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- Teaching the Business of Law
- Legal Watchdog Set to Scrutinize Law Firms' Outsourcing Deals
- 'Exceptional Mitigating Circumstances' Gain Lawyer Reinstatement
- New Partner Numbers Doubled at Largest Texas Firms This Year
- Commentary: Create Your Mentors
- Perkins' Outsourcing Chief Moving to Sheppard
- How's the Lateral Market? Q&A With a Recruiter
- South Fla. New Partners 2011: A Tougher Hurdle to Clear
- New Law Firm Certification Looks at Women in Leadership Roles
- 'Hundreds' of Layoffs Loom as N.Y. Judiciary Prepares to Slash Another $70 Million
- Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm?
- Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm?
| Teaching the Business of Law | Top |
| Six years ago, adjunct professor Maurice Zilber started a course entitled "The Business of the Practice of Law," teaching skills that he believes are as essential as knowledge of substantive law and professional responsibility. Have his students made use of that learning? Zilber decides to find out. | |
| Legal Watchdog Set to Scrutinize Law Firms' Outsourcing Deals | Top |
| Some British law firms may have to renegotiate their outsourcing arrangements as the Solicitors Regulation Authority moves to regulate outsourcing for the first time, asserting it should be given access to firms' outsourcing contracts and files as well as potentially to outsourcers' premises. | |
| 'Exceptional Mitigating Circumstances' Gain Lawyer Reinstatement | Top |
| A New York appeals court has reinstated an attorney who, after falling prey to drug addiction, has "turned his life around" and now counsels former drug addicts and runs a successful sandwich shop as well as a non-profit that provides job training to high school students. | |
| New Partner Numbers Doubled at Largest Texas Firms This Year | Top |
| At 23 of the largest firms in Texas, nearly twice as many partners/shareholders were named in 2011 as in 2010. None of the firms Texas Lawyer spoke with say the improved economy is the primary reason for more new partners; several firms say more lawyers were eligible this year. | |
| Commentary: Create Your Mentors | Top |
| Perkins' Outsourcing Chief Moving to Sheppard | Top |
| Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has wooed outsourcing partner Shaalu Mehra and three associates from Perkins Coie to its Palo Alto, Calif., office. Marc Sockol, the partner in charge of Sheppard's Palo Alto office, has been trying to recruit Mehra for about five years. | |
| 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. | |
| South Fla. New Partners 2011: A Tougher Hurdle to Clear | Top |
| The number of new partners named at most major law firms in South Florida fell in 2010, continuing a trend from the year before, according to the Daily Business Review's annual new partners survey. And that trend may be here to stay, say legal experts, some managing partners and recruiters. | |
| New Law Firm Certification Looks at Women in Leadership Roles | Top |
| The Women in Law Empowerment Forum plans to provide certification to law firms of 100 or more attorneys that have a substantial number of women as equity partners, in leadership roles and getting top compensation. The group's national chairwoman thinks only a "short list" of firms will qualify. | |
| 'Hundreds' of Layoffs Loom as N.Y. Judiciary Prepares to Slash Another $70 Million | Top |
| "Hundreds" of nonjudicial employees may lose their jobs due to $70 million in additional cuts imposed on New York's judiciary in a state budget to be approved this week, the chief judge said Monday. | |
| 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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