Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, February 24, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories… Curtis Mallet reports an increase in profits and revenues in 2009… Revenue is down and profits are up at Patton Boggs… Arnold & Porter report that revenue and profits increase… Honolulu law firms are the target of an email scam… Revenue and profits fall [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Attorney General Martha Coakley of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit in July of 2009 challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. The state argues that the law forces Massachusetts, the first in the country to legalize gay marriage, to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples. Coakley filed papers in US District Court on Thursday asking a judge [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education has approved a plan to open the first public law school in the state. The school is set to enroll students for the fall semester. UMass Dartmouth will acquire the private Southern New England School of Law, which is donating its campus and assets to the state. The new [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Former Attorney General of Massachusetts Thomas F. Reilly opposes a plan by the University of Massachusetts to open a law school. UMass wants to open a school without funding from taxpayer dollars by relying on mandatory student fees. Up to 87% of a prospective law student’s bill would be listed as “mandatory fees”. Reilly believes [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 1, 2009
It seemed like a match made in heaven – thanks to a struggling economy, Massachusetts was unable to fill all of the judicial clerkships for the year, and there is a growing number of deferred associates in Massachusetts being paid a stipend but with no work to do. Why not pair them up? [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
A co-founder and a partner at Boston’s Bromberg & Sunstein have left over the firm’s decision not to merge with a larger firm. Co-founder Lee C. Bromberg and partner Erik P. Belt resigned from the firm this week; they were the only two of 18 partners to vote for joining and unnamed, larger firm. Bromberg is one [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Most students receiving financial aid from Harvard Law School are required to work for 10 weeks over the summer, the traditional length of a major law firm summer program. But this year, many students have seen their summer jobs reduced, or cut entirely, by law firms. Initially, the school said these students would still need to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Committee on Judicial Ethics has signed off on a proposal that would allow deferred law-firm associates to work for the Trial Court as “volunteer interns,” while on the payroll of their firms. The CJE concluded that Trial Court judges could maintain their impartiality by using a double blind system to select [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Foley & Lardner has brought on three intellectual property lawyers for its Boston office. Matthew B. Lowrie and Aaron W. Moore join as partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice; Robert J. Silverman joins as senior counsel. Lowrie was a founding partner of Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, where Moore and Silverman were also partners. Foley & Lardner’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
The Massachusetts Superior Court has informed 25 3Ls they will not be hired after all as court clerks. It appears that the decision to rescind the job offers was made last Fall, when the courts instituted a hiring freeze; but those affected are only being informed now. The court says the hirings were always contingent on funding, [...]
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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