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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…
December 28, 2009Read More
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…
November 19, 2009Read More
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…
November 18, 2009Read More
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…
August 2, 2009Read More
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…
May 11, 2009Read More
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…
April 1, 2009Read More
Attorneys working assignments under the federal will see their fees bumped up from $100 to $110 per hour, with funds recently appropriated by Congress. The CJA was enacted in 1964…
March 24, 2009Read More
Jeremy D. Protas, an attorney with the intellectual property law firm of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, has announced the establishment of a patent law scholarship specifically for LGBT (“lesbian,…
March 5, 2009Read More
The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates voted yesterday to amend its Model Rule of Professional Conduct governing conflicts of interest stemming from lateral hiring. At the ABA meeting in…
February 17, 2009Read More
The Boston Globe reports that the economic meltdown could have a devastating impact on the American justice system, as courts are forced to lay off employees and cut down on…
February 17, 2009Read More
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