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Finding the Right Environmental Lawyer for You: How to Choose the Best Fit for Your Needs

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Environment law is one of the fastest-growing areas of legal practice, with specialist firms and boutiques rubbing shoulders with Big Law practices with teams of lawyers handling this increasingly important legal area. The number of firms handling environmental law continues to grow, as the US News ‘Best Law Firms’ list indicates. In recent years there …

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Is Parental Leave ‘Sitting on Your Ass’, As One Lawyer Suggested?

Is Parental Leave 'Sitting on Your Ass', As One Lawyer Suggested? 5

The understandable results of the comment have left the law firm embarrassed and the texting lawyer without a job of his own – presumably sitting on his own ass. A Cleveland lawyer lost his job following an insulting text message he sent to a colleague who had returned from parental leave and resigned for another …

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Two US Big Law Firms Make Major Staffing Cuts

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The slowdown in legal work has bitten Big Law firm Goodwin Procter who have been making cuts to their staffing across the board. The firm revealed in an email from firm chair Robert Insolia and the firm’s managing partner Mark T Bettencourt that about five per cent of the firm’s ‘timekeepers’ and operational workers were …

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