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June 29, 2009 | National Law Journal

THE MIDSIZE HOTLIST

The Midsize Hot List includes 20 law firms — selected from a flood of nominations — that demonstrate exemplary innovation in practice management, fee arrangements, attorney recruitment and retention, and business development, especially in the face of current economic challenges. These firms have shown particular agility in adapting their practices to the recent changes in the legal services market. They range in size from 50 to 300 attorneys and are located across the country.
21 minute read
October 22, 2007 | National Law Journal

Smaller firms, big changes

Even as the number of large firms continues to multiply and as rumblings grow louder of yet another first-year associate salary raise among the profession's giants, smaller firms may well lie at the forefront of big changes in the profession. Some midsize firms have recently implemented drastic reductions to their billable-hour requirements for first-year associates in order to enhance training and to appease clients who are increasingly resistant to paying for new lawyers' starts and stumbles.
6 minute read
November 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

MOVERS

UPDATE: Cooley Godward Kronish has formed a government contracts practice with the addition of two partners from DLA Piper.
5 minute read
January 25, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Doesn't Blanch From Certifying Peroxide Class

A price-fixing conspiracy is illegal - even if prices actually dropped during the alleged conspiracy - if the plaintiffs can show that the goal of the conspirators was not to raise prices, but to prevent them from dropping at the rate they would have in a healthy, competitive market, a federal judge has ruled.
5 minute read
August 12, 2008 | Law.com

Another Law Firm Drops Summer Associate Program

Arnstein & Lehr is the latest Chicago law firm to say it will abandon its summer associate program next year, explaining that the difficulty of estimating its hiring needs two years in advance so it can extend some of those associates job offers is more trouble than the program is worth. The news follows Barnes & Thornburg's recent announcement that it would cease its summer associate program in Chicago.
2 minute read
November 30, 2009 | National Law Journal

The next wave

Commercial bankruptcy attorneys are about to get even busier. Despite some recent positive data, there are signs that commercial chapters 11 and 7 filings are likely to accelerate — oddly enough — even as the economy appears to improve.
7 minute read
July 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

MOVERS

Parham H. Williams, dean of Chapman University School of Law, announced his upcoming retirement from the position. He will continue as dean for the upcoming academic year while a search for a new dean is conducted.
6 minute read
February 14, 2005 | National Law Journal

A reform's fate rests in federal courts

Class action restrictions�one of three top tort system changes sought by President Bush and the nation's business community�will likely be enacted into law now that the Senate has approved them, but their ultimate impact on plaintiffs and defendants will rest with individual federal judges.
9 minute read
January 24, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Doesn�t Blanch From Certifying Peroxide Class

A price-fixing conspiracy is illegal even if prices actually dropped if the plaintiffs can show that the goal of the conspirators was not to raise prices, but to prevent them from dropping at the rate they would have in a healthy, competitive market, a federal judge has ruled.
3 minute read
August 18, 2008 | National Law Journal

Another summer program cut

Arnstein & Lehr is the latest Chicago law firm to say it will abandon its summer associate program next year, explaining that the difficulty of estimating its hiring needs two years in advance so it can extend some of those associates job offers is more trouble than the program is worth. The announcement comes on the heels of Barnes & Thornburg's decision to discontinue its summer associate program in Chicago.
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