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May 10, 2010 |

Seattle avoids the mood swings

Law firms based in Seattle have enjoyed relatively stable revenue and profits despite the economic recession. One factor helping buoy Seattle is that it didn't experience the massive boom in business that other cities did during the mid-2000s because it was still recovering from the dot-com bust.
6 minute read
November 03, 2008 |

Survival tips for law firms: Discount fees, cuddle up to clients

A panel speaking on the issue of the future of law firms last week at the DRI conference in New Orleans offered this advice to firm leaders: Be willing to discount fees, step up diversity initiatives and work hard at deepening relationships with clients. Some panelists advocated a return to the days of retainer fees, as opposed to the current law firm model in which companies are billed for every hour of service and law firms are under pressure to bill.
4 minute read
October 31, 2008 |

Survival Tips For Law Firms

So, how will the law firm of the future survive? Here are a few tips: Be willing to discount fees or use "success fees," and embrace other other creative arrangements over large hourly billing rates. Also, step up diversity initiatives and work hard at deepening relationships with clients.
4 minute read
November 05, 2008 |

A man goes to court to fight his own impending autopsy

A man anticipating death from a rare form of cancer caused by inhaling asbestos is challenging the constitutionality of a court order requiring his body to be autopsied as a condition of his estate being paid a settlement. "Autopsy is very invasive," said the man's lawyer Matthew Bergman. "No one should have to do it if they don't want to."
2 minute read
June 06, 2003 |

Do the SEC's Proposed Standards of Professional Conduct Apply to You?

Through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the SEC is fulfilling the Congressional mandate to require public companies to disclose and remediate violations of SEC regulations. This article discusses the SEC's definition of an "attorney" under its proposed standards of professional conduct and its proposed alternative to an earlier draft "noisy withdrawal" ethics rule. The following scenarios demonstrate when and how an attorney may have to respond under the act.
10 minute read
September 08, 2003 |

The benefits of diversity

On June 23, a quarter century after deciding University of California v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Grutter v. Bollinger and affirmed the principle that diversity is fundamentally important to the educational institutions of this country. Although there were references to the importance of diversity in other institutions such as the military, businesses and the justice system, such references were not the focus of the opinion.
4 minute read
November 01, 2004 |

A new bar exam hurdle: Indian law

Washington has become the second state to include Indian law as one of the topics the bar exam covers, and several other states may add the subject to their tests. New Mexico's bar exam already includes Indian law, and a push is under way in Arizona, Oregon, Idaho and Oklahoma to add it.
3 minute read
November 03, 2003 |

Indian law and bar exams

By now, another 35,000 citizens taken the state bar examination. Bar takers must stand prepared to analyze principles fundamental to the Anglo-American legal system. However, there is an age-old, ever-evolving and increasingly prevalent body of law that is not tested on the bar exam. The unique blend of tribal, state and federal law is commonly known as "Indian law."
4 minute read

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