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June 28, 2012 |

Ex-Teacher Still Goes To Bat For Students

Gregory Smith, of Ridgefield, got his law degree from Boston University in 1977. But after a brief stint as a lawyer, he decided instead to go into teaching. He taught for about 30 years, spending some of that time working with special education students.
4 minute read
November 25, 2002 |

The Basics of Feedback

Practicing law is all about communication -- with clients, with other attorneys, with government agencies and the courts. Why then do lawyers find it so difficult to talk openly and informally with the associates they supervise about how to improve their performance?
9 minute read
September 05, 2006 |

Hunton & Williams Faces More Defections

Hunton & Williams, the Richmond, Va.-based firm that entered the Miami market with a splash seven years ago, may be facing an upheaval in its 20-lawyer corporate/international group. Two top Hunton lawyers left the firm Aug. 1 for Greenberg Traurig -- and three partners are expected to announce their departure for Holland & Knight this week, according to sources who did not want to be named. The managing partner of Hunton's Miami office denies that the corporate/international department is having problems.
4 minute read
August 05, 2008 |

U.S. Prosecutors Feel the Heat, Want Protection

In the wake of three murders and the recent attack on a federal prosecutor in a New York courtroom, the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys is calling for stepped-up security, self-defense training and the right to carry firearms. Additionally, the group wants secure parking for prosecutors, particularly those who handle dangerous criminal cases. "Prosecutors are on the front lines like federal agents; they are the face of federal law enforcement," says former federal prosecutor Peter Prieto.
4 minute read
July 22, 2010 |

Research: Law Schools Skew Liberal, But Conservatives Also Land Prestige Jobs

Law schools hire more openly liberal professors than openly conservatives ones, but the plum jobs at the most prestigious schools don't appear to be going solely to the liberals.
3 minute read
June 22, 2010 |

Investing in America Through E-2 and EB-5 Visa Categories

Angelo A. Paparelli, Stephen Yale-Loehr and Ted J. Chiappari outline two strategies ? the E-2 "Treaty Investor" visa1 and the EB-5 "Employment Creation" green card ? that foreign investors may pursue to obtain a variety of privileges in the United States.
12 minute read
December 02, 2011 |

Rabbi's startup rewards moms for watching ads, playing games

When Tiffany Ivanovsky isn't taking care of her seven children or working as a director of a Christian preschool in The Woodlands, Texas, she's writing about shopping deals for parents on her blog, MyLitter.com. While unearthing bargains for her 300,000-plus monthly readers, Ivanovsky, 36, clips coupons for her own family, too, using a rewards site called Swagbucks.
4 minute read
November 16, 2007 |

Home run king Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.The indictment unsealed Thursday against baseball's home-run king culminated a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes.
4 minute read
August 23, 2006 |

In The Trenches: Knowles leaving K&S to return to Glaxo

SHERRY M. KNOWLES is leaving King Spalding, where she is a partner, for GlaxoSmithKline, where she will become the global head of intellectual property and a senior vice president in September. She replaces David Roberts, who is retiring.Knowles will have offices in Philadelphia and London but will continue to reside in Atlanta.
3 minute read
December 20, 2010 |

Former Drinker Biddle Chairman Jones Dies at 71

Morgan R. "Dick" Jones, who served as chairman of Drinker Biddle & Reath for 11 years, died Friday morning at the age of 71 after a brief battle with pneumonia.
4 minute read

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