Paul Hastings has hired a team of three IP attorneys from Skadden. Jeff Randall joins Paul Hastings’ Palo Alto and Washington DC offices, as co-chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice. He represents companies in multi-billion-dollar intellectual property cases. He earned his JD from the University of California Hastings College of Law. Allan Soobert joins in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 1, 2009
California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting almost all state funding for the Hastings College of the Law, California’s oldest law school. The proposed $10.3 million cut would eliminate one-quarter of the school’s academic budget. The school says it cannot make any further faculty cuts, and could not accommodate more students. Existing students would have to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Project for Attorney Retention says reducing associate working hours will save a firm more money than cutting associate positions. PAR is an initiative of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and advocates for reduced hours as a way for law firms to retain [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 25, 2009
California law firm Nossaman LLP announced that former California Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman has joined the firm as a partner in Orange County. “Dick Ackerman’s decades of experience in the legislature and as a corporate attorney combined with his creative entrepreneurial approach make him a great fit for Nossaman,” said Orange County partner John Erskine. Ackerman [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
According to a report released by the San Francisco-based Project for Attorney Retention, which surveyed 100 American law firms, only 23 of those firms had partnership classes consisting of at least 40% women in 2008. Fourteen of the 100 firms did not include any women. The survey included 100 law firms, which were chosen based on prior [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, is suggesting to struggling law firms that they cut associate hours rather than laying off lawyers completely. “I think if firms aren’t thinking about such a program, they really should,” consultant Charles Santangelo told [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 24, 2008
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, a top tier law school in San Francisco, is forgoing some raises and scaling back on hiring, and has asked department heads to cut five percent from their current operating budgets. Last fiscal year, the school received $10 million from the State of California — just over a quarter [...]
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