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November 14, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

The justices hear arguments about Scott Fitz Randolph, a disbarred Georgia lawyer arrested when police - with his wife's consent but not his - searched their home and found a straw containing cocaine residue.

By Scott Simonson ALM MEDIA

6 minute read

November 07, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers are like opera singers - sometimes they can be just a little too fond of their own voices. So it's not surprising that a novel technology known as "podcasting" has caught the imagination of a few lawyers who are particularly fond of their vox advocatus. Some of these folks are even worth listening to.

By Eriq Gardner ALM MEDIA

5 minute read

February 20, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

A dip in the number of securities fraud class actions filed between 2004 and 2005 has had the media buzzing over the reasons and implications.

By Petra Pasternak ALM MEDIA

2 minute read

February 06, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Runaway costs for a legal education are threatening to trample any optimism among law school graduates created by recent associate salary increases at the nation's top law firms. Law school tuition is bounding far ahead of pay raises at firms of all sizes.

By Leigh Jones ALM Media

10 minute read

September 05, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A casual observer of the legal scene might think that attorneys on the payrolls of private firms have entertained the thought of hanging out their own shingles - as solo practitioners, or at least in concert with a frustrated comrade or two. But according to three separate national surveys conducted in 1997, 2002 and this year, few lawyers would actually take that particular plunge. And the number of the willing has dwindled dramatically over the survey period.

By Thomas Adcock, ALM MEDIA

6 minute read

March 13, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Politics often leads to unexpected alliances, but few relationships are as peculiar as the recent coalition that's linked the American Civil Liberties Union with a host of corporate groups.

By Sue Reisinger ALM MEDIA

4 minute read

December 12, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Gibbons Del Deo Dolan Griffinger & Vecchione has expanded its Philadelphia by acquiring a civil litigation boutique, Hecker Brown Sherry & Johnson.

By Gina Passarella ALM MEDIA

5 minute read

August 22, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A suit filed by a former Blank Rome associate demonstrates the gray areas that can emerge when bad conduct comes from big clients.

By Leigh Jones, ALM MEDIA

6 minute read

November 21, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

An annual survey of America's biggest companies finds a familiar group of law firms at the top

By Tamara Loomis ALM MEDIA

7 minute read

August 15, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A unique study of nonunanimous juries - based on videotapes of 50 real civil jury trials and deliberations - finds that some panels give short shrift to dissenting jurors.

By Leonard Post ALM MEDIA

4 minute read