Over five years, London firms’ hiring of lateral partners has almost doubled, from 42 hires in 2004 to 79 in 2008. The data come from a Legal Week study tracking hiring at 33 US and UK firms’ London offices. Orrick, Weil Gotshal, Arnold & Porter, Cleary Gottlieb, Cravath, and Skadden all brought on laterals. On the other hand, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday against a 2005 California law that aimed to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The court ruled that the law violates the rights of minors under the First and 14th amendments of the Constitution. The ruling upheld an earlier ruling [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Legal aid programs are hurting from a reduction in funding from Interest on Lawyer Trust Account Programs and state budget cuts, forcing layoffs and cuts in services. Legal aid groups across the country are expected to cut their staffs by 20% or more. This comes in lieu of the fact that demand for legal services is [...]
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
In the past few years, international law firms have been opening up offices in Dubai. Now, US firms, like Weil Gotshal Manges, and Kilpatrick Stockton, have announced plans to open up offices there. They join other prominent firms such as Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, DLA Piper, Linklaters, and Latham & Watkins, who all have offices [...]
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
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 [...]
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