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US Legal Market Lost 7000 Jobs in 2008

According to the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs…

The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of…

This morning's top stories: The Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished Judge Ellen Yacknin for soliciting support from an attorney…

Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position, is rejoining Atlanta-based law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge as of counsel. The last…

Clifford Chance has launched a redundancy program in its London headquarters, with the Magic Circle firm set to cut up…

Last March, prominent US human rights lawyer Emanuel Zeltser drank a cup of coffee in a London cafe. The next…

Anonymous sources are telling Above the Law that their 2009 paychecks are identical to their 2008 ones -- with no…

Deaf Dog & The Indictments is the world's only (almost) all-judge band (the one non-judge is a PhD, so it's…

The New York state Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished Judge Ellen Yacknin for soliciting, from the bench, support from…

This morning's top posts: Baker & McKenzie is firing six of its New York associates, as a result of the…

New York's Chadbourne & Parke has poached John A. Squires from Goldman Sachs, where he was chief intellectual property counsel.…

Steven J. Reisman, a partner in New York's Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, has been appointed to investigate allegations that…