Law Firms

Writing a winning resume has always been part-art and part-science, but never more than today in a tight legal market. A podcast carried on the ABA Journal indicated that not underselling, nor overselling yourself are just some of the problems. Among the issues discussed in the podcast on the ABA Journal were such matters as […]

Why would BigLaw be worried about Twitter, Facebook and the other ‘threats’ from social media? Or is it just foot-dragging reluctance to engage in all that new-age, social media, techie stuff that seems so removed from everything law firms used to do to get some extra profile. Well, things are a-changing, as the Washington Post

Rush Limbaugh’s denigration of a Georgetown University law student as a “slut” because of what she said before a congressional committee on the need for birth control access, has lead to strong support from the law school Sandra Fluke is a 3L who received a telephone call from President Obama to see if she was

What is going on at Dewey & LeBoeuf? It’s a questions that’s been on many legal lips of late, particularly with reports that the firm has defaulted on payments to former parments and on a required ERISA deposit. So what is happening to the big-name firm? A report from AbovetheLaw recently reported the allegations of

Iran has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, to 18 years in jail for allegedly spreading anti-regime propaganda, several opposition websites reported on Tuesday. “One of my husband’s lawyers was told that my husband was sentenced to 18 years in jail in Borazjan (south Iran) and was also banned from practising law for

Value billing. Alternative billing arrangements. Flat fees. Whatever the remedy to an oft-forecasted falling sky of unsustainability, the standard hourly billing scheme retains its majority stake on the invoices— and in the comfort zones—of corporate counsel, many of whom sharpened their baby teeth in Big Law. While demand is on the uptick for other means

How funny is it for a law firm to instruct a comedian to help it with communication issues? Well, Duane Morris addressed its communication problems just that way and . . it worked, they say. Law Marketing expert Robert Ambrogi reports on what happened with Duane Morris. International law firm Duane Morris had a problem.

The best law schools in the US have been ranked by the National Law Journal according to the percentage of 2011 juris doctor graduates. The law school rankings always generates controversy and argument as to how it should be calculated, but the NLJ notes that among the 50 schools in their survey, 22 per cent