Getting Work At Attorney Firms In order to make sure that you make the most out of your career, it is important to make sure that you are getting the right education. Why settle for a lower paying, less respected job in the legal field when you could be a lawyer at one of the top law firms in the United States? All you will need is a couple of additional years of schooling which will more than pay for... (1 views)
Seattle Law Firm Escrow Agent Faces Theft Charges The Shim Law Firm in Seattle was reeling after one of their employees was charged with embezzling over $825,000 from the firm. The Seattle police department arrested Heather ''Veronica'' Pak, 41 and charged her with 114 counts of theft in relation to funds that were designated for The Shim Law Firm. Pak was employed by The Shim Law Firm from June 2008 to October 2009. (1 views)
The End of an Era - Coming Soon The blawgosphere is buzzing today with stories about Justice Stevens, after sources close to him told CNN that he will announce soon whether or not he is retiring, and that he wants to step down while President Obama is still in the White House. (1 views)
Winter 2010 State of Market Report Southern California (Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles) The Northeast (New York, Washington, DC, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) The Southwest (Texas) The Midwest (Chicago, Wisconsin, Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, and Utah) International (Europe and Asia) (1 views)
Putting the Gears Back In Your Career Legal staff working long and loyally at the core of their firms is regularly affected by career stagnation. Some seem to be aware of it, some unaware, but mostly the situation is created on part by employers who might be taking you for granted, and on part by yourself in resisting the prospect of change, or fearing to open a dialogue on your own career. (1 views)
Law Firm Serves Up Notice to Hospital for Radiation Exposure The Cabell Huntington Hospital, located in West Virginia, is coming under intense scrutiny over claims that several patients had been exposed to radiation levels that were higher than normal during CT scans. (1 views)
Homeland Security Announces Temporary Protected Status to Haitians In the aftermath of the earthquake on January 12th that killed thousands of Haitians and left millions homeless, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary, announced that Haitians who were in residing in the U.S at the time of the earthquake in Haiti will be granted an 18-month amnesty. (1 views)
Botched Ohio Execution Spurs Actions for Mandatory Training of Prison Officials In court filings, attorneys for several inmates on death row argued that if prison officials were properly trained, the botched execution of Romell Broom in Ohio on September 15, 2009 could have been prevented. (1 views)
Muslim Groups Proclaim Body Scanners Violate Islamic Law The Fiqh Council of North America, a Muslim group of Islamic scholars has proclaimed that airport body scanners are a violation of Islamic law and have issued a ''fatwa'', a religious ruling, to all Muslim travelers. The group claims that the airport body scanners would be in violation of the Islamic rules that dictate modesty. (1 views)
The Misinformation Super Highway There are three things I miss about the 80's. 1) The music 2) Judicial Nominees getting a floor vote and 3) News outlets that weren't so pressed to provide minute by minute updates and took the time to research and verify stories before going to press. (1 views)
Charting Your Career Track: Tweak Your Scientific Attitude to Get Results It's a basic flaw in our education that while we are taught the great importance of culturing a scientific attitude from early on, we are rarely taught where to pull a rein and accept things on faith. The legal system too, at every turn, desires proof ''beyond reasonable doubt.'' (1 views)
Supreme Court Ruling Could Affect Bankruptcy Practices The Supreme Court today released its decision in MILAVETZ, GALLOP & MILAVETZ, P. A. v. UNITED STATES, viewable at http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1119.pdf. (1 views)
Rapper Faces Music Over Weapons Charges Rapper, Lil' Wayne has been sentenced to one year in prison for charges that arose from an incident in 2007 outside of the Beacon Theater in New York City. According to police, Dwayne Carter, aka Lil Wayne, was arrested after a .40 caliber pistol was discovered on his tour bus. (1 views)
Applying ''Citizens United'' to the States In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case, overturning federal campaign finance laws that prohibited corporations from running political advertisements, a group in Montana is challenging that state's ban on corporate political advocacy. (1 views)
Obama v the U.S. Supreme Court After President Obama publicly scolded the Supreme Court in his State of the Union Address, the blogosphere went crazy for a few days arguing about decorum, tradition, and the independent judiciary. (1 views)
Funny Money and Portly Porteous Louisiana federal judge, Thomas Porteous from New Orleans has just joined the elite club of the only 13 federal judges to be removed by impeachment in U.S. history, raising the number to 14. (1 views)
Salt Lake Lawyer Violates Pre-Trial Conditions Related to Fraud Charges A Salt Lake City lawyer will stay in prison for violating terms of his pre-trial release. In July Attorney, James Hector Alcala, was indicted on charges of visa fraud and conspiracy charges. (1 views)
How Unhealthy is the Health-Care Bill? The Health-Care Bill is sure hot topic nowadays, and very touchy, so I try to tread carefully and toe the Chicago line for that is the proper thing to do, apparently. However, if the line bites my toe, a kick can be reflexive, don't blame me, it's healthy reflex, not conscious action. (1 views)
More Regulation Please How often do industry lobbyists ask the federal government for more regulation? More often than you might think. (1 views)
Recess Time! Article II Section 2 of the US Constitution reads ''The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.'' (1 views)
When Can The ''End'' Justify The ''Means?'' This is an extremely important question of law. I do not care playing partisan to any kind of politics. However, substantial questions of law concerning our civil rights cannot be ignored just because politicians are already debating them. Actually, the political debate is now over, the Health Care Bill is now law, and the judicial debate has just started, making the new... (1 views)
Man's Best Friend Abandoned to Fate! I was surprised, hurt, and concerned by the recent judgment of a three-judge Commonwealth Court Panel in Pennsylvania that ruled against making the service dog of a disabled person eligible for food stamps. (1 views)
Comcast v FCC The very fact that you're reading this tells me two things about you : 1) You're interested in the law and 2) You use the internet. Over the next 20 years, those two things are going to mesh and collide in interesting and important ways. (1 views)
The ''If'' and ''Then'' to Rattle Your Brain Now, this isn't strictly an article for your career in the sense that it will help you to make job searches. However, this is certainly going to help you in your career if you happened to have teachers as I did, and missed all the fun in law studies. (1 views)
It's no laughing matter... At the Supreme Court today, the Justices heard a case involving text messaging on a device provided by a government employer. The background of the case, while both interesting and salacious, isn't particularly relevant to this discussion. What's troublesome about this case is the apparent lack of tech savvy displayed by the members of the Court and the implications that... (1 views)
Better Late Than Never: 122 Years after His Death, Lawyer Joins the Allegheny County Bar! On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously admitted George Boyer Vashon to the bar, 153 years after his application was turned down on racial grounds. (1 views)
Sunshine In an increasingly rare bipartisan fashion, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed several measures designed to bring greater transparency to the federal legal system last week. Most prominent among them were two bills that would permit cameras in federal courts. (1 views)
Advise and Consent ''The President . . . shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint…Judges of the supreme Court.'' So says Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. Article II, Section 2 of my employee's handbook says that when the President of the United States nominates someone to fill a vacancy on the Court, I must talk about... (1 views)
Freedom v. Intolerance ''Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity in exclusion of all other religions may establish, with the same ease, any particular sect of Christians in exclusion of all other sects?'' - James Madison (1 views)
PA Legal Jobs: Finding the Right One You have been educated, you are specialized and you are ready to work so you are searching for PA legal jobs. Legal jobs are not totally recession proof however even if the economy slows, the law still rolls onward and depending on the area of specialization and the job type, legal jobs in PA can be found. Finding the right job in a tight job market is the trick and the... (1 views)