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- A Primer for Teaching Law as an Adjunct Professor
- Reed Smith Adds 14-Person E-Discovery Group From K&L Gates
- Former Boston Lawyer Sentenced to 4 Years for Mortgage Fraud
- How to Compensate Law Firm Managing Partners
- Sports Law Expert to Lead New Center at Thomas Jefferson Law School
- After 26-Year Recruiting Career, Michael Coleman Decides to Move On
- Linklaters Follows A&O With Salary Rate Freeze for Associates
- Partial Dismissal Granted in Bias Suit Against Foley & Lardner
- 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
- Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm?
- Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm?
| A Primer for Teaching Law as an Adjunct Professor | Top |
| After practicing law for several years, you may start to think about teaching a law school class. Here are some tips for pursuing and succeeding at such an endeavor, from Rachel A. Van Cleave, a professor and the associate dean for academic affairs at Golden Gate University School of Law. | |
| Reed Smith Adds 14-Person E-Discovery Group From K&L Gates | Top |
| Reed Smith has added 11 lawyers and three staffers from K&L Gates' e-discovery practice group in Pittsburgh. The group joins former K&L Gates partner David Cohen, who moved to Reed Smith earlier this month in order to create an e-discovery and records practice group for the firm. | |
| Former Boston Lawyer Sentenced to 4 Years for Mortgage Fraud | Top |
| Former Boston lawyer Quang Joseph Nguyen has been sentenced to four years in prison for orchestrating 10 fraudulent mortgage transactions. He had previously pleaded guilty to bank and wire fraud. Lenders and title insurance companies lost more than $1.8 million due to Nguyen's fraud. | |
| How to Compensate Law Firm Managing Partners | Top |
| High-quality law firm leadership cannot as easily be replaced as retained. Therefore, a firm must be prepared to reward its managing partner for his or her success in as many different ways as success is measured by a particular law firm, notes consultant Joel A. Rose. | |
| Sports Law Expert to Lead New Center at Thomas Jefferson Law School | Top |
| San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law has selected Rodney Smith, president of Southern Virginia University, as director of its new Center for Sports Law and Policy. He says the center will be the first to marry the legal aspects of sports with the industry's administrative and policy decisions. | |
| After 26-Year Recruiting Career, Michael Coleman Decides to Move On | Top |
| In the 26 years since recruiter Michael Coleman left law practice to start his search firm, the changes to the profession have been "revolutionary," he says. As Coleman readies to retire from Coleman Nourian, he discusses the rise of the lateral market and lawyer dissatisfaction. | |
| Linklaters Follows A&O With Salary Rate Freeze for Associates | Top |
| London-based Linklaters has opted not to increase its associate pay rates for the 2011-2012 financial year. The announcement makes it the second Magic Circle practice to freeze its associate salaries for the year ahead, following Allen & Overy's announcement on Thursday. | |
| Partial Dismissal Granted in Bias Suit Against Foley & Lardner | Top |
| A Michigan federal judge has dismissed eight of nine counts in a discrimination and breach of contract lawsuit filed against Foley & Lardner by a white male founding partner of the firm's Detroit office. | |
| 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. | |
| 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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