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New Trends in Legal Education

New Trends in Legal Education

Law students are worried about an increasingly competitive job market and law schools are looking for ways to better prepare them for life after school. Several schools have begun adapting…

Arnold & Porter Begins Staff Layoffs

Arnold & Porter Begins Staff Layoffs

2009 marks the seventh consecutive year that Arnold & Porter LLP has been among the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. However, in these trying economic times the bottom…

UK Firm Eversheds to Shed Over 100 Jobs

UK Firm Eversheds to Shed Over 100 Jobs

Eversheds, a top UK law firm, is looking for ways to save a little money, or to, dare I say it, shed a few pounds. Its real estate practice is…

Two-Thirds of Drinker Biddle Summers Get Offers

Two-Thirds of Drinker Biddle Summers Get Offers

In a year marked by layoffs, deferred start dates and low offer rates, this almost sounds like good news. Drinker Biddle made offers to 25 out of 37 summer associates,…

Thursday News Roundup

Thursday News Roundup

Good morning! Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s top stories… Katten picked up four litigatorsfrom Hunton & Williams… Andrew Cuomo and Bank of America continued their public squabble… Sonnenschein undergoes…

Four White Collar Litigators Move from Hunton & Williams to Katten

Four White Collar Litigators Move from Hunton & Williams to Katten

Katten Muchin Rosenman picked up four litigators today from Hunton & Williams. Three partners, Steven Solow, Whitney Ellerman, and Karl Heisler along with one associate, Kristine Rembach, are making the…

Cuomo v Bank of America, Round 2

Cuomo v Bank of America, Round 2

Yesterday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo began running for Governor errr trying his case in the media when he publicly called on Bank of America to waive attorney-client privilege…

More Storm Clouds at Sonnenschein

More Storm Clouds at Sonnenschein

One week ago we reported on an unknown number of layoffs at Sonnenschein. Today we get word that the firm, whose name is German for “sunshine”, has let go of…

No Merger for Ice Miller and Greenbaum Doll

No Merger for Ice Miller and Greenbaum Doll

At the end of last year, Indianapolis firm Ice Miller began negotiating a merger with Greenbaum, Doll & McDonald. The merger was expected to take place by the end of…

Department of Labor Hiring 250 Investigators

Department of Labor Hiring 250 Investigators

Reacting to a report showing widespread violations of labor and wage laws in low paying urban jobs, the US Department of Labor is hiring 250 investigators as part of an…