Nader “Unlawful Litigation” Suit Against Kerry-Edwards Shot Down Again
The Legal Times Blog reports that a US district judge has dismissed Ralph Nader’s latest attempt to prove he was the…
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Caroline Kennedy — Celebrity? Or Qualified Senate Candidate?
Political commentators and legal experts are debating the qualifications of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy to fill the role of US Senator…
Tech Company Wins Trial, Refuses to Pay Lawyer
After defeating a lawsuit backed by powerful Hollywood studios, Sunnyvale's Kaleidescape has fired its lead trial lawyer and is refusing…
Two Thirds of Law Firms Expect Lower 2009 Revenues; 51% to Terminate Staff
Two-thirds of all US law firms expect lower 2009 revenues, although the economic harm to date has mostly hurt large…
Thacher Proffitt Is No More; Fourth Biglaw Collapse This Year
Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the 160-year-old New York-based law firm, will close forever. The subprime crisis slashed demand for its…
States Halting Jury Trials to Save Per Diems
From Page One of today's Los Angeles Times: The economic storm has come to this: Justice is being delayed or…
Obama Closer to Choices for DOJ
The list of candidates for Barack Obama's Department of Justice picks get shorter every day. Rumor says that David Odgen…
Madoff Liquidator Joins Baker Hostetler
From the WSJ Law Blog: Irving Picard, who last week was tapped to liquidate the now-infamous Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities…
Update: UM Law School Student in Sex Scandal Speaks Out
We posted last week about the University of Michigan Law School student who tried her hand at prostitution, and was…
Quinn Emanuel Rewards High Billers
Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has announced its 2008 associate bonuses: The firm will be paying bonuses…
Woman Gives Away “Cure for Cancer,” Sues to Get It Back
I love Above the Law's Lawsuit of the Day. Whether its the guy who wrote off his girlfriend as an…
How Should Law Firms Deal With a 0% Attrition Rate?
From Bruce MacEwen's blog: An unspoken, and certainly uncelebrated, aspect of the law firm associate personnel model is built-in attrition.…