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September 17, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

For corporations looking for lawyers, it's a buyer's market, so they can be picky about who gets in-house legal jobs.

By KATHERYN HAYES ALM Media

4 minute read

February 07, 2011 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In-house counsel can and should do more to protect their companies from criminal liability, both as gatekeepers and as "agents for change," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Lanny Breuer said recently.

By SUE REISINGER ALM Media

3 minute read

May 09, 2011 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The need for pro bono legal services is immense and growing, but it is not enough to simply ask for more volunteers. The crisis in the courts and the precipitous drop in resources for legal services, combined with increased demand for legal assistance, have changed how we must approach pro bono legal services.

By ESTHER F. LARDENT ALM Media

4 minute read

February 25, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In three key business rulings handed down last week, the Supreme Court continued its trend toward freeing companies from the conflicting regulation of 50 different states in favor of one federal regime.

By TONY MAURO/ALM Media

3 minute read

May 17, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Steven Belcher was defending a wrongful-death case in 2006 when he had a bad idea. Belcher, then a temporary attorney at Paule, Camazine Blumenthal in St. Louis, e-mailed a photograph of the overweight deceased, lying naked on an emergency room table, to a friend, along with his own lewd and disparaging commentary.

By TRESA BALDAS ALM Media

7 minute read

October 17, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Budget pinching has prompted federal court clerks' offices across the country to curtail public hours of operation, with at least one Mississippi clerk's office shuttered to save money, according to a survey by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

By Pamela A. MacLean ALM MEDIA

2 minute read

November 21, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a move aimed at boosting service to clients in the financial services and life sciences industries, Reed Smith has opened a Paris office with four partners from the Paris firm Rambaud Martel.

By Gina Passarella ALM MEDIA

2 minute read

November 14, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is creating a nonequity partner tier, removing its status as one of the few national firms with a single partnership model.

By Kellie Schmitt ALM MEDIA

3 minute read

February 13, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

In what could eventually strike a major blow to corporate managers' control over elections of their directors, the SEC has dismissed petitions from United Technologies and Honeywell International to reject shareholder election measures offered by one of the largest labor unions and institutional shareholders in the U.S. At issue is the prevailing "plurality voting" system, which allows the candidate receiving the most votes to win, even if a majority of shareholders withheld their votes for the seat.

By Ron Orol ALM MEDIA

3 minute read

March 13, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Saul Ewing is the latest area firm to join in a spate of salary raises kicked off by DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, raising its associate salaries by $10,000.

By Gina Passarella ALM MEDIA

3 minute read