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DLA Piper Snags Tech Startup Team
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has lured Jeffrey Leavitt from Arnall Golden Gregory and Douglas Spear from Morris, Manning & Martin to lead its Atlanta's office's new practice group: emerging companies and venture capital. Local managing partner Mark Grantham said tapping lawyers in their early 30s to establish an emerging companies practice was not as unusual as in some other areas. "This field is dominated by young people, both on the client or company side and on the consulting, financial and legal side."The Practice of Law as a Healing Art
With the increase in associate salaries and the pressure to bill more hours, we are seeing not only alcohol and drug addiction but also serious stress, depression and other mental health problems among legal professionals. Moderator Michael Cohen and a panel of experts discussed the personal issues surrounding the legal profession during a law.com online seminar "Stress, Substance Abuse & the Legal Community."Dana Corp. to Pay $26M to Law Firms, Advisers
A judge on Thursday authorized Dana Corp. to pay about $26 million to the cluster of law firms, restructuring consultants and financial advisers working on its bankruptcy reorganization. Judge Burton Lifland of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan approved the payment of four months' worth of fees and expenses to 19 firms after they reached a compromise with a Justice Department official. The official, acting U.S. Trustee Diana G. Adams, had expressed concern about Dana's rising restructuring costs.Courts Nationwide Tackle Fundamental Tech-Related Issues
The end of last year was relatively quiet for technology cases in New York's courts. Elsewhere, however, courts were at work on some fundamental issues, including file-sharing, password stealing and security circumvention. Attorney Stephen M. Kramarsky examines some interesting intellectual property cases from around the country that closed out 2005. Among them include MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. and BMG Music v. Gonzales .Firm Talk: From Prosecutor to Civil Practice
My husband is a recent grad from law school. He worked as a federal clerk for a year and is now having difficulty getting a job at a firm. He was offered a position at the DA�s office and, while he is happy to have an offer and would love to gain some good trial experience, he is worried that he will not be able to make the transition over to the civil world if he works as an assistant DA for a year or so. Could get a job in the civil world after working for the DA?New Kids on the Block: Big-Tex Firms Taking Wait-and-See Approach to Hiring
Think "pancake." Then you'll have an idea of the associate hiring trend at large Texas firms this year. The numbers of new associates reporting for work this fall in Texas changed little from the previous year. Offer rates -- and starting salaries -- for 2Ls are pretty much the same as in the fall of 2002, which suggests firms are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward staffing as the nation's economy mounts a slow recovery.Ruling Suggests 'Inattention' May Lead to Personal Liability
In recent weeks, the courts in Delaware have issued several rulings that have stern messages for directors to take action and be accountable in their governance, which may ultimately accelerate directors' decisions to pursue a merger, sale or other transaction to save a distressed company. Directors and officers can take some comfort that the courts do not expect them to make perfect decisions. However, the rulings regarding directors' liabilities provide a new twist for future litigation.Trending Stories
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