Features

Justice Systems Sent Reeling

Across the nation, state and local justice systems are feeling the effects of the economic crisis. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported in November that 31 states faced midyear budget shortfalls. The following represent just some of the problems justice systems were facing.

Jan 1, 2009 11:15 AM CST

Pooling Practices

Law firms are creating task forces to meet demands of a fast-developing crisis

Jan 1, 2009 11:09 AM CST

14,307 Lawyers Predict the Future

Most American lawyers expect the recession to affect a broad swath of the legal profession and last for quite some time. Our survey was answered by 14,307 attorneys—more than 1.3 percent of the nation’s 1.1 million lawyers.

Jan 1, 2009 11:05 AM CST

‘We had to talk to the debtors to get smart’

Dennis Dunne, partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Jan 1, 2009 10:30 AM CST

‘Every day was totally pressure-filled, client-filled. There was no break.’

H. Rodgin Cohen, chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell

Jan 1, 2009 10:25 AM CST

‘I need to advise them to fall behind on their payments, and that’s ludicrous to me.’

Arnettia Wright, sole practitioner, Wright Law Group

Jan 1, 2009 10:20 AM CST

‘You can’t calm directors by telling them it’s all going to be OK.’

Robert Joffe, partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Jan 1, 2009 10:15 AM CST

‘The best time to get divorced for the moneyed spouse is when everything has gone to the devil.’

Eleanor Breitel Alter, partner with Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman

Jan 1, 2009 10:10 AM CST

‘All of these state regulators are involved; the press is waiting outside. The stakes are high.’

Angela Angelakos, enforcement attorney, Office of the Illinois Secretary of State, Securities Department

Jan 1, 2009 10:05 AM CST

One-Hit Wonders

These blogs generated a lot of buzz in 2008, but they didn’t make it into the Blawg 100. And for whatever reasons, their moment seems to have passed.

Dec 2, 2008 5:45 AM CST

Social Promotion

Social network sites work for you, but only if you work at them

Dec 2, 2008 5:40 AM CST

The ABA Gets Social

LegallyMinded.com is more than just the ABA’s entry into the social networking universe. It’s a combination of the best features of the top social networking sites and substantive legal data from the ABA’s deep library of information. The new site opened to the public in October. “We set out to…

Dec 2, 2008 5:39 AM CST

Ann Althouse Reads With an ‘Eye for the Bloggable’

Ann Althouse Althouse, althouse.blogspot.com Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison When Ann Althouse decided in January 2004 to start blogging for the sheer pleasure of expressing her opinion, it was as if she was born for reader-driven communication. While many others in the legal profession have entered the blogosphere…

Dec 2, 2008 5:38 AM CST

To Ernie Svenson, Blogging is ‘Largely a Selfish Activity’

Ernie Svenson Ernie the Attorney, ernietheattorney.net Solo practitioner, Svenson Law Firm, New Orleans Svenson’s Ernie the Attorney blog is a blogroll favorite, whether for his aw-shucks, down-to-earth style or the fact that he blogged his way through two major hurricanes—first Katrina, then Gustav. By the time of Gustav, Svenson had…

Dec 2, 2008 5:30 AM CST

Paper Chase is ‘Doing Public Service,’ Sharing Info Real Time and For Free

Bernard Hibbitts (and students) Jurist—Paper Chase, jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase Associate Dean for Communications & Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Jurist—Paper Chase is a robust legal news site filled with well-sourced and timely news. Much of the focus is on international law and world justice issues. And most of the…

Dec 2, 2008 5:20 AM CST