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May 04, 2000 |

Firm Flight

Young attorneys are eager to join a new California gold rush to start-up technology companies. But for every in-house counsel that hits it big, there's a dozen who take a pay cut and watch their stock options stagnate. Associates' perception of a pre-public Internet company is that "it's better than sex, better than food, better than eternal life," said recruiter Marty Africa. "Associates are turning down companies that have been public for six months for those without inside bathrooms."
10 minute read
September 25, 2007 |

Law School Loans About to Be Lightened for Some

Help for lawyers with crippling law school debt may finally be on the way with the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. The bill aims to help law students and other graduates through an income-based loan-repayment plan. A White House spokesman says President Bush has indicated he will sign the legislation. Law professor Philip Schrag says that because the bill is part of a package that reauthorizes some programs due to expire on Oct. 1, he hopes the signing will take place before that.
3 minute read
May 17, 1999 |

Huh? I'm the Lead Plaintiff?

Plaintiffs' lawyers in a securities suit against Digital Lightwave Inc., accused of cooking the books to lure unwary investors, may have got more than they bargained for when they made San Francisco investor and lawyer Charles Chalmers a lead plaintiff. Chalmers, invoking a federal statute designed to give principal plaintiffs in such cases more control, claims a settlement in the case was inadequate and that, moreover, he was never properly informed of his status as a "class representative."
8 minute read
September 12, 2013 |

Lawyers Flood AG With Queries To Defend Georgia In Water Wars

Lawyers who want to defend Georgia from Florida's impending lawsuit over water rights range from a former U.S. solicitor general who regularly charges more than $1,100 per hour to a recent law school graduate who offered to work for free.
10 minute read
March 20, 2012 |

Lackawanna County Guardian Ad Litem Sued In Federal Court

A Lackawanna County man has sued the county's guardian ad litem in federal court, along with the Lackawanna County Common Pleas Court, alleging the family court's guardian program deprived litigants of constitutional rights and that the court's sole guardian "thoroughly misunderstood and misapplied her role."
7 minute read
May 14, 2009 |

GOP recruiters tilting toward center in 2010 races

WASHINGTON AP - Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh argue the Republican Party needs less moderation and more conservative backbone to win back voters who have been abandoning it in droves.Leaders of the party's 2010 election efforts don't think ideological purity is the answer.In the latest example, key Republican senators jumped this week behind the Senate candidacy of centrist GOP Gov.
5 minute read
May 02, 2011 |

Retirement of One of America's Most Influential Judges Spurs Rumor Mill on Replacement

The Delaware legal community is abuzz with speculation about a replacement for Chancellor William B. Chandler III, who announced his retirement earlier this week.
4 minute read
October 26, 2010 |

Sunshine in the Forecast as Managing Partners Say, Finally, Future Is Brighter

For K&L Gates, this is not the time to pinch pennies. Unlike most other managing partners who have been in cutting mode, the law firm's Miami managing partner, Dan Casey, is on a spending spree.
10 minute read
January 26, 1999 |

Gold Amid Guns?

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