Workplace Discrimination Remains Strong In an ideal world, we would have reached a point in the modern workplace where discrimination issues no longer exist. However, as evidenced by the ongoing need for agencies such as the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Labor Department, this is far from true. (5 views)
Backdating stirs up controversy Companies consistently backdate stock option grants, which may cost shareholders hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the findings of a recent study. (5 views)
Lawyer managed firms To illustrate lawyer managed firms, I offer two opposing essays from the ABA Journal on the question of whether huge law firms are bad news. One commentator, Peter Megargee Brown, titled his essay, "Yes: Greed Is the Bottom Line." Against him, two legal consultants named Jack Kaufman and Bradford W. Hildebrandt wrote an essay entitled, "No: Big Clients Need Big Firms." My... (4 views)
Hiring in United States Legal Field Predicted to Remain Strong According to information in the May 23rd lawyersweekly.ca.com article, ''Law firm hiring up: Experts say law firms are starting to hire staff again'', a new report by the National Association for Law Placement, (NALP) Inc., in Washington, D.C., reveals that most of the factors gauging the legal employment market's strength for new lawyers, including law firm recruiting... (4 views)
Private Sector Subsidies for Graduates The economy is improving, law firms are reporting increases in revenue and profits, unemployment is falling, but the legal sector still managed to shed 2900 jobs in February. Even accounting for the implosion of Howrey eating into the lateral market and costing staff jobs, it's tough not to view this as an example of large and highly profitable law firms trying to squeeze... (4 views)
Virtual Law? In a recent pod cast sponsored by Catuongo Court Reporting, the LegalTalkNetwork interviewed attorney Stephanie Kimbro of Kimbro Legal Services. Ms. Kimbro is a legal practitioner licensed in North Carolina that operates a complete ''virtual law firm.'' The idea of virtual business is as commonplace as buying the latest novel via our Kindles, making a dinner reservation or... (4 views)
Legal Sector Loses 300 Jobs In October; Is David J. Stern To Blame? A new release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that the amount of jobs in the legal sector fell a third of a percent. The reports of losses of legal sector jobs come after three months of an upward trend of job growth in legal services. (4 views)
Career in the Law Consider an unusual career in law. Television networks enhance a glamorous stereotype of the legal profession in such programs as Law and Order, Family Law, and The Practice. However, television networks-and movie production companies as well - take this perception to extremes in such sitcoms as Ally McBeal and Ed, and such movies as The Firm. These same productions stress... (4 views)
The Right to Receive Humane Legal Assistance Lawsuits often deal with the most intense, sensitive matters of your life, and yet lawyers and law firms are as cold as ice and judges act like they don't care if you live or die. Your friendliness or good intentions won't necessarily warm up the situation, either. (3 views)
Legal Hiring To Rise First Quarter of 2011 According to a quarterly survey from Robert Half Legal Hiring Index, just over 30 percent (31%) of respondents are claiming that they will be adding jobs during the first quarter of 2011. That number is versus the one percent of those questioned who plan to decrease their legal staff. (3 views)
Loughner Deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial On Wednesday, US District Judge Larry Burns determined Jared Loughner to be mentally unfit to stand trial for the 49 federal charges against him, which stem from a January Tucson shooting that left six dead and 13 wounded. (3 views)
Drug Companies and ''Off-Label'' Marketing Recently, pharmaceutical companies have come under fire for allegedly employing a practice known as ''off-labeling,'' whereby they persuade physicians to prescribe drugs for reasons other than the drugs' developed purposes. As a result, Congress has launched an investigation into the practice, class-action suits have been filed, and large settlements have been reached. (2 views)
Law School Applications Fall By 11.5% Back in 2009, the American Bar Association released a report that said, ''The rising cost of a legal education and the realities of the legal job market mean that going to law school may not pay off.'' (2 views)
Attorneys and “Financial Reform” – Something Wicked This Way Comes According to the November 11th theatlantic.com article, ''Lawyers Cashing In on Banks' Misdeeds and New Regulation'', it's observed that, essentially, the mortgage crisis and the resulting financial reform ad nauseam has, and will continue to throw a wealth of business attorneys our way. (2 views)
Legal Jobs In Trouble Or On The Up? Jobs in the legal sector are beginning to improve, according to James Ross, a Capital Region Labor Market Analyst. In June of this year, 3,000 jobs were lost in the legal sector. In July, there was a more than two thirds dip in jobs lost, with only 800 legal sector jobs being cut, including paralegals and lawyers. (2 views)
Justice sans Juries When we hear the word "trial," most of us imagine a courtroom with a judge sitting on the bench and twelve jurors sitting in the box deciding who will win the case. (2 views)
401(k) Fee Suits on the Rise Following the surging trend of employees filing lawsuits against their employers, employers have yet another reason to be wary: 401(k) plans. Recently, fees associated with 401(k) plans have come under close scrutiny and are resulting in mounting lawsuits against small and large corporations alike. (1 views)
Legal Jobs Fall Again In March According to a preliminary draft of the monthly employment report out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Legal Sector saw yet another decline in jobs, after February’s whopping loss of 2,900 jobs. (1 views)
Just how bad was 2009? We all felt the pain last year. For some of us it was declining home values and loss of equity, for others it was lost jobs or reductions in salaries, and for some it was lower profits. (1 views)
Legal Sector Takes Hit in February; Remains Somewhat Steady Year-to-Year According to the February monthly employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal sector saw a net loss in jobs throughout the month. The report shows that 2,900 legal jobs were lost during the month of February, which overshadows January's numbers which showed a humble gain of 500 jobs in the legal sector. (1 views)
How Does 2012 Measure Up for GCCs? I remember an article I read in 2007, where the vice president of Hughes & Sloan Inc had commented, ''For corporations looking for lawyers, it's a buyer's market, so they can be picky about who gets in-house legal jobs.'' 2007 was when the economy had suddenly realized and sullenly admitted that it was already in the depths of an acute recession. (1 views)
The 2001 Golden Monkeys: Law-Related Television The Emmys, the Golden Globes, People's Choice, Humanitas, MTV, ALMA-everyone else has television awards. We figure lawyers and law students deserve some, too. As the 2000-2001 TV season fades to black, we present the first annual Golden Monkeys. (1 views)
What a New Survey Says about Women in Law Equality in the workplace is perking up in the legal industry, according to the 2012 Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for Women. Though the people behind the survey are still hoping firms will meet "critical mass" they are pleased that the stats are heading in the right direction. (1 views)