Today The National Law Journal published its annual rankings of top law schools throughout the United States. The National Law Journal bases its rankings on which schools sent the highest percentage of graduates to first-year jobs at the largest firms in the country. No other factors were taken into account in formulating these rankings. Northwestern [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has hired four law clerks, two of whom have already clerked for other justices. Robert Yablon formerly clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. His JD is from Yale Law. Lindsey Powell formerly clerked for John Paul Stevens. Her JD is from Stanford Law. Jeremy Marwell clerked for DC Circuit Judge Stephen Williams. His JD [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Scott Martin joins Greenberg Traurig in New York City as a shareholder in the Antitrust Litigation Practice, from Weil Gotshal where he served as a partner. He focuses his practice in the areas of antitrust and complex commercial litigation. Martin earned his JD from Stanford Law School. Former [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Virtual Law Partners, which hired five new partners four weeks ago, has this week brought on four new partners for its commercial lending and intellectual property practices. David Lawson joins from Troutman Sanders, where he was a partner, to chair Virtual Law’s commercial lending practice. He earned his JD from the University of Southern California Law [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 20, 2009
The new UC Irvine School of Law, which opens this fall, has hired seven new faculty members, bringing its total number of tenure-track professors to 22. Mario Barnes joins from the University of Miami School of Law. He teaches criminal law, constitutional law, national security law, and race and the law. Alejandro Camacho, from the University of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Mayer Brown has brought on two attorneys for its Global Projects Group. Robert H. Edwards, Jr. joins from Hunton & Williams as a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office. He handles project finance and development, with particular strength in projects and policy issues related to renewable energy, climate change, the development and financing [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The US News & World Report rankings for top US law schools will not be officially published until tomorrow — but the rankings are all over the blawgosphere anyway. The top 20 are: 1. Yale Law School 2. Harvard Law School 3. Stanford Law School 4. Columbia Law School 5. New York University School of Law 6. University of California Berkeley School of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of criminologist Joan Petersilia as Professor of Law. Petersilia has spent more than 25 years studying the performance of U.S. criminal justice agencies and has been instrumental in affecting prison and parole reform in California and throughout the U.S. Petersilia currently serves as Professor of Criminology, Law and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Stanford Law School has launched the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, which will focus on professional responsibility, leadership development and quality of life issues. Stanford law professor Deborah L. Rhode will serve as its director. She is the founder and former director of the school’s Center on Ethics. The Center of the Legal Profession will work [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
Lawyers ramping up to try to recover client’s investment cash squandered by indicted New York investor Bernard Madoff aren’t expecting to get back very much. “There are going to be claims, but it’s not going to be billion-dollar litigation,” says Columbia Law professor John C. Coffee. “This is medium-sized litigation that will probably go to relatively small [...]
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