Morning News Roundup for Thursday

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!

This morning’s top stories:

Japan’s Federation of Bar Associations has shaken up the island nation’s international legal community by declaring that all foreign lawyers, regardless of position, must be formally registered to practice…

New York City’s Brooklyn Law School has announced it will freeze faculty salaries, in order to keep 2009 tuition increases down…

Crowell & Moring has added two new hires to its International Dispute Resolution Group…

Minneapolis intellectual-property law firm Merchant & Gould is cutting 33 jobs, or 13% of its work force, citing the economic meltdown…

Will judges, upset about recent pay freezes, start fleeing the bench for higher-paying law firm jobs?