Recent Updates
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Supreme Court considering changing lawyer ad rules
Headline News 01/06/2010The state Supreme Court is considering changing Indiana's rules governing advertising by attorneys. State Trial Court Services Director Tom Carusillo says many of the proposed changes are designed to clarify the rules' language or update the rules to...
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Campaign finance law: Third time a charm?
Headline News 01/03/2010Vermonters running for office this year are already raising and spending money, but the rules that try to limit the influence of campaign money on government are murky.Legislators may – again – pass a bill this year limiting donations from individual...
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Fla. gov: No reason to refuse lawyer's donations
Headline News 12/28/2009Florida's governor says he saw no reason to investigate a South Florida lawyer charged with operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme or refuse his political contributions.Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday he initially didn't believe rumors about now disbar...
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Indian reservation cigarettes under fire in NY
Headline News 12/11/2009The City of New York has accused several cigarette dealers on a Long Island Indian reservation of secretly defying a court order that was supposed to have shut them down.The charge is the latest in a legal battle between New York Mayor Michael Bloomb...
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FEC fines Fieger firm over campaign donations
Headline News 11/20/2009A Michigan law firm has agreed to pay a $131,000 fine to resolve an investigation into donations to former Sen. John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign.The Federal Election Commission said Thursday it had reached an agreement with the law firm of Ge...
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FBI says hackers targeting law firms, PR companies
Headline News 11/18/2009Hackers are increasingly targeting law firms and public relations companies with a sophisticated e-mail scheme that breaks into their computer networks to steal sensitive data, often linked to large corporate clients doing business overseas.The FBI h...
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CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
Headline News 11/17/2009Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.Since becoming the first H...
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Downturn has some law firms downsizing offices
Headline News 11/12/2009"Legal services employment in Boston, which never fully recovered from the previous recession, is now shedding jobs at a rate not seen since the recession of the early nineties," and one result is that some local law firms are unloading no-longer-nee...
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Lawyer: No `necessity defense' planned for Roeder
Headline News 11/11/2009An anti-abortion activist says he's the one who killed a Kansas abortion provider — and did it because it was necessary to save lives. But one of his attorneys says there's no such thing as a "necessity defense" in state law, and that is not the stra...
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Reed Smith law firm to reduce billing rates, cut salaries
Headline News 11/11/2009Reed Smith, one of Pittsburgh's largest law firms, said Tuesday it will reduce its hourly billing rates 20 percent in January, as well as cut salaries of newly hired lawyers.The moves are a response to client concerns about "driving down the cost of ...
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Top 250 Law Firms Collectively Shrank by 5,259 Lawyers
Headline News 11/09/2009A survey of the nation’s top 250 law firms shows they collectively shed 5,259 lawyers in the past year, a drop of 4 percent.The drop is the largest since the National Law Journal started collecting the information in 1978. The survey has recorded onl...
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Ponzi-chasing law firm goes after JPMorgan
Headline News 11/06/2009The law firm of Burlingame attorney Joe Cotchett filed suit today against JPMorgan Chase, in connection with a busted, $150 million Bay Area Ponzi scheme.As stated in a press release sent out by the firm, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, the scheme, w...