Cities Prune Budgets to Monitor Aging Trees as Injury Claims Add Up Sitting or walking under an aging tree can be dangerous, lawsuits reveal. The case of Alexis Handwerker illustrates the hazards, the New York Times reports. She was seated on a bench beneath an elm in Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Square Park in 2007 when a [...]
It isn’t just plaintiffs lawyers who are looking to hire professionals with medical expertise to help point the way toward high-value tort claims. A number of well-known law firms have recently hired nonlawyer physicians to bolster their defense practices, the On the Docket blog of Forbes magazine reports. Among them is Atlanta-based Arnall Golden Gregory, [...]
An unscientific survey of 13 managing partners gathered for a meeting in California revealed the iPad faces a marketing challenge among law firm leaders. The Legal Pad blog threw out a question about iPad ownership at a meeting hosted by Justin Miller, director of a legal specialty group for Union Bank. “The results surprised us,” [...]
Overall unemployment rose to 9.9 percent this month, and 2,200 legal jobs were lost in the past two months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest figures report the loss of approximately 1,000 law jobs in March and 1,100 jobs in April. There was a rebound in law jobs in Feburary; the initial Bureau of Labor [...]
The state attorney general has sued a New York attorney for fraud and violation of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, contending that John Nicolia sold his name for $141,000 for to a debt collector who used it to bolster its illegal collection tactics during 2008 and 2009. The collector, Eastern Asset Management, allegedly [...]
For Parents and Youth ages 12 or older Atlanta Area Bar Association and a church are teaming up… Come out and listen, as it takes a village to keep our young people on the right path to success. Also, please share it with others that you know who have teenagers ages 12 and up. More [...]
Belt-tightening saved large law firms in the short term, but it may not be enough to shore up profits in the long term, according to a law firm adviser. Law firm leaders will need to begin thinking and acting like CEOs to grow revenue and control costs, according to an American Lawyer (sub. req.) article [...]
Foley & Lardner has amped up its insurance and reinsurance litigation practice with the addition of a seven-lawyer group that formerly practiced in the now-shuttered Chicago office of Lovells. Headed by partners Gail Goering, Eric Haab and Neal Moglin, the group also includes counsel Kay Wilde, senior counsel Peter Steffen and associates Edward Diffin and [...]