Recent Updates
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Imagining a Public Law Firm’s Earnings Report
Attorney Blogs 04/23/2008Nearly a year after an Australian law firm went public, many in the legal profession are still tittering over whether any American players would follow suit.By necessity, law firms are fairly tight-lipped about much of the work they do. That would ha...
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Same-sex marriage on court docket
Attorney Blogs 03/03/2008[##_1L|1400725235.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]As gay-rights groups call for marital equality and opponents warn of a public backlash, societal decay and religious conflict, the California Supreme Court is prepared for an epic three-hour he...
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How to find a good lawyer
Attorney Blogs 02/29/2008Q: I am looking for a lawyer and would like some tips on how to find a good one. Do all Illinois lawyers receive the same training?A: In order to be licensed to practice law in Illinois, a lawyer must receive a law degree from an accredited law schoo...
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Photo Tech Complicates Child-Porn Cases
Attorney Blogs 02/26/2008Each week, about 100,000 sexually explicit images of children arrive on CDs or portable disk drives at Michelle Collins' office.They are sent by police and prosecutors who hope Collins and her 11 analysts at the National Center for Missing and Exploi...
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Big-Law Associates Facing 2008 Salary Cap
Attorney Blogs 02/17/2008[##_1L|1090023031.jpg|width="125" height="125" alt=""|_##]When in 2006 big law firms bumped up the starting salary for first-year lawyers $20,000 to $145,000, we thought, those lucky associates! When, last year, they told us it was going to $160,000,...
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Office Romances & The Law
Attorney Blogs 02/15/2008Recently, on the American version of the TV show “The Office,” two of the main characters — Jim and Pam — confess to their co-workers that they’ve become romantically involved. In the spirit of openness and responsibility, the couple goes to the head...
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Have 2 firms? Make sure they relate
Attorney Blogs 02/11/2008For some entrepreneurs, opportunity knocks again and again. While practicing corporate real estate law at Jenner & Block, Jennifer Sara Levin saw an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of other professionals by sharing what she had lear...
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Who is the Obama of Law Firms?
Attorney Blogs 02/07/2008The New York Observer has answered a burning political question that never occurred to us, at least until now: "If the major presidential candidates were top New York law firms, which ones would they be?"Lawyers in New York - perhaps enjoying a bit m...
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Va. argues for unauthorized evidence
Attorney Blogs 01/14/2008The Supreme Court's long-running debate over the meaning of federalism took a new turn in a case the justices heard on Monday. The question was, What happens when a state chooses to give criminal suspects more protection than the federal Constitution...
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Emerging markets fuel firms' global growth
Attorney Blogs 01/03/2008Chicago mayer Brown's global ambitions received a much-needed boost late last month when the Chicago law firm announced it will join forces with a 260-lawyer Hong Kong-based firm. The deal, a rare trans-Pacific legal merger, reflects how the forces o...
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Lawyers try to catch up in tech world
Attorney Blogs 12/30/2007Technology was late to come to the world of lawyers and law firms, long known for quill pens and steno pads. But now that it has arrived, it is spreading briskly.Modern-day law firms, especially megafirms with offices around the world, rely heavily o...
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Class-Action Cases Rise, Fueled by Subprime Troubles
Attorney Blogs 12/24/2007[##_1L|1155853353.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]The subprime mess is turning out to be a boon for class-action lawyers. Litigation stemming from the housing crisis is driving an increase in class-action filings, according to a study to be r...