Some law firms are splurging on amenities to impress clients even as they cut back on office space for lawyers.
The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) lists some of…
Sep 8, 2015 6:15 AM CDT
Drivers passing a law firm billboard as they headed to Jackson, Mississippi, on Friday might well have thought it had been vandalized.
“Go MSU!” is seemingly spray-painted in giant letters…
Sep 4, 2015 2:00 PM CDT
A lawyer who signed up for the legal networking site Foxwordy to write a review for his blog has been banished from membership.
The lawyer, Robert Ambrogi of LawSites…
Sep 3, 2015 11:35 AM CDT
Ray Gallo was getting clients he didn’t even know he had.
In late 2008, Gallo’s San Rafael, California, law firm was spearheading Amador v. California Culinary Academy, a putative class…
Sep 3, 2015 8:30 AM CDT
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Dilworth Paxson will keep its New York office open although there will be no lawyers there after the departure of three partners last month and the planned exit of an…
Sep 3, 2015 7:12 AM CDT
With hack attacks a fact of daily life, law firms need to be doing more to protect themselves against cyber breaches, experts say.
Those with 500 or more attorneys should…
Sep 2, 2015 5:05 PM CDT
Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has acquired a seven-lawyer intellectual property litigation firm based in Reno, Nevada.
The acquisition of boutique firm Watson Rounds expands Brownstein’s IP group to 30…
Sep 2, 2015 1:30 PM CDT
Rejecting a recommendation by an advertising subcommittee, the Florida Bar’s board of governors has OK’d the use of cellphone text messages for advertising law firm services to prospective clients.
Florida…
Sep 2, 2015 12:30 PM CDT
A former deputy general counsel in the FBI says a hacker from China apparently accessed his computer.
The lawyer, Marion “Spike” Bowman, is a lecturer on national security law at…
Sep 2, 2015 6:15 AM CDT
A Virginia attorney who reportedly stole from his law firm was sentenced Tuesday to serve four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $160,647 to his former employer.
Tony…
Sep 1, 2015 4:40 PM CDT
Making Hay the Nonprofit Way
Sep 1, 2015 8:45 AM CDT
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Salt Lake City attorneys Shantelle Argyle and A. Daniel Spencer. Photograph by Benjamin Hager.
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In 2013, a deal on immigration reform seemed imminent in Congress. So imminent, in fact, that law enforcement in California started noticing an uptick in immigration law scams.
Sep 1, 2015 6:45 AM CDT
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When Chicago attorney Jill Metz started practicing as a solo attorney in the early 1980s, she decided she would always make time to do pro bono work.
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Sep 1, 2015 6:35 AM CDT
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Jill Metz. Photograph By Wayne Slezak.
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Paulette Brown lets you know what she thinks, her friends say. And if she supports you on something, they add, you can count on having a smart, strategic, loyal and…
Sep 1, 2015 6:30 AM CDT
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Paulette Brown. Photograph by Marc Hauser.
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At a rather small table in a large hotel conference room, five pioneers in new legal services met with the
ABA Journal in May. Someone suggested the Las Vegas gathering…
Sep 1, 2015 6:10 AM CDT
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From left: Daniel Lewis, Victor Li, Mark Britton, Kingsley Martin, Jack Newton, Reginald Davis and Michelle Crosby. Photographs by Jeff Green Photography.
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