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Fast Forward: 2005 M&A Is Already Off and Running
Last year's mergers and acquisitions business was good -- very good. If interest rates and the stock market continue to play along, 2005 is expected to bring even more work for the law firms that handle the deals. Experts anticipate more activity in private equity midmarket deals and in technology and health care sectors. And if January is any indication, merger activity this year could be a record breaker.Legal Training Looks at New Directions in Response to Recession
For the eighth year in a row, members of the legal training and professional development community converged on Washington, D.C., this month for their annual pow-wow, the NALP Professional Development Institute. This year, the faltering economy created a greater sense of urgency among attendees. In contrast to prior years' gatherings, which often focused on improving the performance of individual lawyers, the guiding principle this year was industry transformation.Trial Technology Saves Last Man Standing
In October 2006, Gary Swanson, an executive with Hynix Semiconductor, was charged with joining a criminal conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory industry. The right trial technology made Gary Swanson, the last man standing in this litigation, a free man.Empirical Forensic Model: Conjectures and Refutations
Timothy M. Tippins, a consultant and special counsel in contested custody cases, and Jeffrey P. Wittmann, a trial consultant, write that recent months have seen a number of responses to criticisms that have been lodged against the practice of custody evaluators offering "best interest" opinions. They address the rationalizations offered in defense of that practice.Southern District Civil Practice Roundup
Edward M. Spiro, a principal of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, writes that judges from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York have recently devoted an unusual degree of attention (much of it very critical) to conduct of attorneys that often goes unexamined and that many attorneys may not recognize as potentially problematic.'NLJ 250' Shows Strong Law Firm Growth Continuing
The 250 largest law firms in the U.S. grew by 4 percent in 2006, a figure that was just shy of the prior year's gains, according to The National Law Journal's 29th annual survey. The results indicate a "healthy legal economy" spurred by strong mergers and acquisitions activity and big-ticket litigation, said one law firm consultant. And while law firms used to base their mergers on geography and size for size's sake, they now take a much more strategic approach, said another consultant.Trending Stories
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