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• Seyfarth Partner Sues Over Demotion, Claims Core Values Just a Marketing Tool

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  A Seyfarth Shaw partner who was demoted after a $30 million malpractice verdict that targeted his advice has sued his law firm in a complaint that derides its emphasis on profits. Lawyer William Lancaster claims in the lawsuit (PDF) that he was forced to accept a demotion and an unfair pay cut, even as the law firm ...
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• Courthouse Abuzz Over DA’s Blanket Boycott of Longtime Judge

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Since being appointed to the state-court bench in 1995, a Southern California judge has presided over numerous high-profile cases and served in a series of leading administrative roles. But San Diego Superior Court Judge John Einhorn isnt as busy as he was on the criminal side, thanks to a blanket boycott by the local ...
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• Not Sending Clients Copy of Retainer a Costly Mistake for Law Firm

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Delay in providing clients with a full copy of the applicable retainer agreement for their matter has cost a New Jersey law firm a six-figure sum. Reversing an earlier award of $163,000 to Alpert Butler & Weiss for unpaid legal fees and the cost of pursuing their collection action, a state appeals court nixed the ...
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• Clean & Sober for 6 Years, Lawyer Starts New Solo Practice

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Although he pleaded guilty in 1992 to misdemeanor cocaine use two years earlier, Terry Nolan didnt realize he had a substance abuse problem. He stopped drinking, for good, in 1998, the Michigan defense attorney tells the Muskegon Chronicle. But, fueled with the funds brought in by his successful law practice, he kept ...
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• Cashing Out

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  For the estimated 400,000 lawyers who will enter retirement age over the next nine years, selling a law practice is a way to produce an income stream and free up time for pursuing other interests.But whatever the motivation to sell, experts agree that planning is fundamental.
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• Practice Pitfalls

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Note: Register for this months CLE, "Ethics Pitfalls for Practitioners," from 1-2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
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• Web 2.Uh-oh

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  With social networkers busily constructing walls of information about themselves, it was only a matter of time before the courts took notice.
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• Mobilization

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  We’re all going mobile these days. the combination of smartphones, apps, mobile browsers, high-speed access and reasonably priced data plans has given us the tools for all-the-time access to the Internet from anywhere. The mobile platform is here.
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• Pro Bono Blockbuster

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  A few days before the first-ever national pro bono cele­bration Week got under way, the number of events listed on its website reached 500, with at least one program in every state. That’s when Mark I. Schickman knew he had a hit on his hands.“Frankly, we thought if we got 100 events this year we’d be doing ...
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• BigLaw Partner Promotions Plummet, Even at Highly Profitable Wachtell

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Last year, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz promoted six attorneys to partner. This year, despite being the most profitable firm in the country, it named only two new partners this month. And its far from alone in reducing its ownership ranks. Many BigLaw firms are promoting fewer associates to partner this year, in ...
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• Legal Secretary Sends E-Mail About Cancer Surgery, Is Fired, Suit Says

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Within two hours after she e-mailed everyone at her New York law firm that she had cancer and was going to have to take two weeks off for surgery, a legal secretary had been fired, she alleges in a lawsuit. Theodora Benedict, 61, was invited to return to Tarnow & Juvelier several weeks later, after filing a ...
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• Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic Supports “No-Condoms-as-Evidence-of–Prostitution” Bill

  
  clinicians with not enough to do — Authority: 134
  From KATHERINE FRANKE of the Gender and Sexual Orientation Law Blog: New York’s police and prosecutors should not be permitted to introduce condoms as evidence of prostitution and...
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• Chadbourne’s Bonus Aims to Repay Cut Salaries

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Associates and staffers at Chadbourne & Parke who saw their pay cut last April will get the money back early next year in a lump sum payment.The decision, announced internally in September, was publicly disclosed last week, the New York Law Journal reports.Chadbourne never specified the amount of the pay cuts ...
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• Mobilization

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  We’re all going mobile these days. the combination of smartphones, apps, mobile browsers, high-speed access and reasonably priced data plans has given us the tools for all-the-time access to the Internet from anywhere. The mobile platform is here.
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• Social networking as just another tool

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 134
  I find Kevin O’Keefe’s blog, “Real Lawyers Have Blogs” insightful and practical.  I often agree with his take on social networking and blogging.  However, I think this post , sets out the wrong framework for looking at social networking.  Its the gee-whiz approach, the breaking down barriers, taking big ...
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• No Admission For Internet Law Graduate In Georgia

  
  Chuck Newton — Authority: 458
  In a decision by The Supreme Court of Georgia, Joyce K. Batterson will be denied a waiver to licensed in that state in that she graduated from an online law school, licensed by the State of California, Northwestern California University School of Law . According to the Georgia Supreme Court Decision , the Georgia ...
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• The Honourable Profession of Law

  
  Slaw — Authority: 605
  Three unrelated thoughts on law and honour. Professor Stephen Gillers, who teaches legal ethics at NYU spoke at Central Synagogue’s 2009 Jethro Shabbat Program and Dinner on February 13, 2009. The entire speech is worthy of consideration. But let me extract what he says about transaction lawyers. All too ...
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• Modesty

  
  Chuck Newton — Authority: 458
  I am often asked to describe the attributes of the Third Wave practice of law.  In this regard, I have often struggled with possibly the right descriptions.  Sure it is easy to talk about features, to use a marketing phrase, but attributes are much different.  After all, attributes, when you think about it, ...
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• Haynes and Boone Sets Incoming Associates’ Pay to $145K

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  The 38 first-year associates who start Monday at Haynes and Boone offices in Texas will do so at a $145,000 annual salary—although that may only be for the last month of 2009. “We haven’t decided what we are paying in 2010. We are trying to figure out what the market is,” Richard Fijolek of Dallas, the ...
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