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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.

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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 […]

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. Read More »

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 reports.

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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

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 reports. Read More »

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

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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

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 Read More »

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?

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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

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? Read More »

All sorts of fingers are pointing at Iran at present. Now there are more with the jailing of a prominent human rights lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, who has just received an 18 year jail term who, according to the regime, has been “spreading propaganda against the system” apart from other “crimes”.

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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

All sorts of fingers are pointing at Iran at present. Now there are more with the jailing of a prominent human rights lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, who has just received an 18 year jail term who, according to the regime, has been “spreading propaganda against the system” apart from other “crimes”. Read More »

Say what you like, but whether its alternative billing arrangements, flat fees or anything else, the good, old standard bill-by-the-hour model still hasn’t changed in terms of remaining the preferred billing model by America’s big law firms.

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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

Say what you like, but whether its alternative billing arrangements, flat fees or anything else, the good, old standard bill-by-the-hour model still hasn’t changed in terms of remaining the preferred billing model by America’s big law firms. Read More »

One of Britain’s top criminal lawyers, Scotland’s Paul McBride QC, has been found dead in a Pakistan hotel room while handling a parcel bomb case involving two men accused of sending him a parcel bomb.

Paul McBride, one of Scotland’s best-known criminal lawyers, has been found dead in a hotel in Pakistan midway through the trial of two men accused of sending him a parcel bomb. A prominent and outspoken QC, McBride was allegedly sent a device along with Neil Lennon, the Celtic football club manager, a senior Labour politician

One of Britain’s top criminal lawyers, Scotland’s Paul McBride QC, has been found dead in a Pakistan hotel room while handling a parcel bomb case involving two men accused of sending him a parcel bomb. Read More »

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.

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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.

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. Read More »

It’s always a top question . . what are the best law schools to go to. And the National Law Journal has come out with the University of Pennsylvania Law School as Number 1 in their ranking.

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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

It’s always a top question . . what are the best law schools to go to. And the National Law Journal has come out with the University of Pennsylvania Law School as Number 1 in their ranking. Read More »

Law firms face multiple challenges in 2012, not the least being the pressure on expenses says a new report from Thomson Reuters and Citibank.

Law firms are facing “a year of challenge and uncertainty” in 2012, forcing them to scramble to find innovative solutions in the face of soft demand and increasing costs, according to a new report from Reuters The forecast was released Wednesday in the annual client advisory by the Hildebrandt Institute, a division of Thomson Reuters,

Law firms face multiple challenges in 2012, not the least being the pressure on expenses says a new report from Thomson Reuters and Citibank. Read More »

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