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November 07, 2012 |

Election night produces mixed results for Am Law lawyers

Winners like Morgan, Lewis & Bockius appellate litigation partner Ted Cruz, who ran for the U.S. Senate in Texas, were offset by losers like former Republican Governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson, who stepped down as health care partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in January to also run for a Senate seat.
5 minute read
April 15, 2013 |

Meet the Lawyers Appointed to Texas Senators’ Screening Committee for Federal Judgeships, U.S. Attorney Positions in the Lone Star State

U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, Republicans of Texas, today announced their bipartisan Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, which will screen and recommend nominees for federal judicial and U.S. attorney vacancies in Texas.
3 minute read
December 02, 2008 |

Susan Etezadi

The ex-homicide prosecutor, now a San Mateo County Superior Court judge with family court and criminal assignments, tries to stay "energizing" in court.
5 minute read
January 22, 2013 |

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 22, No. 14 – January 22, 2013

Daily decision alert.
12 minute read
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

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