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The Recorder

Should You Always Counter a Job Offer?

The offer stage is often likened to a chess match: Watching. Waiting. Thinking. And strategically assessing your “opponent's” moves … as well as your own. It can be a maddening period for both candidate and employer.
4 minute read

The Recorder

On Appeals: The Appellate Tiger's Tail

Irena Hauser applied to the County of Ventura for a permit allowing her to keep five tigers in her residential backyard near Malibu. After all, what could possibly go wrong? What went wrong in the Court of Appeal was that she was stalked by the presumptions favoring respondents on appeal, formidable beasts in the best of circumstances.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Outdated Partner Comp Plans Are an Obstacle to Growth

The old models of partner compensation are increasingly keeping firms from the client-focused culture needed to succeed today.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Special Master Delays High-Stakes Report on $75M Class Action Fee Request

A special master looking into potential overbilling in a $75 million attorney fee request has delayed the findings of a report he said could have “serious and far-reaching adverse ramifications” for plaintiffs firms in the case and “for the practice of the plaintiffs' class action bar.”
4 minute read

The Recorder

Social Media Divorces—5 Things to Avoid Posting During a Divorce

In recent years, with the surge in the use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, married people's activities on these sites have either become the cause of divorce or been used as evidence in divorce cases.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Legal-Mal Experts Weigh In on Alston & Bird Trial Strategy, Outcome

Lawyers following the trial talk about their perspectives on what the case means—and the open questions that remain.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Landmark UK Case: Companies May Be Liable for Subsidiaries' Human Rights Abuses

Recently, a landmark United Kingdom case has made it clear that U.K.-based parent companies may be found liable for human rights violations committed by their foreign subsidiaries. Plaintiffs all over the world are filing lawsuits seeking to hold parent companies responsible for the extraterritorial conduct of their subsidiaries.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I am being conflicted out of a personal injury case. I have requested the client go to a good friend of mine who is an excellent lawyer to represent him in the personal injury case. May that lawyer pay me a one-third referral fee, assuming the client does not object?
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Who Owns What? Responding to Requests for Client Files

A question many practitioners may face is who “owns” the documents and other material made and stored during the course of a representation: the client, the attorney or the attorney's law firm?
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In the Wake of Another Mass Shooting, Is It Time to Amend the Constitution?

In the latest public school massacre 17 people—students and teachers—were killed when a former student, armed with an AR-15 rifle opened fire at a high school on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14.
7 minute read

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