Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, March 11, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… The Robert Half Legal Hiring Index reports that employment prospects are improving for the legal industry in the second quarter… Arnold & Porter adds three from Arent Fox… The National Jurist reports that the number of law school faculty has increased [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 4, 2009
Half a dozen incoming associates to the Katten Muchin Rosenman law firm have reason to celebrate. On Friday, the law firm sent out a statement rescinding their March decision to hold off starting dates for six of their incoming associates. Initially, the associates were to start on February 1, 2010. However, due to what the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Chicago’s Pugh, Jones, Johnson & Quandt and Newark’s McCarter & English are forming an alliance. While remaining separate and independent law firms, they will recommend and provide coordinated legal services to their respective clients, including complex litigation, corporate transactions, municipal finance, commercial real estate, employment matters, and property tax appeals. Pugh, Jones, Johnson & Quandt, one of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The private firm hired by the city of Tulsa will remain the representative of the city in Oklahoma. The city of Tulsa has sued Tulsa County over a new jail agreement. The county filed a motion to have the law firm, Norman, Wohlgemuth, Chandler, and Dowdell removed from the case because it is also currently [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Lawyers now seek a piece of the multi-billion dollar a year interactive media and video game industry. In a growing trend, intellectual property law firms have begun to expand their expertise to cash in on the growing number of video game developers, publishers, and other interactive media clients. One innovative example includes Stubbs Alderton & Markiles [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Several lawyers from the high-profile firm, Dreier LLP, have recently departed from the firm, finding jobs elsewhere. Lawyer to high profile basketball player Tony Parker, Stanton “Larry” Stein recently announced that he would be transferring to the Liner Yankelevits firm. Other high profile clients for Stein include X-Files star David Duchovny. Along with Stein went his former [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The transitioning bipartisan firm, BGR Group, with a history of powerful Republican clients, partied into the late hours Tuesday during the Obama inauguration. The BGR Group hosted a Blue Ball for over 200 invited guests at its new Homer Building office in Washington, DC. The firm patriotically primped its office floor with star lights projected on [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
He goes by the username “Minerva,” after the Greek goddess of wisdom. He rose from anonymity in South Korea, for accurately predicting the current economic crisis. He even predicted the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Now, the 31 year old Park Dae-Sung, is charged with going too far in an online discussion. He stated that the government [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a decade old case on Thursday, relieving the Dorsey & Whitney law firm from the threat of $4 million in malpractice suits. In 1999, an investment bank in Minneapolis, called Miller & Schroeder, which is now non-operational, packaged about $12 million in bonds, selling them to over [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
Atlanta-based labor law firm Fisher & Phillips has elected Charlotte attorney James Michael Honeycutt to the partnership. Honeycutt’s focuses his practice on labor & employment law on behalf of employers, including employment litigation defense, traditional labor law matters, and counseling clients on a wide range of personnel issues. Honeycutt earned his JD, magna cum laude, from Michigan [...]
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