You don’t hear much about women’s rights and women’s equality these days. And perhaps you’re a woman lawyer protecting the civil rights and human rights for others. EEOC laws are on the books. But are you, The Attorney, being treated fairly? A legal law firm, according to the Equal Pay Act of 1963,  protects men [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The former chief operating officer for the now-shuttered Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm has pleaded guilty to a federal money-laundering conspiracy charge and said she helped her ex-boss, now-disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein, because she feared potential Mafia repercussions if she didn’t. Initially, Debra Villegas told U.S. District Judge William Zloch, she agreed to prepare fake [...]

The Securities and Exchange Commission nixed a newspaper’s Freedom of Information Act request for the names of some 33 employees and contractors–many of them attorneys–determined by an Office of Inspector General report to have been watching porn on their government computers, on government time. But now a Colorado lawyer has taken the issue to federal [...]

As summer associate classes shrink at a number of major New York law firms this year, law students lucky enough to have made the cut have an enhanced opportunity for a quality work experience. Given the reduced ratio of summer associates, there is more opportunity for interaction with partners and other lawyers at at these [...]

Reversing a lower court ruling that a screenwriter’s critical comments on Craigslist about a California lawyer were protected by the First Amendment, a state appeals court last week reinstated attorney Richard Gibson’s suit. The comments allegedly posted by screenwriter Justin Swingle in conjunction with advertisements for Gibson’s law practice on Craigslist, held the Court of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]