Now that law firm layoffs are accelerating (hitting a total of 6,600 since January 2008), everyone’s talking about the need for big change. In the past few months, even Cravath, Swaine & Moore head partner Evan Chesler has taken up…
Source: Carolyn Elefant
These days, a lawsuit by a former associate for discrimination or wrongful discharge against law firm no longer carries the same stigma it once did. Such stories seem to be increasingly common, like the suit by a black staff attorney…
Source: Carolyn Elefant
There’s an interesting article in Chicago Lawyer describing the many ways that lawyers are using Web 2.0 applications and social media.For example, Tom Skallas, a 35-year-old partner at Holland & Knight, uses both LinkedIn and Facebook to network with individuals….
Source: Carolyn Elefant
Back in October, I posted about how Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, the law firm selected in a competitive solicitation to advise the Treasury Department on the $700 billion bailout plan after four of six firms declined to participate, had capped…
Source: Carolyn Elefant
“Anything you say can and will be used against you.” The Miranda warning is familiar to anyone who has ever watched a TV crime drama. But a variation of the warning is now being recited in a much-different context –…
Source: Robert J. Ambrogi
Since 1994, Randy Cassingham has published offbeat news stories at his Web site This is True. When a reader suggested he would go to hell because of one of the stories he wrote, he came up with the Get Out…
Source: Robert J. Ambrogi
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Wyeth v. Levine is a “sea shift,” Philadelphia plaintiffs’ lawyer Sol Weiss tells National Law Journal reporter Marcia Coyle. “Pre-emption as a defense is going to be much more difficult without express written language in…
Source: Robert J. Ambrogi
When Facebook settled ConnectU’s lawsuit alleging it stole the idea for the popular social-networking site, its lawyers wanted nothing more than to keep the terms secret. As it turned out, they might as well have blasted it on a billboard…
Source: Robert J. Ambrogi
What do pornography and judicial ethics violations have in common? Both have been evaluated under the infamous “I know it when I see it” standard, formulated by former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in Jacobellis v. Ohio, in which the…
Source: Carolyn Elefant
Forget the self-help books with their empty optimism and recycled advice, and those hefty legal primers on substantive skills or trial practice. Lawyers — still employed or not — might be better off taking a page (or even a quote)…
Source: Carolyn Elefant
