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Successful Bar Candidates — February 2010 Bar Examination
Notice to the bar.Getting Fired: Don't Deal With the In-House Counsel and Deal With It Publicly?
Heaven forbid, IF you get fired, don't talk with the in-house counsel and deal with it in a public manner? Uh oh, that's not what an in-house lawyer wants to hear ...3rd Circuit Gives Victory to Banks
In a major victory for banks, a federal appeals court has ruled that borrowers can be compelled to submit their claims to arbitration even if they wanted to bring a class action under the Truth in Lending Act and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act.Bar Prep Co. Ordered to Pay $11.9M for Copying Multistate Exam Questions
In a ruling that promises to alter the way many American law students prepare for the bar exam, a Pennsylvania federal judge has concluded that a California company illegally copied questions from the Multistate Bar Examination for use in its preparation courses and ordered it to pay more than $11.9 million to the National Conference of Bar Examiners. In the suit, NCBE claimed that employees of Multistate Legal Studies Inc. have attended bar exams in several states for the sole purpose of copying questions.Circuit JudgesTo Focus on 3LsFor Clerk Hiring
By implementing the new arrangement, judges are saying that the hiring of law clerks after students complete the first year of law school is an unacceptable practice. Law clerk recruiting will be conducted no sooner than the fall of the third year of law school, according to Edward Becker, chief judge of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and co-chairman of the ad hoc committee that put forth the plan.Opt-Out Plaintiffs Must Pay Class Lawyers
A federal judge has ruled that plaintiffs who "opted out" of a class action antitrust case to pursue their own claims must set aside a percentage of any settlement or judgment they win to compensate plaintiffs' lawyers who worked on the case for more than five years. The ruling is a huge victory for the lead counsel in a class action brought by buyers of corrugated paper products that accused paper manufacturers of conspiring to decrease production and thus drive up prices.Staving Off Attacks on the Stacks
County law libraries across New Jersey are falling victim to a space squeeze. But not in Bergen County, where for Assignment Judge Sybil Moses libraries are "indicative of a civilized society," and "at the top of my agenda." Accordingly, one of Moses' first acts as assignment judge was to move the old library to a more accessible place, expanding its size and hours of operation.Trending Stories
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