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Summer Associates Are N.J. Firms' Fall Hires
New Jersey's largest firms are offering full-time jobs to this year's summer associates at a rate of 87 percent. Hiring partners and coordinators say it's a sign that this year's crop worked hard and that the firms made accurate estimates of their entry level lawyer needs for 2006. At the 18 big firms that have decided on offers to summer associates, 97 of the 110 eligible students were picked.Defenses to Preference Actions
One of your bigger customers has filed a Chapter 11 petition in bankruptcy court, leaving you with unpaid invoices. To add insult to injury, you receive a summons and complaint in the mail from the lawyers for your debtor or the bankruptcy trustee suing your company for recovery of payments that you received from the debtor within the 90 days prior to the bankruptcy based upon the preference section of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. What are your options?Prominent Lawyers, Judges Call for Downward Departure
Twenty-nine prominent former federal judges and attorneys have signed an amicus curiae brief urging a Utah federal judge to depart from a mandatory minimum sentence against a defendant charged with possession of firearms and various drug charges. The list of impressive names underscores the intensity of the ongoing debate over mandatory minimum sentences. The amicus brief argues that mandatory minimum sentences violates the Eighth Amendment for cruel and unusual punishment.Five Ways for Young Attorneys to Survive in a Precarious Economy
This article sets forth several guideposts for young attorneys to consider as they chart their new careers in a legal market that has created unprecedented challenges.In re The Muralo Company, Inc.,
Where thousands of asbestos-related claims throughout the country have been filed against the debtors by plaintiffs, who are represented by 76 attorneys, the debtors' motion to permit service on the attorneys, rather than on the individual plaintiffs, in the debtors' adversary proceeding seeking a declaratory judgment that they are not responsible for the asbestos claims, is granted; in a mass-tort case, the retention of counsel by large numbers of claimants of necessity defines a broad scope of represenA Buyer's Guide to Law Firm Software
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