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GBS: Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
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Just a quick status update: The parties-plaintiff did file their "revised" settlement documents this evening. Ive got downloaded copies off of the filing system, and Ill point to them from a publicly accessible site when theyre available and verified.Im not impressed. (In fact, Im insulted... but that shouldnt be much ...8 hours ago -
Law Firms Review Compliance Measures After Attorney Arrests in Insider Cases
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Recent charges by federal authorities that three current or former BigLaw attorneys illegally made securities trades--two of them allegedly using inside information gleaned from the law firms that employed them--have sparked renewed vigilance at many legal partnerships. Law firms are reviewing the security measures ...14 hours ago -
Law Firm Loyalty Is Sometimes Overrated, Consultant Says
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Loyalty to a law firm is laudable—to a point, a consultant says. Lawyers also need to consider loyalty to clients, their families and themselves, according to Frank D’Amore, founder of the legal recruiting firm Attorney Career Catalysts. These allegiances are more important than loyalties to a law firm that is a ...20 hours ago -
Law Firm Informant Points Finger at Lawyer for Other Lawyers in Pension Cases
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A lawyer representing other lawyers in an ongoing probe of New York pensions being paid to attorneys who alleged did government legal work as private practitioners while being reported as state employees may himself have a dubious claim to his more than $120,000-a-year pension. Citing claims by an unidentified ...1 day ago -
FBI: Rothstein Scheme Could Top $1B; Filing: Firm Spent $1.4M in Escrow Funds
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In an apparent death blow for Rothstein Rosenfeld Adlers reported plan to reconfigure its law practice without co-founding partner and accused Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition filed by several investors claims that the law firm improperly transferred $1.4 million of client funds ...1 day ago -
Latest Baker Hostetler Growth Spurt Starts With New Office in Chicago
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In the latest move in an ongoing growth strategy, Baker Hostetler has announced today the opening of a new office in Chicago. The more than 600-attorney Ohio-based firm now lists on its website a four-lawyer office in the Windy City on the 31st floor of 191 N. Wacker Drive. A press release says the new office will be ...1 day ago -
Are There Radical Lawyers?
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The Times Online has a curious nostalgia piece entitled, “ Whatever happened to the radical lawyers ,” that keys off Michael Mansfield ’s autobiography, Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer (co-written with Yvette Vanson). Mansfield, president of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, has been practising in ...1 day ago -
Bias Complaint Against Williams Mullen Alleges Cucumber Prank
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A former case manager for the Richmond, Va.-based Williams Mullen law firm has filed a sexual harassment and discrimination complaint that claims she was subjected to derogatory remarks and a prank involving a cucumber. The 18-year employee, Hanh Nguyen Allgood, seeks $950,000 in the federal suit filed in Norfolk, ...1 day ago -
Law Offices Opt for Smaller Spaces and ‘More Basic’ Appointments
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Law firms are shrinking in more ways than one. Law firms are shedding employees, and their office spaces are getting smaller, causing a glut of space for rent. A report by real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle found that more than 6 million square feet of built-out law firm office space is available, the ...1 day ago -
LeClairRyan’s West Coast Growth Is Slowed By Little-Known Name
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Well-known closer to home as a rapidly growing Virginia-based law firm with more than 300 attorneys on its roster, LeClairRyan is now looking to expand in California. But a lack of name recognition on the West Coast is slowing down its efforts to increase its 20-attorney contingent in Los Angeles and San Francisco to ...2 days ago -
Despite Downturn, Top UK Lawyers Make Mega-Money
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Although the economic downturn has lightened the wallets of even the highest-paid lawyers, many are still bringing home seven-figure paychecks. Among the top London-based BigLaw firms, partners made about 20 percent less in 2008-2009 than the previous fiscal year, reports the London Times. But they still earned an ...2 days ago -
Its a Job, Not an Adventure
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In this time of job losses and economic hardship, its especially frustrating to see people who have jobs not doing them. One of the biggest problems with so-called "tort reform" is that its so one-sided: It focuses exclusively on "frivolous" claims without considering frivolous defenses and/or unfair defense tactics. ...2 days ago -
Holdout Covington & Burling Freezes Salaries Outside New York
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Covington & Burling had been something of a holdout, refusing to freeze associate salaries even as other large law firms froze or cut pay. Now Covington has announced it will be freezing salaries after all, but only in offices outside of New York City. Above the Law broke the news. The firm issued this statement ...3 days ago -
Response to “Ethical Pitfalls of Virtual Law Practice”
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This past week an article came out in Lawyers USA Online entitled, “Ethical pitfalls of virtual law practice.” The article discusses some of the ethics risks that exist in this form of law practice. However, there are a number of safe-guards and smart practices that an attorney may engage in to avoid ...3 days ago -
Five-Star Law Firms? ACC Publishes Ratings, to Mixed Reviews
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Clients’ one- to five-star ratings of law firms are being published online for all 25,000 members of the Association of Corporate Counsel, but the report cards will be off-limits to law firms, at least for now. So far, 1,500 in-house lawyers have submitted reviews of legal acumen and costs for about 500 law firms. ...3 days ago -
Sometimes This Job Is Kind of Sick
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Yesterday I spent half an hour debating whether it would be ethically permissible to have our sweet, innocent young clerk send a friend request on MySpace to the complaining witness in a sexual abuse case in order to get access to a greater array of the lesbian bondage, drinking, and partying pictures the witness ...3 days ago -
The Myth of Work Life Balance in Law
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I am totally exhausted after a day involving a chambers application, client meetings, attempting to settle a high conflict matter likely headed to litigation despite all efforts and then coming home to two children under four with a husband out of town. And, Monday is my day to post on Slaw … Which leads to me to ...4 days ago -
Ex-SEC Lawyer Pleads in Dreier Case, Got $100K to Play Role re $44M in Fake Notes
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A lawyer who formerly worked in the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has pleaded guilty to helping attorney Marc Dreier try to sell $44.7 million of fake notes to sophisticated investors. Robert Miller, 52, said Dreier paid him $100,000 to impersonate individuals at a Canadian ...4 days ago -
Day Pitney Axes 29 Staff in 3rd Round of Announced Layoffs This Year
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Day Pitney let 29 staff members go last week, in the law firms third round of layoffs this year. The 400-attorney Hartford, Conn.-based Northeast regional law firm also laid off 20 lawyers in May and 66 staff members in February, reports the Connecticut Law Tribune. James Sicilian, the firms co-managing partner, tells ...4 days ago -
Boastful Contract Lawsuit Is Dismissed
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I’ve posted on a lawsuit out of Texas , in which a law student plaintiff sued a lawyer defendant for failing to live up to a “promise” to pay $1,000,000 to any television viewer who could prove him wrong about his theory of a case. I opined the case was a classic example of puffery, unlikely to reach the ...4 days ago
