Have lawyer blogs really caught on among corporate counsel who could throw work your way? Twenty-seven percent of 164 in-house counsel who responded to a survey (PDF) indicated that reading blogs published by lawyers on relevant topics was one of their most important activities for researching outside counsel for a potential hire. The survey was [...]
The culture is changing at Cravath, Swaine & Moore as partners in their 30s and 40s are handling high-profile work that once would have gone to older lawyers. The older generation of lawyers was on board with the “sea change,” the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports, partly because their pay wasn’t cut when work [...]
You can get the Supreme Court’s top constitutional law cases at your fingertips with a new iPhone app called PocketJustice. The free version has abstracts of the court’s top 100 constitutional decisions, while the version that costs $4.99 has information on more than 600 cases, according to Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites. The cases argued or decided [...]
Morris Manning & Martin’s summer associates should expect a full load of substantive work this summer. But extravagant social events are a thing of the past. That’s according to the Atlanta-based firm’s managing partner Louise Wells, who tells the ABA Journal that the newest recruits were also cautioned that permanent positions won’t be a sure-thing. [...]
The rats kept scurrying through Idrissa Munu’s home in Washington, D.C., for several years, even after he killed three with a baseball bat and took them in a plastic bag to the property manager’s office to complain. But after a doctor at the Children’s National Medical Center connected the rodents—and mold at the family’s apartment—to [...]
Anyone doing anything online has probably used Google. If you’re a business, you want to be found on Google. And once your customer, client, prospect or even competitor finds you on the internet, you want the Google results for your company to be good. By good I mean both accurate and positive. One of the [...]
Austin, Texas, solo practioner Scott Field has this bit of advice for law grads thinking of hanging out their own shingle: Don’t do it. Writing for Texas Lawyer, Field says solo practice is difficult even for experienced veterans. “No one else is responsible for bringing in business,” said Field, who has practiced in firms of [...]
Law firms, it appears, are like hotels. There is a higher “rack rate” that is held out as the norm, but the amount charged is often lower. And law firms have different billing rates for different clients, even when the work is similar. Those are the findings of an analysis of more than $4 billion [...]
Several law firms in the Washington, D.C., area are moving to new digs, lured by good deals and the convenience of moving rather than renovating. Law firms are downsizing, going from 800 or 900 square feet per lawyer to spaces configured to provide about 600 square feet per employee, according to Thomas Fulcher Jr., co-branch [...]
Legal secretaries are largely invisible in the academic literature, but one Chicago law professor is setting out to change that. Felice Batlan, an assistant law professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, surveyed 164 legal secretaries last year and learned some sobering news, the Wisconsin Law Journal reports. Nearly 20 percent had recently lost their [...]