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Involuntary Departures From Law Firms on the Rise

Posted on March 21, 2008
Whether by layoff or outright termination, there's a bunch of stories in this week's news on lawyers' involuntary departures from law firms. As reported by Above the Law, California-based Thelen Reid laid off 26 associates and 85 staff members "in...

In the Ukraine, East Meets West and West Meets East

Posted on March 21, 2008
In a global economy, Eastern and Western European law firms are converging in the Ukraine, adopting different approaches to capitalize on a booming business market. One Western European firm, London-based Clifford Chance, announced plans to set up shop in the...

Attorney Has 'Scoop' on Herself

Posted on March 20, 2008
What's the expression? Any publicity is good publicity? That must explain why self-proclaimed celebrity attorney Vicki Roberts issued a press release today outing herself as actor Gary Busey's companion during his now notorious appearance at this year's Academy Awards ceremony...

Agent Orange: Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted on March 20, 2008
Here is a month-old news story that completely passed me by: Three Feb. 22 decisions from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected claims for damages brought by U.S. veterans and Vietnamese nationals against manufacturers of the defoliant...

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Best Schools for Aspiring Law Profs

Posted on March 20, 2008
Are you an aspiring law student hoping for a career in the lucrative and rewarding field of law professorship? Then Yale Law School may be for you. According to Brian Leiter's ranking of the top producers of new law teachers,...

Snyder: Underplaying the Race Card

Posted on March 20, 2008
Recent political developments, Barack Obama told us Tuesday, "reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through -- a part of our union that we have yet to perfect." Given yesterday's 7-2 Supreme Court decision,...

Libby Loses D.C. Law License

Posted on March 20, 2008
Via Legal Profession Blog comes news today that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been disbarred. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued the brief order today, disbarring the former White House adviser who was convicted of perjury and obstruction...

DC v. Heller Roundup of Scattershot Blog Posts

Posted on March 19, 2008
Yesterday's oral argument in D.C. v. Heller, addressing the issue of whether the District of Columbia's expansive handgun ban violates the Second Amendment, provided plenty of ammunition for law bloggers to discuss. Based on the oral argument, some are predicting...

Quickie Presidential Campaign Roundup

Posted on March 19, 2008
It's been a while since our last presidential primary roundup, so here's the latest installment. Will Heller Shoot Down McCain's Chance to Lure Conservatives? - Orin Kerr, from his perch at Slate's new legal blog, Convictions thinks that John McCain's...

Waiver Means Harvard Public Interest-Bound Students Wave Goodbye to 3L Tuition

Posted on March 19, 2008
Public interest-bound Harvard Law students can wave goodbye to 3L tuition, with the recent announcement that Harvard Law School will waive tuition for third years who pledge to spend five years working for nonprofit organizations or the government. While many...

Go East, Young Lawyer

Posted on March 19, 2008
While there are plenty of lawyers in the United States who can't find a job, 9,531 miles across the globe, Singapore faces a shortage, reports Jed Yoong in the Asia Sentinel. Consider these statistics: On balance, only about 75 additional...

Roundup: Legal News Worth Noting

Posted on March 18, 2008
Man Files Suit, Claims Lap Dance Injury. No he is not a politician. Internet citation patent for sale. Will go to the highest bidder. Small firm ordered to pay $5.2M for unlawful attorneys' fees. Includes $1 million in punitives. Minnesota's...

Europeans Fear U.S. Courts Over Russian

Posted on March 18, 2008
Here is wake-up call, if ever there was one: In-house counsel employed by European businesses would prefer to face a major legal dispute in Russia or China over the United States. A report yesterday in Times Online cites a survey...

Best and Worst Tort States

Posted on March 18, 2008
Worst of the 50 states for tort costs and litigation risks is Florida, while the best is North Dakota. So says a new report from the Pacific Research Institute comparing the legal climates of all 50 states: U.S. Tort Liability...

Harvard Law Students Rally for Poker

Posted on March 18, 2008
I would bet Harvard law students anted a good turnout for their rally this morning outside the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill. What brought them out on this bright but chilly morning was Gov. Deval Patrick's gaming bill, which...

Dear Kevin O'Keefe ...

Posted on March 18, 2008
Dear Kevin, Please accept this belated get-well wish for your illness during ABA Techshow. No, no one told me you were sick. But I could read between the lines. How else to explain your total lack of liveblogging during your...

E-Shaming Johns As an Alternative to Prosecution

Posted on March 17, 2008
The Eliot Spitzer scandal may have ended today with the swearing in of David Paterson as New York's governor, but some of the questions that the incident brought to light remain. For example, many have argued that Spitzer should not...

Georgetown Law Grad Says Big Law Segregation Reminiscent of Jim Crow

Posted on March 17, 2008
Georgetown Law-educated attorney Yolanda Young doesn't mince words. In a provocative essay posted earlier today at Huffington Post, Young argues that the Jim Crow policies of separate but unequal are alive and well at the nation's top law firms. If...

Bear Stearns Bail Out -- No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

Posted on March 17, 2008
This past weekend's bail out of Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns proves the old aphorism that there's no such thing as a free lunch. As detailed by CNN, the Fed's agreement to buy up to $30 million in troubled...

Pro Se Wins Murder Trial... What Are the Odds of That?

Posted on March 17, 2008
Harold Stewart is one lucky guy. He beat murder charges in a Prince George's County, Maryland courtroom not just once, but twice. The first time, the judge declared a mistrial after discovering that one of the jurors did not speak...

More on the Mess in Minnesota

Posted on March 14, 2008
I wrote here last month about the mess in the Minnesota AG's office, involving staff attorneys' efforts to unionize the office of Attorney General Lori Swanson. Now, one of the staff attorneys active in those efforts, Amy Lawler, has been...

ABA Techshow, the Vicarious Version

Posted on March 14, 2008
Sigh. ABA Techshow is underway in Chicago and this year I'm not there. I will try to make the best of my absence by participating vicariously through the Techshow Buzz. As Techshow Chair Tom Mighell wrote on the Techshow Blog,...

Spread Some Sunshine Next Week

Posted on March 14, 2008
In 1933, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote the time-honored words, "Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant." As the past week's events dramatically illustrated, no public official, no matter how spotless his or her record appears, should ever be immune...

First Black Governor Honors the Second

Posted on March 14, 2008
With the stage set for New York Lt. Gov. David Paterson to become only the third black governor in the United States since Reconstruction, the nation's first and second black governors were at Howard University in Washington, D.C., last weekend...

New Jersey's Fight to Keep Lawyer Records from Avvo: Privacy or Profit Motive?

Posted on March 13, 2008
Controversial ranking service Avvo is back in court. But this time, Avvo isn't being sued. Instead, Avvo has filed a lawsuit to compel the New Jersey Supreme Court to release public records containing the names and basic information about lawyers...

Law Firm Offers Nifty Deal: We'll Pay You to Retire at Fifty

Posted on March 13, 2008
Is it really nifty to be fifty? It might be, if you hit the big 5-0 and you're a lawyer at O'Melveny & Myers. Last Friday, the Legal Pad broke the story that O'Melveny is offering early retirement to lawyers...

Law School Learns From Report and Reforms 3L Curriculum

Posted on March 13, 2008
Virginia-based Washington & Lee University School of Law is a teacher of law, but perhaps more importantly, the school recently proved that it's also a model student. As the National Law Journal reports, the law school learned a number of...

Study Tracks Subprime Litigation

Posted on March 12, 2008
Hat tip to Consumer Law & Policy Blog for alerting us to a new report from Navigant Consulting tracking trends in subprime mortgage litigation. It found 278 subprime-related cases filed in federal court in 2007, with well over half filed...

Two D.C. Items of Note

Posted on March 12, 2008
Tony Mauro, writing at The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes, has two items of note. First, Mauro reports that the Judicial Conference has approved new rules for handling judicial misconduct complaints. "Responding to pressure from Congress and others for greater...

Spitzer and Wall: Harvard Power Couple

Posted on March 12, 2008
What a difference a year makes. It was just last year that 02138, a swanky lifestyle magazine for Harvard alumni, featured law grads Silda Wall and Eliot Spitzer on its cover -- the couple selected to illustrate the magazine's Winter...

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