individual partner names, the New Jersey Supreme Court has reprimanded Newark-based Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross for allowing an associate not admitted to the state bar to work on transactional matters for seven years. There are conflicting accounts of…

Jul 27, 2007 12:03 AM CDT

Bar Exam Film Ups Ante for 6 Law Grads

It’s hard enough just studying for the bar exam. But six California law graduates decided to up the ante even further by doing so in the public eye. Responding to a 2006 request by documentary filmmakers, they agreed to allow video footage of everything from crying jags and the struggle…

Jul 26, 2007 6:24 PM CDT

NY Bar Exam Marred by Glitch

Bar examiners in New York suspect a software glitch caused test takers to experience problems this week saving and uploading their essays. Diane Bosse, chairwoman of the Board of Law Examiners, told the New York Law Journal that officials are trying to determine if any answers were lost. She says…

Jul 26, 2007 1:06 PM CDT