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• Bankruptcies Up 34 Percent; Lawyers Observe Health Care Cost Impact

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  The number of federal bankruptcy cases is up more than 34 percent for the 12 months ending Sept. 30—the end of the federal judiciary's fiscal year—than it was for the prior 12 months, according to statistics released today. Business filings are up 52 percent over 2008 (58,271 from 38,651) while [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:07pm EST
  

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• Candid Comments from Casey Anthony’s Lawyer: ‘Do That Barack Obama Thing’

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  A death-penalty lawyer on Casey Anthony’s defense team had some candid comments about death penalty closing arguments in an Orlando appearance last year. Lawyer Andrea Lyon talked about pro death-penalty “killer” jurors, and how lawyers can appeal to those who are willing to spare their client by using emotional words [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  

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• The Cost of a Law Firm Layoff: Multiply Senior Lawyer’s Salary by Five

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  Law firms are laying off lawyers with an eye toward cost savings. But Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli says there are also costs associated with a “brain drain” and they can amount to about five years’ salary for the layoff of just one senior lawyer. Speaking in an interview with [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

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• Florida Bar Investigating Four Lawyers from Rothstein Firm

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  The Florida Bar is investigating four lawyers from the dissolved South Florida firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler amid an investigation into an alleged $1 billion Ponzi scheme by name partner Scott Rothstein. Rothstein has voluntarily surrendered his law license. Now the bar is investigating four other RRA lawyers, according to the [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:12am EST
  

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• 9th Circuit Upholds Ban on Class Actions by Legal Aid Lawyers

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  A federal appeals court has upheld restrictions on legal aid lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp., including a ban on filing class actions. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the rules, enacted along with LSC budgets each year since 1996, in an opinion on Monday, [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:47am EST
  

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• Judge Warns Lawyers for Blackwater Defendants About Single Spacing

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  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has put lawyers for five Blackwater Worldwide contractors on notice that their failure to double space won’t be tolerated. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina wrote in a short notice filed on Monday that the lawyers submitted a legal memorandum in single-space type, according to [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:25am EST
  

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• What In-House Counsel Want: Relationship Building and Quick Answers

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  Sometimes legal costs aren’t the most important thing to in-house counsel selecting their outside lawyers. In-house lawyers also want law firms that are willing to take the initiative to build the relationship, according to a National Law Journal report on a recent panel discussion in Boston. The panel at the [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

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• A Peek at the New BusinessWeek

  —Gary Weiss

  Somebody sent me a Bloomberg story that ran today on Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general and a rising star in the Democratic party, describing how Cuomo took cash from lawyers with business before his office.
  
  It's a great piece, and it occurred to me that this kind [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:30am EST
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• Defendant Argues Law Firm’s YouTube Video Amounted to Defamation

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  A company accused in a class action lawsuit of selling a dietary supplement that doesn’t live up to its memory claims has turned the tables on the plaintiffs’ firm, claiming its lawyers gave interviews and posted a YouTube video with defamatory statements. On Friday, the class action defendant, Brain Research [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:34am EST
  

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• Oral Argument in Wesley Snipes Case

  —White Collar Crime Prof Blog

  Previously granted oral argument (see here), lawyers for Wesley Snipes appeared in the 11th Circuit this past week to argue the case. A report of the argument sounded like it was a "hot" bench with questions regarding the venue and... [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:47am EST
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• Jury Says Philip Morris Must Pay $300M to Longtime Smoker

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  A jury in South Florida says Philip Morris USA must pay $300 million, including $244 million in punitive damages, to a 25-year Benson & Hedges smoker who argued that the cigarette company committed fraud by concealing the dangers of smoking from her. Lawyers for Lucinda "Cindy" Naugle, who is a [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  

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• Judge Scolds Lawyers for Document Blizzard: ‘You Wouldn’t Do This to a Jury’

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  U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell has endured 25 days of testimony in Oklahama’s pollution case against the poultry industry, but it’s the blizzard of paperwork that is really fraying his nerves. On Thursday, the Tulsa judge scolded a group of about 30 lawyers in Oklahoma’s case for blanketing him with [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

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• Law Departments Cut Costs by Squeezing Law Firms, Freezing Staff Pay

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  Companies are trying to cut their legal budgets, and it’s affecting in-house lawyers whose salaries are frozen and outside law firms asked to reduce rates and offer alternatives to hourly rates. Alternative fees have been touted as the up-and-coming way to reduce outside legal costs. But law departments are trying [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

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• Struggling South Florida Divorce Lawyers Offer Discounts, Accept Credit Cards

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  Business is off by as much as 35 percent for some South Florida divorce lawyers, spurring discounted rates and creative payment plans. The economy is forcing many lower-income couples to put off divorce, lawyers tell the Miami Herald. Sometimes a couple can’t afford to live independently, or one spouse relies [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:09am EST
  

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• Unemployed NY Lawyers Could Benefit from London Firm’s Outsourcing

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  Eight of London’s top law firms are considering outsourcing some of their legal work, and another eight already send some legal work outside. But the news isn’t all bad for lawyers. Allen & Overy’s contract with Integreon for document review sends some of its work to India—and some to New [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:39am EST
  

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• NU Law Dean Adjusts ‘Super Lawyers’ Rankings to Reflect Law School Size

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  A new ranking of law schools by the Super Lawyers magazine admittedly didn't take into account the number of graduates. And class size does matter, according to Northwestern University School of Law Dean David Van Zandt. So he has reconfigured the rankings, which are based on the number of Super' [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:25pm EST
  

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• Judge Jails 2 Attorneys for Contempt in 4 Days

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  It may not be a good time for Georgia practitioners to try the patience of Matthew Simmons, the chief judge of Clayton County Superior Court. Within two business days he has jailed two lawyers for contempt in unrelated cases, according to a Daily Report article reprinted in New York Lawyer [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:21pm EST
  

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• Ex-Clerk Was Reluctant to Tell Scalia She Went Into Entertainment Law

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  Tara Kole graduated from Harvard Law and went on to clerk for the 9th Circuit's Alex Kozinski and then U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia—but she didn't expect those creds to necessarily help her break into entertainment law. "Entertainment boutiques just don’t hire new lawyers," Kole told Bitter Lawyer. But' [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:19pm EST
  

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• Google Offers Legal Research for the Average Citizen—and Lawyers, Too

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  Updated: Google has announced it is adding a new search function that will find full-text legal opinions from federal and state courts. Users can go to the Google Scholar online search engine and type in case names, topics or key words to find the relevant cases. “We think this addition [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:12am EST
  

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• Testimony: Fed’l Judge Owed $150K on Credit Cards, Got $20K from 2 Lawyers

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  A federal judge in Louisiana racked up $150,000 in credit card debt, largely to cover his gambling, as he routinely solicited cash and gifts from lawyers appearing before him, witnesses told a House Judiciary Committee task force today in an initial step toward possible impeachment of the jurist. But one [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:51pm EST
  

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• New Guide Aims to Help Would-Be Public Interest Lawyers Evaluate Law Schools

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  A new online publication is aimed at filling a void in existing law school rankings by tailoring its information to would-be public interest lawyers. The Equal Justice Works Guide to Law Schools has information on the percentage of graduates in public service jobs; public interest field placements and clinics; and [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:54pm EST
  

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• Five Questions for Law Firms Abandoning Lockstep Compensation

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  Law firms abandoning lockstep compensation need to consider how they can make the change without sabotaging the morale of lawyers who aren’t the firm’s stars. The morale issue is one of several questions that an increasing number of firms will have to consider as they make the change, according to [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  

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• Deluged with Information? Here Are Some Tips for Streamlining the Flow

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  A deluge of information is distracting many lawyers from the important work on which they need to focus. But there are ways to reduce the information overload. Among them: Delegating initial e-mail review to others and doing nonessential reading on the train to and from work, explains the Law Firm Partnership [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:12pm EST
  

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• Lawyer Who Wrote Voting Law Sues & Collects, as Gov’t Officials Steam Over $4.3M Won

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  Only one legal group in California is suing to enforce the state's unique voting rights law. And a key attorney in that group helped draft it and get it enacted. This is aggravating officials of several governmental entities from which the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco' [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:31pm EST
  

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• Misconduct By 3 Sekhon Firm Lawyers Puts Up to 700 Clients in Peril

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  Sekhon & Sekhon claimed a 95 percent success rate concerning more than 1,000 immigrants that the law firm helped to win political asylum in the United States. But now up to 700 could be deported because they lied to immigration judges and asylum officers after the law firm and interpreters [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:10pm EST
  

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• Sotomayor Asks 11.2 Questions Per Argument, Outpacing Roberts in 2005

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  The court’s newest justice isn’t shy or apologetic in her questioning of lawyers during U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. During the court’s second two-week cycle of arguments, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked an average of 11.2 questions per argument, more than Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the same point [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:45am EST
  

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• Breaking News: William Jefferson Sentenced to 13 Years

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  Guest Blogger: Tiffany M. Joslyn, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III has sentenced ex-congressman William Jefferson to 13 years in prison for his conviction on 11 counts of public corruption. See breaking news... [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:13pm EST
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• Law Firm Loyalty Is Sometimes Overrated, Consultant Says

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  Loyalty to a law firm is laudable—to a point, a consultant says. Lawyers also need to consider loyalty to clients, their families and themselves, according to Frank D’Amore, founder of the legal recruiting firm Attorney Career Catalysts. These allegiances are more important than loyalties to a law firm that is [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:46am EST
  

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• Law Firm Informant Points Finger at Lawyer for Other Lawyers in Pension Cases

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  A lawyer representing other lawyers in an ongoing probe of New York pensions being paid to attorneys who alleged did government legal work as private practitioners while being reported as state employees may himself have a dubious claim to his more than $120,000-a-year pension. Citing claims by an unidentified confidential [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:56pm EST
  

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• Despite Downturn, Top UK Lawyers Make Mega-Money

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  Although the economic downturn has lightened the wallets of even the highest-paid lawyers, many are still bringing home seven-figure paychecks. Among the top London-based BigLaw firms, partners made about 20 percent less in 2008-2009 than the previous fiscal year, reports the London Times. But they still earned an average profit [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  

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