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- Email Spat Erupts Between Foley and GrayRobinson Over Pitch to Partners
- Up to 12 Chadbourne Lawyers Expected to Follow Energy Partners in Akin Gump Move
- N.J. State Bar Again Seeks to Abridge Legal Malpractice Limitations Period
- Tips to Beat Summer Procrastination
- Am Law 100 Firms Flocking to Hong Kong
- Allen & Overy Freezes Associate Salary Rates
- Can Law Firm Partners Spare 20 Hours of Billables?
- La Verne Law School on the Brink of Losing ABA Provisional Accreditation
- O'Melveny Loses 7 N.Y. Partners to Paul Weiss, 2 to Weil Gotshal
- New Boutiques Flourishing With Help From Patent Trolls
- Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm?
- Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm?
| Email Spat Erupts Between Foley and GrayRobinson Over Pitch to Partners | Top |
| When Foley & Lardner pitched 20 GrayRobinson partners, GrayRobinson president Byrd "Biff" Marshall fired back with a sarcastic e-mail "mostly in fun." Foley's public affairs director's response? "Biff: we've never met but you seem to be an ass who is extremely fond of himself. All the best, Mike Harrell." | |
| Up to 12 Chadbourne Lawyers Expected to Follow Energy Partners in Akin Gump Move | Top |
| Up to 12 Chadbourne & Parke lawyers will likely follow renewable energy partners Edward Zaelke and Adam Umanoff's move this week, along with two other partners, to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's Los Angeles office. Zaelke and Umanoff will co-chair Akin's global project finance practice. | |
| N.J. State Bar Again Seeks to Abridge Legal Malpractice Limitations Period | Top |
| A New Jersey State Bar-backed bill in the Legislature would reduce the statute of limitations period in malpractice actions against licensed professionals, including attorneys, from six years to two years. The bill also seeks to eliminate fee shifting in malpractice cases. | |
| Tips to Beat Summer Procrastination | Top |
| If the summer procrastination bug has invaded your law firm, consultant Neen James has some simple strategies to help you out. Among the tips: If you are procrastinating, don't beat yourself up over it, and dedicate just 15 minutes to the task you are avoiding to kick-start your productivity. | |
| Am Law 100 Firms Flocking to Hong Kong | Top |
| Forty-six of the law firms ranked in this year's Am Law 100 have an office in Hong Kong, making it the No. 1 destination for expansion in Asia by U.S. firms. As an overseas location for Am Law 100 firms, Hong Kong is second only to London, which hosts 75 of them. | |
| Allen & Overy Freezes Associate Salary Rates | Top |
| Allen & Overy has opted not to increase its associate pay levels for the 2011-12 financial year. The firm said that the decision was based on a "flat trading year" in the U.K. market in 2010-11. Under the unchanged salary levels, associate salaries will range from 61,000 pounds to 94,000 pounds. | |
| Can Law Firm Partners Spare 20 Hours of Billables? | Top |
| Funding for the Legal Services Corp. has been secured for this budgetary year, but it will certainly be targeted again. Aric Press, ALM's editor in chief, asks if it's time for law firm partners to provide more concerted aid to the LSC and other worthy programs -- in tithes equivalent to 20 billable hours per person. | |
| La Verne Law School on the Brink of Losing ABA Provisional Accreditation | Top |
| The University of La Verne College of Law could lose its provisional accreditation from the ABA, based on notice from the ABA's accreditation committee. Law school administrators have not yet been told why, but it likely has to do with the school's bar passage rate, said Dean Allen Easley. | |
| O'Melveny Loses 7 N.Y. Partners to Paul Weiss, 2 to Weil Gotshal | Top |
| Seven O'Melveny partners, including the co-chair of its corporate finance/capital markets practice and its tax practice head, will be joining Paul Weiss. Top private equity adviser Harvey Eisenberg and M&A partner Douglas Ryder are leaving O'Melveny for Weil. | |
| New Boutiques Flourishing With Help From Patent Trolls | Top |
| Newly opened small IP litigation boutiques are finding a niche in a legal marketplace flooded with patent infringement suits brought by nonpracticing entities, more commonly known as patent trolls. A few firms both represent NPEs and defend against NPE lawsuits, but most firms pick a side. | |
| Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm? | Top |
| After 15 years at a litigation boutique, I need to move on. Do I go in-house or move to another firm? And any networking advice? | |
| Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm? | Top |
| I am a lawyer currently working for a Big 4 accounting firm, and I'd like to transition to a law firm and practice tax law. Is it true this is a difficult move? Any advice on making the transition easier? | |
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