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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Despite Gains, Gender Parity in Partnerships Is a Long Way Off
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Source=Source.concat("new_york_law_journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Nate Raymond
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("As Sullivan & Cromwell celebrates the promotion of four women among five new partners, experts warn that more work needs to be done to shrink gender disparity in partnership ranks. The proportion of women partners has increased only four points to 19.2 percent in the last decade, according to NALP. And a recently released National Association of Women Lawyers survey found that the 'vast majority' of part-time lawyers terminated by law firms in the last year were women, which the NAWL president calls a 'disturbing trend.'
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Day Pitney Makes New Round of Cuts
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Source=Source.concat("connecticut_law_tribune
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Douglas S. Malan
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Day Pitney has laid off 29 staff members across eight of the firm's nine offices stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C. In February, Day Pitney let go of 66 staff members firmwide, and in May, the firm dropped 20 lawyers.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("SJ Berwin Reacts to Tough Market Conditions With Partner Exits
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Source=Source.concat("legal_week
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Sofia Lind
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Top 20 U.K. firm SJ Berwin is asking a number of partners to leave, with both equity and non-equity partners understood to have been affected. The firm would not clarify the precise number of partners impacted by the cull, beyond saying that 'less than six' of its 170-strong partnership had been asked to go. At least three of the departing partners are understood to be in the firm's London real estate practice, but other practice areas have also been affected.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Thompson & Knight Lawyer Fashions 'Project Runway' Video Game Deal
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Source=Source.concat("texas_lawyer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Thompson & Knight partner J. Holt Foster has handled video game transactions for many years, but the high-profile deal he just negotiated for Tornado Studios stands out from the pack because it features a photo shoot instead of a shoot-'em-up. Foster helped the company ink a video game development and publishing license agreement for a game based on 'Project Runway,' a reality television show starring Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn. The game will be released in the spring of 2010 in the Nintendo Wii format.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Law School Professor Withdraws Suit Against Legal Blog
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Source=Source.concat("national_law_journal
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Karen Sloan
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("A law school professor has withdrawn a suit accusing legal blog Above the Law of publishing a 'viciously racist series of rants' after reporting his arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution. David Lat, the blog's managing editor, declined comment Thursday, but on Wednesday he wrote that there had been no settlement and that the posts Donald Marvin Jones complained about will remain on the site. Lat offered to let Jones make his case on Above the Law, but there was no word from Jones on that front as of Thursday.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("How to Survive the Big Law Fight for Work
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Source=Source.concat("fulton_county_report
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("The Snark
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("One of the side effects of lean economic times at Big Law is an increase in internal competition for work and hours, writes The Snark. In the boom times, there was more than enough work for all of Big Law's worker bees. But when the work gets slow, and everyone needs to fill their own billable-hour quotas, everyone starts scampering. The Snark addresses a couple of questions that Cogs wish they could ask, such as how to face a partner's wrath for answering a client's question while the partner was out.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Some Deferred Associates Take the Corporate Route
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Source=Source.concat("american_lawyer_magazine
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Zach Lowe
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Interviews with law firm hiring partners, legal recruiters and career-services administrators indicate that very few deferred associates have managed to land in corporate positions. Companies, for their part, haven't jumped at the chance to hire inexperienced attorneys even though those attorneys would come (mostly) free of charge. But some deferred associates have found corporate placements, and those The American Lawyer spoke with were unanimous in their praise for the in-house experience.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Experts: Lower Associate Pay Is Here to Stay
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Source=Source.concat("fulton_county_report
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Meredith Hobbs
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Fifty-five percent of participants in a recent seminar on associate compensation said they believe that associate salary cuts are temporary. But Altman Weil consultants presenting the webinar said lower salaries are here to stay and are part of a 'fundamental and profound reset' after two decades of 'steady, sometimes spectacular growth' for the profession. Associate pay did not drop enough in the recent round of big law firm cuts and should have been restored to 1998 levels, said Altman Weil's James Cotterman.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Public Defender Glides Between Courtroom and Ballet Studio
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Source=Source.concat("texas_lawyer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Miriam Rozen
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("By day, Valerie Shelton-Tabor serves as an assistant public defender in the Dallas County Public Defender's Office. By night, she's the director and co-founder of the Contemporary Ballet of Dallas. Shelton-Tabor, a mother of two, credits her successes at both careers to learning to delegate responsibilities. 'I realized I don't have to do it all myself. At the courthouse, I have investigators and administrators. At the studio, I have people I trust. I don't have to nitpick everything,' she says. 'That was huge.'
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Lunch Meetings Lead to New Job as Partner After Baby Break
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Source=Source.concat("recorder
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Petra Pasternak
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Naomi Gray was an associate at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker when she took maternity leave more than a year ago. Not ready to return to the 2,000 billable-hour grind, she resigned at the end of March. Her return to work this month, to IP litigation firm Harvey Siskind as a partner, came as the result of good contacts and lucky timing. Gray says conversations with Lawrence Siskind, name partner at the six-lawyer firm, began informally over lunch at the start of the year.
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NewsHeadlines=NewsHeadlines.concat("Greenberg Traurig Gets 5 Environmental Lawyers From Ballard Spahr
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Source=Source.concat("the_legal_intelligencer
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ByLine=ByLine.concat("Gina Passarella
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NewsAbstract=NewsAbstract.concat("Greenberg Traurig, which has been deliberate in its growth in Philadelphia, has added a five-attorney environmental group from Ballard Spahr, including David Mandelbaum, who served as partner-in-charge of Ballard Spahr's environmental practice. Mandelbaum said there was nothing negative about Ballard Spahr that spurred his move, but the opportunity to join a firm triple the size in attorney headcount, as well as join a practice that is complementary both locally and nationally, was just too good to pass up.
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