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Women Seeking Work/Life Balance Getting Faces Slapped With Cold Water
They graduated in the year when female enrollment at law schools was at its height. They were supposed to infiltrate the top echelons of the legal profession and leave their mark. Instead, a majority of the women of Harvard Law School '93 have opted out of the fast track.Lateral Hiring Increases at Big-Tex Firms
Laterals are hot property in Texas -- it seems that many firms want to grow by adding experienced attorneys rather than by training freshly-minted J.D.s. Take Houston-based Andrews Kurth, for example. "We get about twice as many lawyers laterally than from law schools," says partner and strategic committee co-chair Geoffrey Walker.Winners All Around: Pro Bono Hours Rise Despite Fewer Lawyers at Large Firms in Texas
Despite having fewer average full-time equivalent lawyers in 2011 compared to 2010, the 18 firms sharing pro bono information for their Texas lawyers donated more hours than the previous year. Sylvia Mayer is chairwoman of the pro bono committee at Weil, Gotshal's Houston office.IPO Boom Keeps Am Law Corporate Practices Humming
A roundup of the deals and dealmakers at the center of the current uptick in initial public offerings.Leviton sues firm for $100 million in damages
Greenberg Traurig was sued for more than $100 million in damages over allegations that it failed to properly prosecute patents for an electronics manufacturing client.Field of Candidates Seeking Texas Supreme Court Seats Expands
In the span of two weeks, two justices on the Texas Supreme Court announced their retirements. But it just took a few days after each of those announcements for a stack of suitors to announce their candidacies for the spots now occupied by Republicans Harriet O'Neill and Scott Brister (pictured).Stanford Trial Drags Former Proskauer, Chadbourne Partner Back into Spotlight
Jamaican Prime Minister: I OK'd Hiring Manatt, but Party Paid
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding admitted for the first time this week that he authorized hiring Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby U.S. officials in connection with an extradition dispute involving an alleged drug kingpin that has strained relations between the two countries and resulted in an ethics complaint against the firm. Golding contended, however, that it was his ruling Jamaica Labour Party, not the Jamaican government, that hired and paid Manatt -- despite the firm's continuing insistence to the contrary.Trending Stories
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