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June 05, 2008 |

Small and midsize firms debate strategic plans

Small and midsize law firms often reject the idea of crafting a multiyear strategic plan, even though legal industry consultants say the plans can boost firm profits."Of those that plan, nearly 90 percent can attribute enhanced profits to their planning process," said John Remsen Jr., a consultant based in Atlanta who doesn't provide such planning services, but has surveyed firms with between 75 and 100 lawyers on the topic.
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June 05, 2008 |

Should Small and Midsize Firms Create Strategic Plans?

Small and midsize law firms often reject the idea of crafting a multiyear strategic plan, even though legal industry consultants say the plans can boost profits. "Of those that plan, nearly 90 percent can attribute enhanced profits to their planning process," says consultant John Remsen Jr. For most firms, the plans map out how and to what extent the firms will expand, which practice areas will be core strengths, what profits goals will be and how compensation for individual attorneys will be determined.
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May 05, 2008 |

Chicago public defender faces dismissal

Officials for Cook County, Ill., will soon decide whether to fire for the first time ever the county's public defender. The Cook County Board of Commissioners will consider a resolution calling for the ouster of Public Defender Edwin Burnette at a May 7 hearing after Democratic Board President Todd Stroger moved to dismiss Burnette earlier this year. Stroger charges Burnette with mismanagement, but Burnette says the move is payback for a lawsuit he brought against Stroger over staff cuts.
4 minute read
December 31, 2008 |

Blagojevich's move to fill U.S. Senate seat with Burris may trigger more litigation

Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's naming of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama may lead to more litigation, Illinois attorneys said. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said the Senate won't seat a Blagojevich appointee, and Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has said he won't certify one.
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November 18, 2011 |

7th Circuit denies FedEx's petition against judicial panel in cases over driver classification

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has denied a mandamus petition brought by FedEx against the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. At issue was the panel's remand to their original courts of a dozen cases brought by FedEx drivers seeking to be classified as employees.
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January 21, 2009 |

Winstead associate to lead microfinance nonprofit

Winstead associate Barrett Howell has been elected president of The Plan Fund, a Dallas-based nonprofit, micro-finance lending organization. Also in our new associate moves column: new arrivals, promotions, and the latest associates to make partner.
7 minute read
November 13, 2006 |

State bars push back on waivers

State bar associations are jumping into the roiling debate over the attorney-client privilege-waiver issue triggered by the U.S. Department of Justice's Thompson Memorandum.
3 minute read
August 12, 2008 |

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.
2 minute read
October 29, 2007 |

List of lawyers in race for top prosecutor's job

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago is up for grabs and more than a few lawyers in town are gunning for the job. The race has been heating up ever since State's Attorney Richard "Dick" Devine announced in August that he wouldn't seek another term in the November 2008 election.
3 minute read
May 12, 2008 |

Illinois debates convening for constitutional review

Illinois lawyers and politicians are picking sides outside political party lines over whether the state should hold a convention that might lead to a rewriting of the state's constitution. The question will be put to a statewide vote this November because the current constitution ? the product of an overhaul in 1970 ? gives residents a say on a convention every 20 years if legislators don't call for one in that period.
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