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When To Reinvent A Law Firm

A “corporate health test” devised by health insurer Aetna to address problems with its customer base and a rapidly changing […]

Survey Shows Conflicting Views Of In-House, Law Firm Attorneys

A survey from the International Association of Defense Counsel finds that corporate legal departments and their outside counsel have inconsistent […]

Non-Lawyer Firm Ownership Considered In ABA Resolution

A resolution floated by the American Bar Association’s Commission on the Future of Legal Services is meant to develop guidelines […]

Breaking Up Ninth Circuit ‘Judicial Gerrymandering’

The effort to break up the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is an effort by conservatives to split […]

Small, Powerful 40-Year Old Washington Firm

Its clients have included some of the most famous defendants of our time, among them Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Enron, the Salt […]

Lawyers Who Launder

An undercover sting by a group called Global Witness secretly recorded a dozen New York lawyers who suggested ways to […]

Why Obama’s Gender-Pay Disclosure Rule Misses The Mark

Huffington Post writer Emily Peck cites a Harvard economics professor who says it doesn’t address the main issue…

Hackers Swipe Legal Closing Funds

By intercepting emails between lawyers and their clients, hackers are stealing closing funds. The scheme has worked in at least […]

Suit Upending Law Firm Debt Collection

A federal judge has ruled that a law firm handling a debt collection could be held liable for damages, even […]

Big Data Will Change Case Preparation

Initially, the Big Data trend hit the legal market with services focused on billing, time management, marketing and customer service […]

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