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How to Stand Out on a Crowded Web
The Internet can really help generate business and buzz. One lawyer found the settlement from a case obtained through his online presence covered a year's worth of Web costs. Attorney and freelance writer Ari Kaplan looks at techniques small firms use to maximize their visibility.Paul Clement stays cool in High Court hot seat
IN THE PANTHEON of lawyers who have been blind-sided by their clients, it will be hard to top what happened to Paul Clement on April 28, 2004. Clement, then deputy solicitor general, was arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that Congress, in its post-9/11 authorization of military force, had also in effect given the green light to the military detention of Jose Padilla, a U.Dissing Secretary Put Top Litigator on the Road to Possible Disbarment
Prominent New Jersey litigator David Gross is facing possible disbarment for making a big mistake and two little ones. First, he took $50,000 from a client in 1998 and didn't share it with his partners. Second, he confided in his secretary about what he did. Third, he got on the secretary's wrong side, and she squealed to the firm four years later. In an opinion made public on Tuesday, the New Jersey Disciplinary Review Board recommended disbarment for Gross, a leading product liability practitioner.Locke Pick: Work at U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Harriet Miers' Former Firm Will Never Be the Same
Because of Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court, Locke Liddell & Sapp is the focus of attention from the national media, a situation that raises the firm's profile and presumably will lead to some new business. But the public hunt for any tidbit of information about Miers and the firm where she practiced for most of her career also brings attention to past problems.Injury During Exam Ruled Malpractice, Not Simple Negligence
Doctors who injure patients during the independent medical examinations required for plaintiffs in personal injury cases are subject to medical malpractice claims, not actions for ordinary negligence, a widely divided state Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The majority of the 4-3 Court held that a "limited physician-patient relationship" exists during such examinations, typically performed at the behest of insurers to determine the extent of injuries plaintiffs suffered in prior accidents. The the 2 1/2-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice should apply to any claims brought against doctors for harm done during the exams, the majority said.A Buyer's Guide to Law Firm Software
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