Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, the lobbying affiliate of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, has added Brian P. Woolfolk as a principal with SSPA and as of counsel of the firm.
Woolfolk is the co-founder of boutique lobbying shop Mattox Woolfolk. He also previously served as Democratic counsel on the House Judiciary Committee. In that role he provided [...]
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In 2001, the Medicines Company just missed the application deadline for a patent extension for its main product, Angiomax, a blood thinner. Because of this error, the patent on the product will expire next week instead of in 2014.
And, because sales of Angiomax account for virtually all of Medicines’ revenue, the company has spent millions [...]
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They went from BigLaw to the Big House. Now the four former partners in Millberg Wiess Bershad Hynes & Lerach (now Millberg LLP) who pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to clients are out and trying to move forward.
A report today in BusinessWeek gets us reacquainted with Melvyn Weiss, William Lerach, David Bershad and Steve Schulman. The quartet, [...]
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Let me start by saying that I get it: the economy is bad and finding work can feel next to impossible, even if you have phenomenal experience, great academic credentials and have worked at some of the best firms in town. Having said that, I have to admit that I am little surprised at the [...]
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Undoubtedly, most of my conversations with candidates involve whether or not they will be able to find a job in 2010 — and how today’s market compares to 2009/2008. The going commentary is that the first 8 weeks of 2010 have been markedly more active than 2009 (which was essentially a flat-line on the associate [...]
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I suppose it’s possible that I haven’t had enough caffeine today, and it’s making me cranky, but after I read this story about the e-mail flame sent by an NYU B-school professor, I found myself siding with the professor.
http://deadspin.com/5477230/nyu-business-school-professor-has-mastered-the-art-of-email-flaming
A student apparently complained to the professor by e-mail–upset that he wasn’t able to attend a class [...]
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Every year in January, I do all sorts of goal setting. I set goals for what I am going to do over the next year. I do this in a lot of ways, but sometimes I dig out old tapes and CD programs I have accumulated throughout the years and listen to them to get [...]
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Interpersonal skills decide the direction of your career. Success at interviews, success in finding mentors and support, success in gaining the faith of your coworkers and, and your success in dealing with people both internal and external to your organization are all directly influenced by your interpersonal skills.
Successful senior lawyers are the best examples to watch and follow while trying to develop your interpersonal skills. Good lawyers inevitably emerge as winners in interpersonal encounters by using both speech and body language to their maximum effect. In interpersonal encounters, body language counts a lot and may have more influence upon the listener than the words in your speech.
It does good to remember that humans communicated with each other through gestures, eyes, touch, facial expressions, postures and personal looks even before speech was invented. Body language is so well ingrained into our genes that most of us are unable to recognize what research suggests - more than half of the meaning attached to messages in interpersonal communications is through body language.
Question: I am a second-year associate and was laid off from my job in March 2009. Since then, I have focused my time on finding a new job. I am completely open in terms of geography and have applied to a number of jobs in different states. I finally secured an interview with an out-of-state firm, and while I am excited at the opportunity, I am not sure how to address the fact that I am not yet barred in the state. What do you recommend?
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Networking and Your Job Search
Are you an attorney or law student who has just started your job search or is interested in transitioning to a new job? If you are, then don’t forget to include networking as part of your job search.
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If you’re trying to find the perfect legal job, there’s probably something you don’t know. Before you start searching, you need to enlist the best legal job search tool in the world: Legal Authority.
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