Kilpatrick Stockton has added two partners to its financial institutions team. Paul S. Pilecki and Michael A. Mancusi will be joining the firm’s Washington D.C. office from Winston & Strawn. Pilecki’s practice concentrates on representation of foreign and domestic banking organizations on regulatory and corporate matters. He also has experience helping bank organizations plan new activities [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The American Bar Association will cut the cost of dues for solo practitioners, government lawyers, judges and attorneys working for nonprofit organizations. The ABA is doing this in response to the recession and the varying economic circumstances lawyers working in these fields or situations may face. At their midyear meeting in Orlando, Florida the new dues [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
A study released by the University at Albany-SUNY’s Center for Women in Government and Civil Society found that women judges are still under-represented across the United States. Only New Jersey and Connecticut had achieved a “critical mass” of 33% of women in federal judgeships. In eight states one third of state judgeships are filled by [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 25, 2010
John Jason Mings committed suicide last Monday according to police findings released to the public. He was 45 years old. Mings was a partner in the Houston office of Baker Hostetler, specializing in intellectual property and patent law. He joined the firm in December 2008 from Fulbright & Jaworski, where he was a partner [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 28, 2009
Despite recent efforts from the American Bar Association to help recent law school graduates defer their student loans, neither the Obama administration nor Congress have gone along with the ABA’s proposal. Carolyn Lamm, ABA President, said last week that the association will keep pushing by building support for student loan relief for recent graduates. The ABA has [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 19, 2009
Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, November 19 and this is your quick look back at the headlines. A judge in Louisiana held that the US Army is liable for some Katrina damage… Google debuts its new case law database…. Winston & Strawn has two new offices in Asia… David Hamilton is getting his up or down vote [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Henry White has resigned as the executive director of the American Bar Association. R. Thomas Howell, the organization’s general counsel, has stepped in as interim executive direction. In the mean time, a search committee has been appointed to find a permanent replacement for White. The ABA is the world’s largest voluntary membership professional organization, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 2, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Greg L. Berk joins Orange County, California’s Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger as a partner, to chair the new Immigration Practice Group. He joins from Atkinson Andelson in Irvine. Berk is a past Chair of the Orange County Bar Association Immigration Section, and currently serves on their Lawyer [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
With two recent attorney suicides, and one from December just now announced, all probably spurred to the economic downturn, the American Bar Association is making available free information about legal industry suicides. What Lawyers Need to Know About Suicide During a Recession: Prevention, Identity and Law Firm Responsibility is a free MP3 audio download available here. From [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The American Bar Association estimates that at least 3,500 attorneys and staff lost their jobs in March 2009. In February, the group estimates 2,000 jobs were lost, with 1,500 on the street in January. Firms that did not report solid layoff numbers were not included in the tally. In just the last week, JDJournal estimated the loss of [...]
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