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Terminated Associate Discloses NDA

In the Internet Age, everyone lives in a fishbowl -- and law firms are no exception. It used to be that terminated or otherwise aggrieved associates would slip gently into the night, fearing that a highly publicized lawsuit or outcry against the firm could kill their careers. These days, however, associates realize that firms suffer adverse publicity when word of a termination hits popular law blogs (just ask Paul Hastings), and that they can use the threat of disclosure as leverage to negotiate better terms of departure. What's a law firm to do?

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How to Commit Career Suicide

The National Law Journal

Most new lawyers have a touch of the "imposter syndrome," the sense that they aren't competent to serve as professionals and the fear that they will make a serious mistake, which will end their careers. But while junior lawyers are not likely to commit any mistakes so large that their careers will lie in ruins, a healthy sense of caution is appropriate. Jones Day partner Steven Bennett offers a guide to some of the worst mistakes and suggestions for how to avoid these potential pitfalls of practice.
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Jackson Lewis Opens an Office in Jacksonville, Fla.

The National Law Journal

Jackson Lewis, a national workplace law firm based in White Plains, N.Y., has opened a new office in Jacksonville, Fla. -- the growing firm's third Florida office. The Jacksonville office is staffed with partners Richard Margulies and Benjamin Sharkey, who formerly worked at Akerman Senterfitt. Jackson Lewis last week opened an office in Portsmouth, N.H., and now has 470 attorneys in 36 cities.
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In-House Counsel Says Success Is Mix of Practice, Preparation

Fulton County Daily Report

After working for law firms in Boston and Atlanta, Lori Shapiro took an in-house job with Employment Learning Innovations, a workplace training company. In her role as GC for seven years, she taught some of the company's offerings for business people. The trick to public speaking, she said, is preparation combined with practice. Shapiro, now an in-house counsel for Graphic Packaging International, gets plenty of practice speaking as the 2008 president of the Association of Corporate Counsel Georgia chapter.
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Judge Pay Hike May Be Running Out of Steam

Legal Times

Hope is dimming that Congress will pass a pay hike for federal judges this year -- despite some early legislative successes and behind-the-scenes lobbying by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. A 29 percent salary increase passed both the House and Senate Judiciary committees with the backing of civic groups and editorial writers nationwide. But then political and budget distractions slowed the momentum. Its fate may now be decided in the mad scramble of a post-election session of Congress at the end of 2008.
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Law Firm News

McKenna Long Beefs Up Its Tax Practice

Fulton County Daily Report

As exotic new practices such as climate change and subprime sprout up at some firms, McKenna Long & Aldridge is expanding good old-fashioned tax law into a stand-alone group. "Tax is always in vogue," says Wayne Bradley, who co-chairs the corporate group. The firm has recruited three new tax partners and two associates and is on the lookout for more, he says. The tax group is based in Atlanta, but Bradley says the firm is also recruiting in Washington, where its lobbying practice handles tax policy work.
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New Social Networking Site a Facebook for Lawyers

The American Lawyer

Allen & Overy didn't like the idea of its associates using valuable bandwidth -- mental and electronic -- to play Scrabulous or "poke" their friends on Facebook. So the firm invested in Legal OnRamp, a social networking site specifically for lawyers, not lonely hearts and emo bands.
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Lists & Rankings

Want to see more charts and rankings in the legal industry? You can check out the latest Am Law 100, Am Law 200, and the A-List Rankings!

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