Leigh Jones

January 13, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Associates at several big law firms across the country welcomed the new year with hefty bonuses that were moderately higher than the year before, a reflection of the legal industry's recent prosperity.

By Leigh Jones

6 minute read

September 29, 2009 | Law.com

This is the year the recession hit the legal profession. Lawyers and support staff were cut by the hundreds. Law firms went belly up. Court dockets burst with foreclosures and bankruptcies while budgets everywhere went bust. Buried under the statistics are those most affected by it all: the overworked judge, the unemployed paralegal, the laid-off associate and the law firm manager. The National Law Journal talked to people across the profession to find out how the downturn changed their lives.

By Karen Sloan, Leigh Jones and Jeff Jeffrey

18 minute read

September 07, 2000 | Law.com

Joining a growing number of courts around the country, a judge in Nassau County, N.Y., has ruled admissible at trial a type of DNA, mtDNA, in a case of first impression in the state. mtDNA lasts longer than the nuclear DNA usually presented as evidence, but is also less accurate in making identifications.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read

December 02, 2003 | New York Law Journal

H. Patrick Leis III sat among a few unpacked boxes in his new office last week at the Cohalan Court Complex. A trim, wiry fellow with a strong handshake and a sharp gaze, he was just three days on the job as incoming administrative judge in charge of Suffolk County's 78 judges.

By Leigh Jones

5 minute read

July 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

Although the nation's largest law school saw the end to one protracted legal battle earlier this year, it now has another court fight on its hands that alleges nepotism involving a Michigan appeals court judge who sits on its board of directors.

By Leigh Jones / Staff reporter

9 minute read

September 28, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Elisa Garcia realizes that no amount of two-for-one coupons or meat lovers' specials will ever turn her law department at Domino's Pizza Inc. into a money-making operation. Instead, the best that she can hope to do as general counsel is to control costs.

By Leigh Jones

7 minute read

June 15, 2006 | Law.com

The associate salary war has spread from the coasts to the middle of the United States, with law firms boosting starting pay to stay competitive in a market where demand is mounting and the supply of top-notch first-years is waning. Though Midwest law firms aren't matching the $135,000-plus salaries of the big firms on the East and West coasts, some, such as Denver-based Holme Roberts & Owen, are raising salaries by 17 percent, to $105,000, to stay competitive with national firms with local outposts.

By Leigh Jones

7 minute read

September 22, 2005 | New York Law Journal

An annual survey conducted by Shearman & Sterling tracking corporate governance practices among the nation's top public companies has found that while the independence of most directors continues to exceed the standard set by industry regulations, those individuals serving on corporate boards are earning more.

By Leigh JonesThe National Law Journal

4 minute read

June 10, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Leigh Jones

5 minute read

July 20, 2005 | Law.com

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, like many firms that have grown rapidly, is looking to cultivate leaders to take the helm for the next generation of law firm workers. To do so, DLA Piper and other firms are partnering with top universities to create management training for current leaders and attorneys who show promise. Some programs last a day, others longer, but whatever the structure, there is little doubt that most attorneys need business training that legal education doesn't provide.

By Leigh Jones

7 minute read