Nov 19, 2012

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Legal briefs: Additions for Sidley Austin, PepsiCo
Washington Post
Dora Hughes, an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is joining Sidley Austin as a senior policy adviser in the law firm's government strategies group. Hughes, who is not a lawyer, served as counselor for science and public ...
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National Security Law Practice Launched In Washington, DC
Sacramento Bee
Its experts include former senior officials in not just the White House, but also Dept. of Defense, CIA, Dept. of Labor, and within top corporate and law offices. Firm leadership includes Joseph E. Fluet, Jennifer S. Huber, Francis Q. Hoang, Hugh P ...
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Refco Lawyer, A&O, Mayer Brown, Skadden: Business of Law
Businessweek
Jurors convicted Collins, formerly with the Chicago law firm Mayer Brown LLP, on seven counts after a retrial on charges he helped Refco Chief Executive Officer Phillip Bennett and other executives defraud investors of $2.4 billion. Collins was granted ...
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Law firm in trouble over inflated bills
Independent Online
Johannesburg - A Pretoria-based law firm is being investigated for allegedly defrauding a government entity of more than R1 million. This comes after a forensic audit by Ntumba and Associates into the affairs of the Pan South African Language Board ...
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Law firm Donaldson Walsh in spat over divorcee's $4.12 million legal bill
The Australian
Law firm Donaldson Walsh in spat over divorcee's $4.12 million legal bill. by: Sean Fewster; From: The Advertiser; November 19, 2012 10:30PM. Increase Text Size · Decrease Text Size · Print · Email · Share · Add to Digg · Add to del.icio.us · Add to ...
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On the Docket Pittsburgh: 11/19/12
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh-based construction law firm Dingess, Foster, Luciana, Davidson and Chleboski (DFL Legal) and three of its named partners have been recognized by U.S. News and World Report as among the report's "Best Law Firms" and "Best Lawyers" of 2013.
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Local attorneys win a $12.6 million fraud verdict against a large firm
Akron Legal News
Lawyers are officers of the court, and thus have a legal duty not to counsel or assist a client in conduct that they know is illegal or fraudulent. A recent decision illustrates just how costly it can be for lawyers when a jury determines that they ...
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Proceedings | Highlights from the WSJ.com Law Blog
Wall Street Journal
Former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP bankruptcy heavy hitter Bruce Bennett has billed the Los Angeles Dodgers nearly $13 million for the defunct law firm's work on the team's Chapter 11 case. Mr. Bennett filed the final legal tally Tuesday with the U.S ...
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E-discovery's tipping point: In or out?
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Litigation support services departments in law firms -- now largely tasked with helping attorneys manage the e-discovery needs of clients -- are at a crossroads. To invest or divest. Some firms are doubling down and investing millions in e-discovery ...
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People in the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jerry Pappert has joined the commercial litigation group of Philadelphia law firm Cozen O'Connor. He also will work with Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, a bipartisan government-relations firm. Formerly, Pappert was executive vice president, general ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
What's in a name? At Daley & George, it's Mara
Crain's Chicago Business
The long-influential law firm of Daley and George Ltd., headed by former Mayor Richard M. Daley's brother Michael, is dissolving, with the other name partner, Jack George, agreeing to join another law firm. But Michael Daley, nearing 70, is not ...
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Legal Malpractice Case Against Akin Gump Revived
The American Lawyer
In a reversal, the Fourth District Court of Appeals in San Antonio ruled on November 14 that Riverwalk Cy Hotel Partners could move ahead with negligence and breach of fiduciary duty claims against the law firm it hired in 2005 to help develop a hotel.
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Nelson Mullins poaches 10 lawyers from Cetrulo & Capone
Boston Business Journal
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has added 10 attorneys from crosstown law firm Cetrulo & Capone, as part of its ongoing expansion in the city, the law firm announced Monday. Nelson Mullins has brought a total of 16 news lawyers on board in ...
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Eversheds ramps up Middle East offering
AME Info
Global law firm Eversheds, named recently as one of the fastest growing law firms in the UAE by Asian Legal Business, has announced a series of appointments and secondments as the firm continues its rapid Middle East expansion. The firm has bolstered ...
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Reminder: Middlesex Sheriff's Office warns of phone scam
Wicked Local
It involves a man falsely claiming to work for the Civil Process Division of the office. In the scam, the man allegedly claiming to be a Middlesex Sheriff's Office deputy working on behalf of group named "American Cash" and with an out of state law ...
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New Partner at Maynard, O'Connor, Smith & Catalinotto
Saugerties Post Star
Alexander L. Stabinski, Esq., of Sprakers, New York, was named a partner in the Albany law firm of Maynard, O'Connor, Smith & Catalinotto, LLP, effective January 1, 2013. The firm, located at 6 Tower Place in Albany, New York, with additional offices ...
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Senior Civil Litigation Solicitor
The Independent
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Solicitor with strong General Civil Litigation experience, to join a thriving Wiltshire / Hampshire law firm at a senior level, with a view to rapidly progressing within the firm. This role has terrific ...
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Law firm expands with local attorney from Greensburg
Westmoreland County Times
GREENSBURG, PA — Peacock Keller, a full-service law firm headquartered in Washington, Pa., expands its civil litigation group with the addition of a new associate, Eric D. Harbison. Mr. Harbison will concentrate his practice on coal, oil, gas, shale ...
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Survey: UK firms keen to outsource core services
The Global Legal Post
Top UK law firms are increasingly moving towards outsourcing key services such as litigation support and document drafting, research released today shows. Belfast: fishing for outsourced work. Related stories. Game changers · Tech company buys second ...
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Breaking down the boundaries of business and law
Financial Times
First, many of the law firms' clients are corporations; second, that legal services firms need to be better managed; and third, the abilities of lawyers and managers are complementary. While lawyers scrutinise the detail and understand regulation ...
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Paul Crowley and Co named Best Property Law Firm for second year running
Click Liverpool
Just last month, the firm was highly commended at the Law Society Excellence Awards 2012 in the category of Lexcel Award for Excellence in Practice Management. Senior Partner Paul Crowley said: "We are absolutely thrilled to have won this award again.
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Click Liverpool
Big firms edge small for billions of dollars in awards
Washington Post
Sometimes contracting officers are "spread so thin'' that it's easier for them to buy from larger companies that they know, said Holly Roth, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a Los Angeles-based law firm that specializes in government contracting.
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Five questions with … Guy E. Flynn
Baltimore Sun
Last month, global law firm DLA Piper announced that partner Guy E. Flynn would become the chair of the firm's Maryland real estate practice. Beginning next year he'll also be named partner-in-charge of the firm's downtown office (DLA Piper also has a ...
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Baltimore Sun
Residential Property Conveyancing Lawyer
The Independent (blog)
... property conveyancing solicitor or experienced legal executive / licensed conveyancer with a minimum of two years good quality experience of general residential property and domestic conveyancing matters to join a friendly high street law firm in ...
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FMC is going global through a mega-merger
Lawyers Weekly
The magnitude of the firm is also significant. "This is not a surprise move," said Warren Bongard, president and co-founder of ZSA Legal Recruitment in Toronto. "What is a surprise is the sheer size of the move. Three major powerhouses have combined." ...
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Lawyers Weekly
Logging the South East Forests - Part 9 - Environmental Defenders Office
ABC Online
Individuals and activist groups concerned about the environmental impact of logging often access legal advice from the NSW Environmental Defenders Office. The EDO is a community legal advisory service on issues of environmental law. Legislation ...
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Global onslaught to slow down
Lawyers Weekly
A consultant who has quizzed global law firms believes 2013 will see the brakes put on the expanding Australian legal market. Last week, strategic communications consultancy Pier Advisory released the first tranche in a wide-ranging survey of 57 ...
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Before they walk out the door
Lawyers Weekly
While one-on-one relationships are the backbone of a lawyer's business, law firms need to take a high-level view of client service. It's critical to get regular and frank feedback from clients. In his book The Ultimate Question, Harvard business ...
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Lawyers Weekly
New Report Reveals Increase in Child Abuse in Schools
IBB Solicitors (blog)
A major report – Safe from Harm – released today by West London law firm IBB Solicitors and undertaken by legal research company Jures looks at the effectiveness of the legislation that was introduced to protect children in the wake of the murders of ...
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Indybay Refuses to Bow to Demand to Remove Vallejo Copwatch Post
Bay Area Indymedia
Attorney David E. Mastagni of the Sacramento law firm Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller & Johnsen has demanded that the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay) remove a post by Vallejo Copwatch. It is unclear on whose behalf the ...
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FHA Change to Impact FHA Refi Biz - Ouch!; CFPB Postpones One January ...
Mortgage News Daily
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced new guidelines for the management of law firms. On November 9, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced new, coordinated requirements with respect to the management of law firms for default servicing, ...
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Is being a franchisee better than being independent?
Chicago Daily Herald
Even so, Garry's question is interesting. A Chicago office partner at SmithAmundsen LLC, a law firm with offices in St. Charles and Woodstock — plus Rockford, St. Louis and Milwaukee — Garry is a franchise veteran. Advertisement. So is Doris Adkins ...
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Bucks & Montgomery County business achievers, Nov. 19
phillyBurbs.com
Established in 2001, the award honors someone who has contributed to Pennsylvania school law and the common good of Pennsylvania public schools. Sweet, of counsel to the law firm of Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams LLP, is an authority on education ...
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Appointments round-up
Insider Media
Birmingham-based law firm Anthony Collins Solicitors has expanded its local government team with the appointment of Ben Smith as associate. Smith, who specialises in procurement, regeneration projects, compulsory purchase and highways law, joins from ...
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Women's Initiatives in BigLaw Are Abundant and 'Woefully Underfunded,' Report ...
ABA Journal
Are the efforts working? According to a new report (PDF) by the National Association of Women Lawyers, 97 percent of large law firms surveyed have such initiatives, but many of the programs lack the funding and targeted goals needed to make a difference.
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Tax Fight Over $65 Million
Courthouse News Service
Millennium Chemicals, Millennium America Holdings and Millennium Holdings LLC sued the New York City-based law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, partner Richard A. Wolfe, Hanson Building Materials, HBMA Holdings LLC and Lehigh Hanson ...
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Police union backs Miller; Limbaugh has support, too
Southeast Missourian
Citing his experience in the office and an established relationship with law enforcement, the union representing Cape Girardeau police officers has endorsed Frank Miller to become the next county prosecutor. The Cape Girardeau Police Officers ...
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Leading Threats of Asbestos in the 21st Century · Nationally ...
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While the manufacturing of asbestos products became more restricted in the mid 1970s, the dangers associated with asbestos exposure have not ended. Inhalation of asbestos fibers is the only known cause of mesothelioma, a rare type of ...
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TX: No sanctions for Law Firms for Frivolous Litigation : Legal ...
By Ben Wasserman
Yuen v. Gerson, 342 S.W.3d. 824 (Tex. App. 2011) TX: Civil procedure; sanctions Student contributor: David Yanoff Facts: Gerson represented Paul Law i.
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Business without Borders | Leveraging Southeast Asia's role in law
By Shibani Mahtani
Now, Mr. Wong is a principal at Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow—a joint law venture between Baker & McKenzie and Wong & Leow LLC, a Singapore law firm—advising on crucial business decisions including mergers and acquisitions, ...
Business without Borders
ISBA convenes committee to discuss law school debt problem ...
By Christina Stueve Hodges
He boldly suggested downsizing curriculum to two years, followed by working for a year at a law firm instead of the traditional three-year law school program. "Take the third year out," he said. "You're not going to tell me that you can't pass the ...
Madison Record
New Rangers Plc Director Linked to Harper MacLeod – Exclusive ...
By Paul McConville
Of course the crazed fantasy web of conspiracy spun by Rangers supporters has meant that anyone with even a tenuous connection to the Glasgow Law Firm is viewed by blue fanatics as an enemy and person of interest and subjected to vile ...
Random Thoughts Re Scots Law...

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Final Slides from Law Practice Management Class « Virtual Law ...
These are the slides from my final session for a Wake Forest Law School course on law practice management this fall. I taught the course online and used a virtu ...
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