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April 11, 2011 |

What Firms Can Learn From Dickinson's Lateral Hiring Approach

While helping Detroit-based Dickinson Wright with a search for laterals, consultant Laurence R. Latourette was impressed by the firm's hiring structure and follow through. He discusses some lateral hiring pointers that other firms can pick up from Dickinson's approach.
8 minute read
October 01, 2009 |

National Rankings: Season of Uncertainty

23 minute read
November 01, 2006 |

Yahoo 2.0

As Yahoo�s first IP guru, Joseph Siino weaves intellectual assets into the company�s corporate fabric.
10 minute read
September 30, 2009 |

Survey Shows Summertime Blues for Summer Associates

It's hardly a surprise that being a summer clerk this year wasn't exactly the full five-star experience the summer class of 2009 may have dreamed about in law school. One indication of what a summer intern called "a scary time to be a law student": The number of summer clerks who said they expected to receive full-time job offers was down sharply, according to this year's survey of summer associates. But the 2009 summer experience wasn't all darkness and despair.
8 minute read
November 15, 2005 |

EDD Training: A Growth Industry

The training opportunities for lawyers and legal personnel faced with completing e-discovery tasks will increase exponentially in the next year or so, experts agree -- before the EDD-related amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are finalized and busy lawyers are forced to comply with them. But where will they turn for help -- to in-house IT people? Vendors? Specialized law firms? CLE programs? All of the above?
9 minute read
October 09, 2009 |

Hogan & Hartson Looks to Further Global Reach

J. Warren Gorrell Jr. heads the merger-averse firm, which now is in talks with London-based Lovells.
5 minute read
July 24, 2000 |

Interest Groups Struggling to Find Lawyers

Three years ago, Ramon Arias had his pick of lawyers for jobs at the San Francisco Legal Assistance Foundation. Times have changed. Astronomical housing prices, competition with higher-paying private firms and the cost of student loans have combined to make public interest jobs a tough sell in the Bay Area. In a two-part series, law.com looks at lawyer flight from public interest law.
4 minute read
December 09, 2005 |

Winning Pay Hikes For Low Wage Workers

In what surely will advance the cause of lawyers engaged in a state-by-state "living wage" campaign on behalf of the working poor, a freshly retired Manhattan litigator and a young activist with the Brennan Center for Social Justice scored a victory last week in a sweeping decision from the New Mexico Court of Appeals that upheld Santa Fe's right to set local minimum hourly pay at $8.50 for virtually all workers in both the public and private sectors.
5 minute read
May 04, 2005 |

Dirty Companies For Sale

In the past year, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have brought U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act actions against (or settled with) six companies. And suspicions of corruption in an acquisition target killed a $2 billion deal in 2004 and delayed two others on the order of $1 billion. Why? Experts suggest the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and a little-known international anti-bribery convention have turned corporate corruption into a deal-breaker.
5 minute read
September 28, 2010 |

Obama's Ex-Counsel Reveals White House Tensions

The possible departure of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel could shore up the standing of another prominent member of the Obama administration, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. That's according to Gregory Craig, who served as counsel to President Barack Obama until January. Craig had a contentious working relationship with Emanuel on issues of national security, as has Holder. And Craig's views on the subject -- picked up by a live microphone at a recent speech -- weren't meant to be public.
4 minute read

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