Think lawyers are feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of junk e-mails, random mailings, and other bits and bobs of time-wasting, brain-clogging, largely irrelevant information?
A new website launched Friday called LexMonitor features posts from legal blogs and journals that are aggregated by categories, making it easier to follow discussion about legal issues.
Shinyung Oh, the ousted Paul Hastings associate who sent a scathing mass e-mail denouncing the firm’s layoff tactics, is airing her feelings once again,…
Life as a summer associate may include editing footnotes, juggling multiple due dates, writing memos and, at least at one Toronto law firm, recording your experiences on a blog.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, law firm Simmons Perrine, forced to shut its doors in the devastating floods that hit the city, is reopening this week in a middle school in the…
The lawyer rating website Avvo has filed a petition with the Illinois Supreme Court requesting a disk with information about all of the state’s lawyers.
A federal magistrate in Baltimore has ruled a company sued for infringement has no attorney-client privilege in 165 documents mistakenly turned over to its opponent in e-discovery.
A West Virginia lawyer has been suspended for two years for accessing the e-mail of his wife and eight other lawyers at least 150 times over a two-year period.
A plaintiffs law firm didn’t succeed in blacking out large portions of information in briefs filed in a sex discrimination lawsuit against General Electric.
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.
