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How Much Will 'Best Law Firms for Women' List Influence Attorneys?
Female law students entering the recruiting season have another weapon for their interviewing arsenal: a list of the 50 U.S. firms deemed most woman-friendly. The survey by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers covers benefits and compensation; parental leave and policies; child care; workforce profile; flexibility; and retention and advancement. Some women in the profession, however, question how much of an impact the list might have on a newly minted attorney's employment decisions.
Judge Gives Initial Nod to $350 Million Pact in Class Action Against United Healthcare
A New York federal judge has granted preliminary approval to a $350 million settlement of a class action alleging United Healthcare shortchanged 21 million patients and doctors on reimbursements for medical claims. Plaintiffs lawyers would get up to 25 percent of the settlement in fees. The chief question following the judge's approval is whether the settlement will lead toward a resolution of similar class actions in New Jersey against Aetna Health and Cigna Insurance.G-8's climate demands irk emerging economies
By pressing developing countries to do more to combat global warming, the Group of Eight has set the stage for a broader showdown pitting most of the world's biggest economies against poorer-but-faster-growing ones. The G-8 on Tuesday conditioned a promise to reduce greenhouse gas pollution at least 50 percent by 2050 on China, India and other emerging economies taking part in a "global response.Supreme Court Adds 12 Cases to Docket, Including a Second Amendment Sequel
The Supreme Court on Wednesday waded back into the contentious debate over the Second Amendment, agreeing to hear a Chicago case that will answer a question it left unanswered last year: whether the individual right to bear arms applies against state and local gun restrictions as well as federal. The case -- one of 12 new matters the justices added to their docket -- could also intensify a debate within the Court and academia about the best way to apply or incorporate rights embodied in the U.S. Constitution to states.Supreme Court Ponders Religion's Place
The U.S. Supreme Court convenes in a closed conference today to consider more than 1,900 new cases. Leading the list of cases that might be granted review are several First Amendment establishment clause disputes involving prison inmates' religious rights and Ten Commandments displays on public property. The Ten Commandments cases have been grabbing the headlines, but it's the Virginia prison rights case that may have a better chance of being granted review.Centenarian economist is hopeful about China
Zhou Youguang was a child of 6 when a revolution toppled China's last emperor in 1912. He was 43 when he says he left a Wall Street banker's job to help Mao Zedong's Communists create what he thought would be a democracy after decades of warlord rule, occupation and civil war. Now 103, he has seen China transformed from a country of 368 million being carved up by foreign powers to a nation of 1.Assessing Issues in Employment-Based Permanent Residency Applications
The employment-based permanent residency process (the "green card" process) is complex, with plenty of traps for the unwary. Before jumping into a case, lawyers should ask themselves -- and their clients -- these important questions.Travelling Man: High-Profile Litigator Switches Firms Again
SAN FRANCISCO - About three years after attorney Gerald Dodson made his home at Goodwin Procter, the high-profile IP litigator is on the move again.
Am Law Daily Q&A: Peter Afrasiabi
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