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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
In her Wisconsin Law Journal column, Jane Pribek has compiled some law practice management tips culled from various legal blogs, including WisBlawg. She reviews "Firefox 'add-ons' for attorneys" for archiving and citing resources, as well as "miscellaneous money-savers" for directory...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Law Journal, an ALM publication, today reported the biggest drop ever in total employment at the NLJ 250, the nation’s 250 largest law firms ranked by headcount. The total number of attorneys for the group declined by 4.0 percent this year, from 131,928 in 2008 to 126,669 in 2009. This is only the third time that attorney totals have declined since...
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
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. Critics say the reviews create concern because they may be submitted anonymously,...
tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Image via Wikipedia Though I don't practice law, I'm a proud graduate of the University of Richmond Law School - it was an extraordinary three years of my life. It was there that I really learned how to think critically, learned how to argue (much to my wife's chagrin), and learned how to be an entrepreneur. Yeah, you read that right. Law school is hardly where one thinks about being (let alone becoming)...
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation. The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes his former employer, reports the New Jersey Law Journal. But within less than...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Source: NLJ.com, November 9, 2009. Subscription required for online access: This Year's NLJ 250 Shows Most D.C. Firms Not Immune to Downturn "According to this year's National Law Journal 250 survey, the economic crisis of 2008 did not spare the majority of Washington-based firms. Of the 17 firms with primary offices in Washington, 10 posted drops in their overall headcount." Bilski...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
If you are already an online subscriber to this service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access any of the decisions listed which interest you. http://www.nylj.com Subscription required for online access unless otherwise noted: APPELLATE DIVISION THIRD DEPARTMENT Environmental Law Free With Registration: Local Officials Did Not Overstep in Going Beyond State...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Source: http://www.nylj.com Subscription required for online access unless otherwise noted: Free: Insider Trading Probe Nets Lawyers "Attorneys Arthur J. Cutillo and Jason Goldfarb were among several people arrested Thursday in a rapidly expanding hedge fund insider trading scandal that broke three weeks ago with the arrest of Raj Rajaratnam, head of the hedge fund Galleon Management, and five...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Source: http://www.nylj.com November 10, 2009 Subscription required for online access unless otherwise noted: Free With Registration: Court System Moves to Bolster Merger Showing 'Mixed Results' Vance Appoints Transition Chair, 'Broad Range' of Policy Advisers Amended Charging Document Undercuts Proof of Intent, Judge Says News In Brief Free: Former Police Commissioner, a 9/11 Hero, Pleads Guilty...
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | yesterday
A survey of the nation’s top 250 law firms shows they collectively shed 5,259 lawyers in the past year, a drop of 4 percent. The drop is the largest since the National Law Journal started collecting the information in 1978. The survey has recorded only two other declines—a drop of less than 1 percent in 1993, and a 1 percent drop in 1992, according to a National Law Journal...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | yesterday
... whether sanctions under Rule 37(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure can be imposed upon the lawyers as well as the errant parties for discovery misconduct, whether a federal judge may consider for summary judgment purposes unverified documents or unsworn reports from an expert if the expert later provides an affidavit verifying his reports, and whether an admission of fact contained in an...
Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
According to the National Law Journal, the EEOC will soon release statistics showing that age claims declined in the past year — defying all conventional wisdom. The EEOC says that age claims were down 7% last year. That’s pretty shocking, especially considering all the RIF activity nationwide and the EEOC’s announced intention to more aggressively enforce [...]
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Source: NLJ.com, November 10, 2009 Subscription required for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Justices grapple with constitutionality of juvenile sentences "The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday over whether states violate the Constitution by imposing a sentence of life without parole on juveniles who commit nonhomicide offenses." Justices greet Bilski...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you are already an online subscriber to this service you should be able to click on any of the links proveded below, sign in, and access any of the decisions listed which interest you. http://www.nylj.com Subscription required for online access unless otherwise noted: Monday, November 9, 2009 Lawyer Denies U.S. Claim of Partnership With Seminerio Sentence Given by Judge Who Erred on Maximum Is...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Defendants' Actions Into Single Trial People v. Marcial Sub. Req. NASSAU COUNTY Landlord/Tenant Law Landlord's Motion to Resettle Order Is Denied;Also Denied Arrears, Rent as Waived in Stipulation Nationwide Protection Ltd. v. Martinez Sub. Req. U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Civil Practice Court Lacks Personal Jurisdiction in New York Firms'Contract Breach Suit Against Canadian...
