Leigh Jones

November 18, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Leigh Jones

5 minute read

April 10, 2009 | The Recorder

A lawsuit brought by a former AutoAdmit chief education directory survived a challenge by Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley and other defendants.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read

November 30, 2009 | National Law Journal

Investment firms see litigation funding in the United States as an area ripe for them to put their dollars. A few are offering a broader scale of funding for larger commercial clients.

By Leigh Jones

8 minute read

April 15, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A decimated job market has turned the tables on top law graduates, who not long ago were in high demand at big law firms. But a group of students from some of the best schools in the country sees power in numbers.

By Leigh Jones

5 minute read

August 10, 2009 | Law.com

A former client of Motley Rice claims that the South Carolina law firm botched his malpractice case against another law firm that handled his divorce. Attorney Denis Ventriglia alleged in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that plaintiffs class action firm Motley Rice was inexperienced in pursuing legal malpractice claims and itself committed legal malpractice in his case against North Carolina divorce firm Reid, Lewis, Deese, Nance & Person. Call it a case of legal malpractice times two.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read

December 27, 2010 | National Law Journal

Some lawyers and judges found themselves in big trouble this year. Strippers, bribes, phony billings and prostitutes were a few of the career cripplers for jurists and practitioners in 2010. We've highlighted some of the low points.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read

April 20, 2007 | The Recorder

With more firms opting for mandatory retirement policies, many lawyers are preparing for life after law.

By Leigh Jones

7 minute read

July 28, 2006 | Law.com

As nearly 50,000 law school grads tackled the Multistate Bar Examination this week, they may have faced the dreaded multiple-choice question that seems to have two correct answers. While the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which designs the bar exam, employs mainly law professors, attorneys and judges to draft the test, critics say it bears little relationship to the practice of law. But bar examiners say they pay painstaking attention to the test, knowing how much is riding on the results.

By Leigh Jones

7 minute read

November 22, 2006 | The Recorder

More in-house departments are luring away big names, which leads to even more firm attorneys defecting.

By Leigh Jones

7 minute read

January 23, 2008 | National Law Journal

The first few weeks of 2008 already have marked an abundance of lateral hires among partners making a switch for better opportunities -- or so they hope -- at some of the nation's biggest law firms. So far the areas of practice for lateral hires are across the board, though movement in bankruptcy and finance already look particularly active. In one of the more prominent switches, DLA Piper has recruited William Goldman from Sidley Austin to join its restructuring and bankruptcy practice group in New York.

By Leigh Jones

3 minute read