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ABA Launches Technology Marketplace Offering Member Discounts

The ABA has launched ABA TechEZ, an online directory of technology and services being offered at discounts for ABA members. So far, the directory includes about 25 software packages, ranging from billing programs to collaboration and legal research applications, according to a press release. The directory is meant to serve…

Nov 24, 2009 3:16 PM CST

Chair and Vice Chair of Howard Rice’s Business Practice Jump to Other Firms

The chair and vice chair of the business department of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin left last week to join to other law firms. Deborah Marshall, who chairs the department, went to Sidley Austin, where she will be joined by Howard Rice partners Hank Barry and Stephen Fronk,…

Nov 24, 2009 12:24 PM CST

Fighting for Marquee Law Firm Tenant, Landlord Sues Officials Over Incentives

A Chicago landlord is suing St. Louis and Missouri officials over a major law firm tenant that is allegedly being lured to another building with illegal taxpayer-funded incentives. Among the benefits that Lewis Rice & Fingersh expects to get from the move to One City Centre is $300,000 forgivable loan,…

Nov 23, 2009 11:31 PM CST

Too Embarrassed to Make Layoffs, Lawyer Stole $9.3M, Gets 7 Years

Too embarrassed to admit that he’d suffered financial reverses and make layoffs, a well-known Arkansas plaintiffs attorney instead admittedly stole $9.3 million from client trust funds he controlled to keep his law firm going. “I built several businesses. I went through a cash-flow crisis,” Steven Eugene Cauley told U.S. District…

Nov 23, 2009 9:52 PM CST

Sutherland Eliminates Lockstep, Cuts 1st-Year Pay in Atlanta

In the latest move by a market leader to eliminate the traditional lockstep progression toward partnership, Sutherland has reconfigured its 175 associates from year-by-year classes to three groups into which they advance based on skills. Their pay increases also will be tied to skills increases, recounts the Daily Report in…

Nov 23, 2009 8:39 PM CST

What In-House Counsel Want: Relationship Building and Quick Answers

Sometimes legal costs aren’t the most important thing to in-house counsel selecting their outside lawyers. In-house lawyers also want law firms that are willing to take the initiative to build the relationship, according to a National Law Journal report on a recent panel discussion in Boston. The panel at the…

Nov 23, 2009 7:42 PM CST

NY AG Took Money from Law Firms Representing Targets of His Office

Law firms representing clients targeted by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaign fund, a published report says. Contributors included Boies Schiller & Flexner, which gave $35,000 to Cuomo’s campaign this year, Bloomberg reports. The firm represents Hank Greenberg, the former CEO…

Nov 23, 2009 4:26 PM CST

Defendant Argues Law Firm’s YouTube Video Amounted to Defamation

A company accused in a class action lawsuit of selling a dietary supplement that doesn’t live up to its memory claims has turned the tables on the plaintiffs’ firm, claiming its lawyers gave interviews and posted a YouTube video with defamatory statements. On Friday, the class action defendant, Brain Research…

Nov 23, 2009 3:34 PM CST

Levi’s Is Paying Orrick a Flat Fee to Handle All But Its IP Work

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is earning a flat fee to handle all of the legal work worldwide for Levi Strauss & Co., with just one exception. Levi’s is paying Orrick an annual fee in monthly increments for all but its brand protection work, the Recorder (sub. req.) reports. Townsend and…

Nov 23, 2009 1:30 PM CST

A Death in the Office: Mark Levy’s Talent, Resumé & Friends Weren’t Enough

Mark Levy began his last day at Kilpatrick Stockton like he’d begun countless others. He pulled his Jaguar into the garage at the law firm two blocks from the White House just before 5:30 and took the elevator up to the 11th floor. Always an early riser, he enjoyed getting…

Nov 21, 2009 9:23 PM CST

Revenge Is Tweet, Finds Lobbyist Miffed By New York Times Story

Corrected: Aggravated by a critical New York Times article this week about a major client, the vice chairman of Washington, D.C.’s Cassidy & Associates lobbying firm struck back via social media. Turning to his personal Twitter feed, Gregg Hartley blasted the Times reporter who wrote the article for having an…

Nov 20, 2009 10:25 PM CST

Double Whammy for Some at Seyfarth: Deferred Start Plus Pay Cut, Too

In a double whammy for some incoming associates who expected to start work at Seyfarth Shaw in January, the law firm has deferred half of the incoming class until October—and cut first-year pay for all first-year associates. Seyfarth is deferring eight of the 16 new associates previously expected to begin…

Nov 20, 2009 8:22 PM CST

A Rothstein October Surprise: Hundreds of Missing Millions; Suit Blames Bank

Hundreds of millions of dollars disappeared last month from the accounts of South Florida law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, a receiver said today in a bankruptcy proceeding. Bloomberg covered the revelation by the dissolving law firm’s receiver, retired Miami Judge Herbert Stettin. “Huge amounts of money were moved and removed…

Nov 20, 2009 7:40 PM CST

Fieger Firm Agrees to Pay $131K to Resolve FEC Contributions Probe

The law firm of Michigan trial lawyer Geoffrey Fieger will pay $131,000 to resolve a probe by the Federal Election Commission, an amount that pales in comparison to the potential fine if commissioners had found a knowing violation of finance laws. The payment will resolve an FEC probe into contributions…

Nov 20, 2009 5:45 PM CST

64% of Law Departments Have or Will Implement Rate Freezes, Survey Says

Companies are trying to cut their legal budgets, and it’s affecting in-house lawyers whose salaries are frozen and outside law firms asked to reduce rates and offer alternatives to hourly rates. Alternative fees have been touted as the up-and-coming way to reduce outside legal costs. But law departments are trying…

Nov 20, 2009 3:30 PM CST

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Law Firms

ABA Launches Technology Marketplace Offering Member Discounts

Chair and Vice Chair of Howard Rice’s Business Practice Jump to Other Firms

Fighting for Marquee Law Firm Tenant, Landlord Sues Officials Over Incentives

Too Embarrassed to Make Layoffs, Lawyer Stole $9.3M, Gets 7 Years

Sutherland Eliminates Lockstep, Cuts 1st-Year Pay in Atlanta

What In-House Counsel Want: Relationship Building and Quick Answers

NY AG Took Money from Law Firms Representing Targets of His Office

Defendant Argues Law Firm’s YouTube Video Amounted to Defamation

Levi’s Is Paying Orrick a Flat Fee to Handle All But Its IP Work

A Death in the Office: Mark Levy’s Talent, Resumé & Friends Weren’t Enough

Revenge Is Tweet, Finds Lobbyist Miffed By New York Times Story

Double Whammy for Some at Seyfarth: Deferred Start Plus Pay Cut, Too

A Rothstein October Surprise: Hundreds of Missing Millions; Suit Blames Bank

Fieger Firm Agrees to Pay $131K to Resolve FEC Contributions Probe

64% of Law Departments Have or Will Implement Rate Freezes, Survey Says

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