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- Former Ropes Partner Sues Firm Claiming Age, Sex Discrimination
- Federal Circuit: Cross-appeal by Apotex an 'egregious' attempt to 'game the system'
- Lawyer, Firm File Suit Over "False Review"
- EEOC Issues Long-Awaited, Final Disability Regulations To Implement 2008 ADAA
- Judge Rejects Stay of Cases Opted Out of 9/11 Settlement
- Taking an objective measure of firms that promote women
- Celebrated 'Appropriation Artist' Richard Prince Calls on Boies Schiller to Appeal Devastating Infringement Ruling
- Alleged Attorney Conduct Prompts Court to Vacate Settlement With School District Over Bullying
- Bernstein Is Back! In Latest RiskMetrics Ranking of Plaintiffs Firms, Bernstein Litowitz Regains Top Slot for Total Settlement Value, Racking Up Nearly $1 Billion in 2010
- Ex-Spouse Who Let Joint Assets Slip Must Pay Own Lawyer's Fee
- Before foreclosure was complete, Lauderhill couple say Chase locked them out of their house
- American Convicted in Hong Kong 'Milkshake Murder'
- How's the Lateral Market? Q&A With a Recruiter
- 'Fairness,' Balance and Opinionated News
| Former Ropes Partner Sues Firm Claiming Age, Sex Discrimination | Top |
| A former Ropes & Gray partner has filed a discrimination suit, claiming the firm undermined her by reassigning her clients to younger, male partners before firing her in retaliation for her complaints to firm leadership. | |
| Federal Circuit: Cross-appeal by Apotex an 'egregious' attempt to 'game the system' | Top |
| A generic pharmaceutical company's move to preserve litigation options in case an appellate court reversed its lower court win on one set of grounds was "particularly egregious," the Federal Circuit has ruled. | |
| Lawyer, Firm File Suit Over "False Review" | Top |
| Lawyer Michael W. Weston and his firm have filed a $1.25 million defamation suit alleging a "false review" posted on Citysearch.com has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost business. | |
| EEOC Issues Long-Awaited, Final Disability Regulations To Implement 2008 ADAA | Top |
| The business and disability rights communities are uniting behind final regulations implementing the 2008 Americans With Disabilities Amendments Act -- a dramatic change from strong criticism of a first attempt in 2009. | |
| Judge Rejects Stay of Cases Opted Out of 9/11 Settlement | Top |
| A judge has rejected arguments by attorneys in the 9/11 respiratory litigation that pretrial practice should be stayed in 85 cases that opted out of a 2010 settlement with New York City and its contractors until more clarity is obtained about benefits under a recently passed federal act. | |
| Taking an objective measure of firms that promote women | Top |
| A new effort is under way to objectively identify law firms of 100 or more attorneys that have a substantial number of women equity partners, women in leadership roles and women bringing in top compensation. | |
| Celebrated 'Appropriation Artist' Richard Prince Calls on Boies Schiller to Appeal Devastating Infringement Ruling | Top |
| The appeal of an infringement ruling against celebrity artist Richard Prince will explore the nature of fair use for an artist whose work involves the manipulation of images created by someone else. | |
| Alleged Attorney Conduct Prompts Court to Vacate Settlement With School District Over Bullying | Top |
| A judge has vacated a settlement of allegations that a school district failed to curb bullying after he received affidavits from plaintiffs who claimed they had accepted the deal only after their former attorney "intimidated" them. | |
| Bernstein Is Back! In Latest RiskMetrics Ranking of Plaintiffs Firms, Bernstein Litowitz Regains Top Slot for Total Settlement Value, Racking Up Nearly $1 Billion in 2010 | Top |
| A new report shows Bernstein Litowitz ranking first among plaintiffs firms for total settlement value in 2010, with 16 settlements totaling $999.9 million -- an increase of more than $200 million from the prior year. | |
| Ex-Spouse Who Let Joint Assets Slip Must Pay Own Lawyer's Fee | Top |
| A man who "methodically" dissipated the assets from his 30-year marriage cannot use the proceeds from the sale of the marital house to pay his divorce lawyer's fees, a New York judge has ruled. | |
| Before foreclosure was complete, Lauderhill couple say Chase locked them out of their house | Top |
| As delinquent homeowners report being kept out of houses they still own, attorneys say lenders and firms they hire to do inspections and change locks are trespassing and abusing the system by claiming the properties have been abandoned. | |
| American Convicted in Hong Kong 'Milkshake Murder' | Top |
| An American who drugged her investment banker-husband with a milkshake and bludgeoned him to death more than seven years ago was convicted of murder Friday at her second trial in a case that grabbed world attention with lurid details on the breakdown of a wealthy expatriate marriage in Hong Kong.Visit International News | |
| How's the Lateral Market? Q&A With a Recruiter | Top |
| Law firms are hiring laterals again after the slowdown caused by the recession, says Southern California legal recruiter Sabina Lippman, and she has some good news about the trend in compensation. Lippman has opened her own recruiting firm after 10 years at Watanabe Nason Schwartz & Lippman.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views | |
| 'Fairness,' Balance and Opinionated News | Top |
| Katherine A. Helm and Joel Cohen examine the increasingly prevalent mix of superheated rhetoric and partisan commentary, and conclude that the remedy for undesirable speech is always more speech. | |
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