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<title>Chilly Outlook For Summer Associates</title>
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Recent accounts from firm partners and school career counselors sketch a sobering portrait of the job outlook. With no sign of a lasting rebound in the wider economy, some law firm leaders are playing it safe by reducing their 2010 summer programs or skipping them altogether.]]>
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<title>Dreier's Guilty Plea</title>
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Marc Dreier, the New York law firm founder accused of defrauding hedge funds by selling $700 million in phony promissory notes, might face life in prison after pleading guilty to fraud charges.]]>
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<title>Clifford Chance Split Sees New Boutique Formed In Big Apple</title>
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Four attorneys from Clifford Chance's litigation department in New York have left to set up an arbitration boutique.
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<title>Big Changes For Big Law With Recession</title>
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The downturn has likely ended the traditional BigLaw model that produces $160,000 starting salaries and relies on elite law schools to supply new associates.]]>
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<title>The Legal Swine Flu Contagion</title>
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Lawyers say employer clients want to know what they can do within the law to contain the swine flu if it strikes their workplaces. Attorneys for workers say lawmakers need to adopt protections for parents who might miss work because of school closures or a child's illness.]]>
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<title>Madoff's Personal Piggy Bank</title>
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Convicted conman Bernard Madoff turned his investment firm into his “personal piggy bank,” using tens of millions of dollars in client funds to cover costs for employees and family members, court papers say.]]>
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<title>Lawyers Struggling With Depression</title>
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Across the United States, lawyer assistance programs are seeing demand for their services grow as the economy struggles.]]>
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<title>The Declining Fortunes Of Once Fortunate Law Firms</title>
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All but three of the most profitable New York law firms saw profits per partner fall, the American Lawyer reports.]]>
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<title>Obama's Supreme Court Dilemma</title>
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Many American presidents have been lawyers, but almost none have come to office with Barack Obama’s knowledge of the Supreme Court. Before he was 30, he was editing articles by eminent legal scholars on the court’s decisions. Later, as a law professor, he led students through landmark cases from Plessy v. Ferguson to Bush v. Gore.]]>
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<title>Jones Day Already Billed Chrysler $18 Million</title>
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AmLaw Daily spent the morning digging into some of the filings already crowding the Chrysler bankruptcy docket, but it's going to be a while before we find one more interesting than Jones Day's application to be Chrysler's lead counsel.]]>
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