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The Legal's Top Lateral Hires of 2012
Our listing of the top lateral moves of 2012 could not be more diverse when it comes to practice area and firm type. And for the first time, we have listed lateral attorneys who left the Pennsylvania market for other locations – their departures too significant on the local legal community for their mentions to be barred by our typical in-state focus.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- the nation's troubled top law enforcement officer -- ended speculation Monday and resigned. For much of the past eight months, Gonzales withstood a barrage of criticism that he had politicized the Department of Justice and misled Congress while giving testimony about the firings. Gonzales' exit is the latest in a string of high-level resignations at the department, which have left Main Justice largely devoid of leadership.As Abbott Drags on, Justices Grow More Discerning of Its Advocates
After 30 years of judicially managing New Jersey's poorest school districts, the state Supreme Court is starting to get a little schoolmarmish - slapping lawyers' wrists when they don't do their sums right. So it was that patience wore thin last Wednesday as the Abbott v. Burke litigation landed at the Court again, and as a lawyer from the Education Law Center argued, again, that the state is not living up to its constitutional duty to provide a thorough and efficient education.Softening Economy: Hard Times Ahead?
A pall has fallen over law practices in Northern Virginia's once-bullish technology corridor. Just a year ago, venture capital was flooding into the region. Today, local dot-coms are going belly-up. More lawyers than ever are fighting for a piece of what few deals are getting done. "It's going to be a challenge for all of us to grow our practices as we'd expected," says Hale and Dorr's David Sylvester.How The Bank Lobby Loosened U.S. Reins On Derivatives
While regulators won the power to reach deep into a $633 trillion market, Wall Street preserved its dominance in derivatives trading with one of the largest sustained lobbying attacks on a single Washington agency.Barnett, respondents-appellants v. Schwartz, appellants-respondents
Malpractice Committed by Failing to Advise on Effect Of �As Is� Clause in Lease of Contaminated PropertyLawyers as Pundits, by Way of the Web
Last week, we examined journal-like Web sites, or blogs, that can be of practical use to lawyers. Now here's a look at blogs published by legal professionals that may touch on the law, but are by no means preoccupied with it. Some are political, some are polemical, some offer parody and some gaze at their own navels, but all are interesting.Trending Stories
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