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October 24, 2003 | Law.com

Your Job Is Out There

Until the economy improves, the legal employment market will remain challenging. It's no wonder law students and recent grads are on edge about getting their first job. But in fact, there's reason to be hopeful in the face of nagging employment questions. Current National Association for Law Placement data reveal that if students and grads are flexible, opportunistic, and committed in their job search, they can and do find jobs.
8 minute read
March 28, 2006 | National Law Journal

Will Law Firms Be Able to Weather Wiretap-Related Suits?

Indictments stemming from Hollywood's latest celebrity scandal have struck fear into L.A.'s legal community. But it's the civil fallout from private eye Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping indictment that instills true horror. Several attorneys face litigation that could cripple their practices -- and possibly break up their firms. One problem: Wiretapping won't be covered by malpractice insurance. For some firms, says liability expert Timothy Halloran, "bankruptcy may be the only alternative."
6 minute read
January 01, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

Murphy's law

It was the best of decisions; it was the worst of decisions. It all depends on your point of view.
7 minute read
April 21, 2008 | National Law Journal

Tastes Like Trouble

William Bedsworth muses on a bill in the Kentucky Legislature to make Kentucky Fried Chicken "The Official Picnic Food of Kentucky," and PETA's protest over this potential legislation.
9 minute read
April 12, 2006 | Law.com

Three Firms Settle a Pellicano Civil Suit

Three law firms and six lawyers have settled a civil suit alleging they hired private eye Anthony Pellicano to wiretap Kissandra Cohen, who had filed a suit against her former employer, Masry & Vititoe, as well as Lynberg & Watkins and Gaims, Weil, West & Epstein. Cohen alleged that the firms wiretapped her while litigating her sexual discrimination suit against Masry & Vititoe. The settlement comes amid a probe that has implicated some of the biggest names in L.A.'s legal and entertainment circles.
4 minute read
June 04, 2007 | Law.com

Is Exxon Valdez Litigation Over?

After years of bouncing back and forth in appeals courts, the Exxon Valdez litigation may finally have reached the end of the line in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - and a potential resolution.
5 minute read
April 13, 2007 | Law.com

Tough To Be a Humorist

How can a jester like Bedsworth compete with all the world's spontaneous hilarities? By diagnosing them, of course � like the Tijuana Police Department's decision to issue slingshots to its cops.
12 minute read
December 06, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Oras v. The Housing Authority of the City of Bayonne

The summary judgment dismissing plaintiff-paraplegic's complaint alleging violations of state and federal disability discrimination laws in defendant-housing authority's failure to provide him with a handicap-accessible apartment and its refusal to reasonably accommodate his disability by permitting him to keep a dog to assist him with his daily activities is reversed and remanded for a fact-sensitive, cost-benefit analysis that considers both parties' needs; the punitive damages claim is also reinstated.
14 minute read
March 26, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

News in Brief

Former Lawmaker Released From Prison Erie - Former state Rep. Tracy Seyfert ended a six-month sentence for misusing government property and witness tampering and was released from a federal prison in Connecticut, officials said.
9 minute read
May 25, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Roughing It: It's Summertime, But the Working Isn't As Easy

The days of extravagant summer associates' programs featuring meals at pricey restaurants, dinner cruises, suites at sporting events and weekends out of town seem to be over for now, with large Texas firms scaling back on the summer social events as well as the size of the summer programs. Munsch Hardt's Kitty O'Connell Henry (pictured), co-chairwoman of the firm's law school hiring program, says, "We've cut back on a few things."
15 minute read

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