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  • Lawyer: No `necessity defense' planned for Roeder

    Lawyer: No `necessity defense' planned for Roeder

    Headline News 11/11/2009

    An anti-abortion activist says he's the one who killed a Kansas abortion provider — and did it because it was necessary to save lives. But one of his attorneys says there's no such thing as a "necessity defense" in state law, and that is not the stra...

  • Reed Smith law firm to reduce billing rates, cut salaries

    Reed Smith law firm to reduce billing rates, cut salaries

    Headline News 11/11/2009

    Reed Smith, one of Pittsburgh's largest law firms, said Tuesday it will reduce its hourly billing rates 20 percent in January, as well as cut salaries of newly hired lawyers.The moves are a response to client concerns about "driving down the cost of ...

  • Top 250 Law Firms Collectively Shrank by 5,259 Lawyers

    Top 250 Law Firms Collectively Shrank by 5,259 Lawyers

    Headline News 11/09/2009

    A survey of the nation’s top 250 law firms shows they collectively shed 5,259 lawyers in the past year, a drop of 4 percent.The drop is the largest since the National Law Journal started collecting the information in 1978. The survey has recorded onl...

  • Ponzi-chasing law firm goes after JPMorgan

    Ponzi-chasing law firm goes after JPMorgan

    Headline News 11/06/2009

    The law firm of Burlingame attorney Joe Cotchett filed suit today against JPMorgan Chase, in connection with a busted, $150 million Bay Area Ponzi scheme.As stated in a press release sent out by the firm, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, the scheme, w...

  • Florida Law Firm Asks to Be Dissolved

    Florida Law Firm Asks to Be Dissolved

    Headline News 11/04/2009

    A prominent Fort Lauderdale law firm is asking a Florida court to dissolve it amid allegations that substantial amounts of money are missing from accounts created by the firm's co-founder, Scott Rothstein.The possible dissolution of Rothstein Rosenfe...

  • Cravath Firm Cuts Bonuses for Most-Junior Lawyers

    Cravath Firm Cuts Bonuses for Most-Junior Lawyers

    Headline News 11/03/2009

    Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, the New York law firm, announced bonuses for salaried lawyers ranging from $7,500 to $30,000, based on experience, according to bloomberg.Cravath’s announcement opens the bonus season among large New York law firms. T...

  • Prominent law firm investigates partner

    Prominent law firm investigates partner

    Headline News 11/02/2009

    The Supreme Court turned away another appeal to stop the release of documents generated for sexual abuse lawsuits against priests in a Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut.The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the Diocese of Bridgeport,...

  • Court examines jury selection in doc's slay trial

    Court examines jury selection in doc's slay trial

    Headline News 10/28/2009

    The highest court in Massachusetts is scrutinizing the jury selection process in the trial of a once-prominent doctor who is serving a life sentence in the 1999 killing of his wife.The Supreme Judicial Court has ordered Judge Paul Chernoff to answer ...

  • Ludacris Sued For Allegedly Stiffing Former Law Firm

    Ludacris Sued For Allegedly Stiffing Former Law Firm

    Headline News 10/22/2009

    Law firm Carlton Fields P.A. has filed suit against Atlanta rapper Ludacris. reports the Courthouse News Service.Luda is being sued for non-payment of legal fees for services rendered between March 2008 and April 2009.The firm represented Ludacris an...

  • Chief justice warns cuts put courts at risk

    Chief justice warns cuts put courts at risk

    Headline News 10/22/2009

    With another round of state budget cuts looming, Margaret H. Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, warned yesterday that financial troubles are clogging the courts, pulling probate officers from Boston schools, and d...

  • Morrison & Foerster to Cut Associates’ Salaries to $145,000

    Morrison & Foerster to Cut Associates’ Salaries to $145,000

    Headline News 10/21/2009

    Morrison & Foerster LLP, the San Francisco-based law firm, will cut starting salaries to $145,000 for associates based in U.S. cities except New York, where they will remain $160,000, the firm said. “The market for first-year salaries among natio...

  • Sandoval takes job with Jones Vargas law firm

    Sandoval takes job with Jones Vargas law firm

    Headline News 10/20/2009

    Former U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval has joined the Nevada law firm of Jones Vargas.Sandoval, a Republican, resigned from the bench last month to launch a campaign for governor.He said he will focus on building an alternative dispute resolution ...

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