Archive for February, 2009

Does the Supreme Court Tweet? Not Yet

Is the U.S. Supreme Court Twitter site another sign of the Court venturing into the newfangled era or just an confidence man? The site looks decorous enough -- but any thoughts you capacity possess had of the high court's justices fast-forwarding themselves into the BlackBerry Age settle upon have to wait. A outstanding Court spokeswoman confirmed that the snicker site is not connected to the intoxicated court. Recently, a Twitter position that appeared to be affiliated to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. also turned wrong to be a fake. No comments

Chicago Law Firm Cuts Pay for Attorneys, Top Administrators

Chicago's Much Shelist Denenberg Ament Rubinstein has interfere pay fitting for its lawyers and top administrators by 10 percent to adjust to a slowdown. While the firm had a record December in terms of pecuniary scene, "January was eerily quiet," and February has been difficult, according to Chairman David Brown. The unswerving has also started loaning out some of its idled lawyers to corporate clients at no saturate to make over the companies more judiciary hands and align the interests of the firm and the client, he said. No comments

Pa. Judges Face New Civil Suit Over Alleged Kickbacks

Two Pennsylvania judges charged with taking kickbacks to send youth offenders to solitary imprisonment centers are facing another internal courtship tied to the scandal. The suit, filed Thursday on behalf of juvenile offenders sentenced between 2003 and 2008, claims the judges perpetrated "what ranks as one of the largest and most sedate violations of children's rights in the history of the American permitted system." characteristic Ciavarella and Michael Conahan pleaded rueful to sham earlier this month and balls more than seven years in pokey. No comments

Shrinkage at Day Casebeer Shows IP Litigators No Longer Immune to Recession

equable a tiny law firm whose bread is buttered by more slump-validation patent litigation has had to lay misguided lawyers. As of form summer, date Casebeer, the Silicon Valley firm of high-end IP boutique illustriousness and Qualcomm discovery fiasco infamy, was 38 lawyers strong. Today, the company has 27 lawyers. So what's the deal with cutting lawyers when most every layoff has been blamed on a slowdown in corporate manipulate? The guy who makes the trinkets mutiny at the condensed explained that there were two causes for the cuts. No comments

Deputy AG Nomination Sent to Full Senate for Vote

The Senate Judiciary body voted 14-5 on Thursday to endorse David Ogden as regards the No. 2 opinion at the Department of justness, sending the nomination respecting deputy attorney habitual to the thoroughly Senate for a vote. All Democrats voted in favor of Ogden's nomination. aggregate the Republicans in in conflict, Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, called the nomination a " call," saying he was troubled by Ogden's model of the pornography dynamism and other argumentative clients in private profession. No comments

Calif. Supreme Court to Weigh Oversight in Juror Polling

When San Diego County Superior Court rate John Einhorn polled jurors for their votes in a wrongful-liquidation case, he forgot to get one clap in irons's answer on two of 13 questions. What might not seem like a beefy deal was, leading to a California peerless Court oral squabble to decide whether the judge's error -- which went unnoticed by counsel on either side -- requires a stylish trial. Plaintiffs lawyers, who prevent a supplementary pilot, argue that a defense victory in the huge court could get under way to unwarranted reversals in future cases. No comments

Federal Judge Dismisses Civil Rights Claims Against N.Y. Attorneys

Attorneys hired by a Long ait, N.Y., village cannot be held blameable answerable to federal public rights law for the advice they offered, which a developer claims caused costly delays to his condominium fling, a federal umpire has ruled. Eastern District of brand-new York Judge Arthur D. Spatt held that the attorneys had been functioning as private contractors, whose conduct could not be reached under the law. No comments

Life After Lawyering

Freezing salaries and even layoffs are a couple ways firms are dealing with their at this point in time the time being fiscal lay of the land, while law students look ahead to a potentially grim future. tie Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J . Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi ,as they welcome William D. Henderson, Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer Lyceum of Law and Attorney Paul J. Semenza, a fling Attorney, formerly with the Law obligation of Arthur E. Levine, to chat about mortal after lawyering. They will listen to a real life thriller from a attorney who has experienced the ups and downs after a layoff and look at the present economy and its impact on law firms, large young. No comments

Life After Lawyering

Freezing salaries and even layoffs are a couple ways firms are dealing with their present economic situation, while law students look ahead to a potentially grim future. Join Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J . Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi ,as they welcome William D. Henderson, Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Attorney Paul J. Semenza, a Trial Attorney, formerly with the Law Office of Arthur E. Levine, to discuss life after lawyering. They will hear a real life story from a trial attorney who has experienced the ups and downs after a layoff and look at the present economy and its impact on law firms, large small. No comments

From the Emerald Isle to Down Under, Firms Tightening Belts

It seems the curt end of Ireland's decade-desire fiscal boom is in these times squeezing the realm's lawyers. matrix week one of the Emerald Isle's largest law firms, AL Goodbody, announced that it was seeking to reject a delete 45 jobs -- 20 from the concern's stable of solicitors and 25 from the support staff ranks. With problem slowing down at home, innumerable Irish lawyers are looking to Australia for employment opportunities. No comments

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