Leigh Jones

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

April 26, 2004 | Law.com

A judge has found that an attorney did not waive the privilege of protected speech afforded those who bring actions before the New York Grievance Committee when she told a third party that such a proceeding was pending against a fellow attorney. But disclosing details about the grievance matter does waive the privilege, making them actionable under a defamation claim, said Supreme Court Justice F. Dana Winslow of Nassau County.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read

February 09, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Houston's 14th Court of Appeals has freed Proskauer Rose from a tax shelter case in which the plaintiff is prominent Houston trial attorney George M. Fleming. Reversing a lower court ruling, the 14th Court determined that the 164th District Court did not have jurisdiction over the New York-based firm in a suit brought by Fleming.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read

May 18, 2000 | Law.com

Nassau County, N.Y., Court Judge Paul Kowtna was arrested Thursday in connection with the stabbing of his wife. Mary Gail Kowtna was stabbed twice in the back with a kitchen knife; she was reportedly in stable condition.

By Leigh Jones

2 minute read

August 11, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Call it a case of legal malpractice times two. A former client of Motley Rice claims that the Mount Pleasant, S.C., law firm botched his malpractice case against another law firm that handled his divorce.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read

September 11, 2003 | Law.com

Even though E. David Woycik Jr. traveled just one state away from his New York office when he was called to active duty earlier this year to serve with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, he might as well have been on the other side of the world, as far as his private law practice was concerned. And he's only one of many lawyers serving in the armed forces, struggling to do their duty to both their country and their clients.

By Leigh Jones

5 minute read

August 19, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Leigh Jones | The National Law Journal

5 minute read

November 21, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Like many firms, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has recently added attorneys to its foreign practices and, in turn, is boosting its efforts to maintain 24-hour operations where lawyers, legal secretaries, paralegals, technical support and security personnel fill in the gaps in the wee hours.

By Leigh Jones

6 minute read

June 21, 2007 | Law.com

Harvard and Columbia law schools are boosting their faculties, and that's making things rough for other schools.

By Leigh Jones

6 minute read

May 10, 2006 | Law.com

With the 2006 hurricane season fast-approaching, law firms in the target zone are gearing up for what could be a ferocious few months, setting up off-site recovery centers to protect e-mail, accounting systems and access to data. Before the Sept. 11 terror attacks and last year's hurricanes, says one attorney and consultant, "you had these bedrock assumptions that at least your building would still be there." Firms should expect to spend up to 10 percent of their annual budgets on disaster plans, he says.

By Leigh Jones

6 minute read