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September 07, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Commentary — The Reptile Brain: Develop a Cognitive Sixth Sense

Why do we do what we do? The answer, says Michael P. Maslanka, can be found in the "reptile brain." How our brains developed thousands of years ago illuminates the whys of our actions today, he says. Cognitive research and evolutionary biology tell us a lot about human motivation, and the information is useful to lawyers now.
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June 09, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Gossip Blogs Bedevil Law Firms

Many renowned law firms have felt the public relations wallop delivered by law gossip blogs, those online tabloids that can turn an interoffice memo into a virtual billboard of bad news for partners. The immediacy &#151 and, at times, the brutality &#151 of the media form is presenting a challenge for firms that are wary of their private matters entering the public domain.
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August 10, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

From Jail to Jobless

About 92 million Americans ? more than one in four adults ? have some kind of criminal history, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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July 02, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

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September 06, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

The Litigation Lottery

Employment litigation can be a high-stakes lottery. And usually it's one in which the odds are stacked against employers. But the good news for employers is that the number of measures available to help prevent litigation has recently increased, thanks to several court decisions. Employers can now use such preventative measures in employment contracts, thus increasing their odds in the litigation lottery. Those include, in part, jury-trial waivers and shortened statutes of limitation.
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April 14, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

5th Circuit's Triple Feature Is a Fright Fest for Employees

The 5th Circuit often sets the pace for its sister circuits as they all start to confront a surge in employment claims. Attorney Michael P. Maslanka says the court's message to employees is: Maybe the discrimination you underwent is bad, but it's not that bad. Maslanka analyzes three cases that illustrate the 5th Circuit's approach, which he predicts will return to the one-free-dog-bite rule adapted to employment law: one free threat, one free racial comment, one free physical encounter.
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December 18, 2006 | National Law Journal

MOVERS

Former Department of Justice prosecutor Seth Rosenthal has joined Venable as a litigation partner in the firm's Washington headquarters; and Chicago-based Schiff Hardin announced the promotion of eight lawyers to partner status for 2007.
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June 01, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Moves: Reverse Commute

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May 19, 2008 | National Law Journal

VOIR DIRE

Someone robs a New Age store of its Indiana Jones' style skull and a law professor uncovers an operetta by late Chief Justice Rehnquist. And holy #*&$, a cabbie gets fined $1,000 for cursing out another cabbie in this week's offbeat news.
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February 22, 2008 | New York Law Journal

NALP: Summer Job Offers Must Be Accepted Within 45 Days

Starting next fall, law students will need to think fast when choosing which offer to accept for a summer associate job, due to a change in timing guidelines. The guidelines established by NALP will require second-year law students to accept a law firm's offer of summer employment within 45 days. If students do not respond, the offer lapses.
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