Recent Updates
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When Law Firms Say It's Time to Retire
Headline News 10/18/2007[##_1L|1085053344.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]The American Bar Association doesn't want them. Most lawyers apparently don't like them. But many law firms have them. Retirement policies exist in several forms, but the 65-and-older crowd isn...
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Defections lead to new law firm
Headline News 10/18/2007Three lawyers split from personal injury attorney William Mattar and formed their own practice. Dean Smith, Joseph Bergen and Todd Schiffmacher broke from the Law Offices of William Mattar on Oct. 15 and opened Smith Bergen & Schiffmacher LLP the...
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Philadelphia Law Firm Accused Of 'Pay To Play'
Headline News 10/15/2007[##_1L|1061569550.jpg|width="180" height="128" alt=""|_##]Attorney Pat Biswanger filed a federal complaint last month in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the Philadelphia law firm Cozen O'Connor P.C. Ms. Biswanger claims she was the victi...
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Law Firm, LPD Among Those Backing Career Academies
Headline News 10/15/2007When the Polk County school system issued a request seeking partnerships from area businesses in creating career academies at high schools, several answered the call. The result is a handful of strong partnerships that will provide relevant instructi...
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The Survey of Law Firm eMarketing Practices
Headline News 10/12/2007[##_1L|1326749864.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]The law firms in the sample employ a surprisingly low number of editorial employees, a mean of less than one writer per firm. Firms with more than 200 lawyers employed a bit less than 1.5 write...
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Study: Law firm technology expected to grow
Headline News 10/12/2007[##_1L|1084209754.jpg|width="80" height="146" alt=""|_##]Although the largest U.S. law firms have average annual technology operating budgets of almost $10 million - about 17,000 per lawyer - market penetration by most legal software products is stil...
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Denver, Calif. Law Firms to Merge
Headline News 10/12/2007[##_1L|1330111702.jpg|width="120" height="91" alt=""|_##]An influential Denver law firm said it would merge with a California firm that specializes in water law, a move it said would position it to represent clients across the West in water cases. Br...
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Skeptical Court Considers Investors Case
Headline News 10/09/2007[##_1L|1024463154.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court reacted skeptically Tuesday to arguments that banks, lawyers, accountants and suppliers should be held liable for helping publicly held companies deceive investors. Chief Jus...
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Roe Vs. Wade For The Securities Industry
Headline News 10/08/2007[##_1L|1083429308.jpg|width="120" height="93" alt=""|_##]This Tuesday promises to be a historic day for the securities industry. At stake? The very integrity of our financial system, according to one pension fund manager. The dramatic verbiage is not...
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Law firm to pay millions in age discrimination case
Headline News 10/06/2007[##_1L|1264596125.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]One of the nation's largest law firms has agreed to pay a $27.5-million settlement to 32 former partners to end a ground-breaking age discrimination case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Comm...
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High court examines judges' power to be lenient
Headline News 10/03/2007[##_1L|1201164296.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with how much discretion U.S. judges have to give lenient sentnces, including in crack cocaine cases. The justices appeared torn on the question that could ...
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U.S. court opens term, with terrorism, death penalty
Headline News 10/02/2007[##_1L|1362007980.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]The U.S. Supreme Court began a new term on Monday featuring blockbuster cases on Guantanamo prisoners and the death penalty, and it rejected some 2,000 appeals that had piled up during its sum...