Plaintiffs law firms are spending money and time on websites and social media in marketing efforts that are beginning to take the place of more traditional ads. Potential clients are increasingly targeted through websites set up to resemble community forums or news boards, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. The story starts with an [...]
A former secretary at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson claims in a revised lawsuit that the firm discriminated against older staffers and those who had taken family or medical leave in 2008 layoffs. Judith Cuttler, who is in her early 60s, was one of at least eight secretaries who lost their jobs, the American [...]
Saying that it was crippled by a lack of cash flow from unpaid government-funded representations, the United Kingdom’s biggest immigration law firm has failed, leaving some 10,000 cases in limbo. The U.K.’s Ministry of Justice refused calls by legal experts and the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene and shore up Refugee and Migrant Justice, and [...]
Akerman Senterfitt will be representing BP in Florida litigation over the Gulf oil spill, and it’s bulking up its lawyer roster. Akerman is acquiring lawyers and employees from two offices of Detroit-based Butzel Long, Crain’s Detroit Business reports. Akerman has hired eight lawyers, five paralegals and eight support staff from Butzel’s offices in Boca Raton [...]
A public radio executive plans to use a Massachusetts courtroom as a laboratory to develop best practices for coverage of court proceedings by bloggers and journalists using new media. John Davidow, executive director of new media for WBUR.org, is spearheading the project with a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, according to Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites [...]
An attractive New York banker who sparked a media frenzy by suing her former employer for allegedly firing her because she was “too distracting” in a business suit and high heels hasn’t fared well lately in the court of public opinion. A years-old video clip in which Debrahlee Lorenzana extols the benefits of plastic surgery [...]
Frost Brown Todd partner Chris Habel is a big fan of his firm’s new yearlong apprenticeship program that pays new associates reduced salaries of $80,000 while they focus on training and client interaction. “It’s turned out fabulously, to be honest,” Habel tells the National Law Journal. “The clients understand that we are trying to improve [...]
A proposed ethics rule barring Utah lawyers from knowingly making false statements about the judicial system has garnered no supporters in online comments. Online critics said the proposal is too broad, too vague and “smacks of totalitarianism,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The comment period closed on Monday. The proposal was a response to an [...]
A Toronto lawyer who represents a Canadian engineer who claims he was wrongly accused of terrorism and sent to Syria for torture is pursuing a separate but related suit that claims Thomson Reuters Corp. is improperly asserting a copyright in lawyers’ documents. Lawyer Lorne Waldman claims Thomson Reuters posted a document in its Westlaw Litigator [...]
In a new incident among a spate of case-related violent attacks on lawyers in recent weeks, a Minnesota man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing his ex-wife’s attorney a dozen times in her law office on Friday. Terri Ann Melcher, 54, was alone in her Fridley, Minn., office at the time and [...]