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Record-keeping initiative tracks Dupont legal department's revenue
It pays to keep score. At least it does at DuPont, where the legal department launched an initiative five years ago to closely track its recoveries — matters in which the company successfully brought in cash or other assets as the result of a dispute. The company announced this week that its Legal Recoveries Initiative has generated nearly $1.2 billion in recoveries since it started in 2004.Fish & Richardson discloses layoffs of lawyers, technology staff
Fish & Richardson disclosed layoffs and departures of 49 lawyers and technology specialists — nonlawyers with scientific or technical expertise who work on patent matters — in the past three months.View more book results for the query "*"
50 face axe in Howard Kennedy redundancy plan
Howard Kennedy launched a 30-day redundancy consultation Thursday that could affect up to 20 fee earners and as many as 30 further support staff. The review will be carried out across the firm, but the property department could be most at risk given the slowdown in the market. News of the consultation follows two negligence claims filed against the firm last year, for $4.7 million and $3.4 million respectively. Both claims related to advice the company gave clients in regard to property deals.Seyfarth's Thomas Howell named ABA general counsel
Seyfarth Shaw attorney R. Thomas Howell Jr. is set to become general counsel for the American Bar Association Aug. 20. He replaces Darryl DePriest, who resigned as ABA general counsel last year.Sharp 10-year rise in prison time for federal offenders, but alternative sentencing takes a dive
The rate at which federal offenders are being sentenced to prison time has increased by 10 percentage points in the past 10 years — from 75.4% to 85.3% since fiscal year 1997 — while the use of alternative sentences, such as probation and probation with confinement, has decreased over the same period.Trending Stories
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