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...Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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 effort to ramp up enforcement. According to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, “There is no excuse for the disregard of federal labor standards — [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
The prosecutor in Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pending impeachment trial in the state Senate said today he will call more than a dozen witnesses. Blagojevich, however, did not respond to a discovery deadline seeking witnesses, documents and other materials that would be used in his defense, the Chicago Tribune reported. The impeachment trial is scheduled to begin [...]
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...Thursday, December 18, 2008
Baker & Daniels LLP last week cut 10 jobs from its Fort Wayne, Indiana office, leaving 52 lawyers and 46 support staff. Managing Partner Tom Froehle said no lawyers were fired in Fort Wayne or in Indianapolis, where 12 jobs were eliminated. “The positions eliminated were focused around administrative and facilities staff. Advancements in information technology have changed [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn has added 10 people to its staff. Nine of them will work out of the law firm’s downtown offices. The tenth, who apparently did someting to piss off the partners, will work out of the Kalamazoo office. Honigman employs 230 attorneys and has offices in Detroit, Lansing, Oakland County, Ann Arbor and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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JDJournal’s A. Harrison Barnes just emailed me: I just spoke with a candidate from the China office of a large US firm, and was told that “corporate practices are VERY slow in Hong Kong and Shanghai, despite what you are reading on blogs. Firms are slow and laying capital markets associates [...]
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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