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December 26, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Scholarship awards, it turns out, aren't an especially efficient way to identify and recruit outstanding minority law students for long-term employment. At best, scholarships help firms brand themselves as minority-friendly, enabling law firms to promote themselves and their diversity efforts to minority law students and laterals.

By Dimitra Kessenides ALM MEDIA

9 minute read

August 01, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

The O'Fenders, a Delaware Valley band composed mostly of lawyers, flew three-quarters of the way around the world, with guitars and keyboards in tow, to perform for the U.S. troops on the island of Diego Garcia.

By Monica Giannobile ALM MEDIA

4 minute read

February 20, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

What do smaller plaintiffs firms do for money while awaiting contingency fees? Some are turning to a fast-growing sector of lenders that make subprime loans against a firm's caseload or a trial verdict on appeal. There is a price: Such companies typically charge double-digit interest rates or double-digit percentages of resulting contingency fees. But for some attorneys, the benefits are worth the cost.

By Alison Frankel ALM MEDIA

6 minute read

September 12, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Much of the New Orleans legal community is in shambles following the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. Attorneys and staffers at some law firms were still unaccounted for last week, and office buildings and courthouses - and the documents inside - remained soaking under water.

By Leigh Jones, ALM MEDIA

4 minute read

March 13, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Hiring partners don't mention it, would-be associates won't touch the subject and law schools would rather avoid it altogether. But the possibility of failing the bar exam is a reality for tens of thousands of law graduates each year. And it's getting worse.

By Leigh Jones ALM MEDIA

8 minute read

December 26, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Hundreds of other court employees went beyond the call of duty to get to their jobs on the first day of a transit strike by New York City subway and bus workers, while most major law firms hired shuttle vans and car services to bring in lawyers and essential support staff.

By Daniel Wise ALM MEDIA

5 minute read

September 12, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

With New Orleans' electricity expected to be out for at least a month, judges of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have decided to relocate to the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse in Houston for about two to three months and then to Baton Rouge for an indefinite period.

By John Council, ALM MEDIA

3 minute read

December 12, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Cherry Hill-based Flaster Greenberg has crossed the bridge to open up an office in Philadelphia, part of the firm's continued effort to expand geographically.

By Gina Passarella ALM MEDIA

5 minute read

December 26, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

No doubt about it, leaders of Am Law 200 firms are upbeat about the future. Eighty-nine percent of respondents to The American Lawyer's annual firm leaders survey said they are optimistic about 2006.

By Brenda Sandburg ALM MEDIA

10 minute read

January 30, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Associates Tracy Richelle High, of Sullivan & Cromwell, and Kieran Batts Morrow, of Morrison & Foerster, are obviously at ease striding through New York City's corridors of power. But when their novel FAB hit the bookstores, colleagues got a glimpse of how the two friends might spend their after hours.

By Denali K. Dasgupta ALM MEDIA

4 minute read