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You Have To Kill It With a Stick

In-House attorneys and law firms agree that the billable hour has outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any, but […]

25 Firms With the Most Patent Law Professionals

Dennis Crouch at Patently-O ranks the top 25 firms with the most registered patent law professionals, and comments on how […]

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Expected Increase In Legal Malpractice Claims

A Georgia attorney with a legal malpractice specialty reports that malpractice carriers are expecting to see a claims uptick. Historical […]

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DHS Official To In-House Lawyers: Don’t Be “Risk-Averse” About Reporting Cyber Attacks

Too many in-house counsel yield to an “ingrained, cultural risk aversion” and fail to report cyber attacks, says a senior […]

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Mass Exit From Twitter In-House Legal

More than half of Twitter’s recent legal team, including several senior attorneys, have refused to commit to Elon Musk’s hardcore […]

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Dentons Loses Again. Is The Verein Model At Risk?

The Ohio Supreme Court has, for the second time, declined to hear an appeal from law firm Dentons (specifically, from […]

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Spouse Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Lax Recusal Rules

A post from Politico makes a case that the current ethical rules for the U.S. Supreme Court are woefully deficient, […]

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ADA “Shakedown” Lawsuit Dismissed In CA

A lawsuit filed earlier this year by the district attorneys of Los Angeles and San Francisco accused a San Diego […]

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Balancing The Inside-Outside Equation

Legal recruiter Christine Berger takes up a perennial question for young law firm attorneys: Will I be better off ditching […]

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Dark Money Said To Fuel Supreme Court Amicus Briefs

An article in Politico looks at what the writer says amounts to a dark money lobbying campaign by the National […]

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