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Deja Get Outta Here: BigLaw Again Axes Partner Targeted by SEC
The 2011 Client Advisory from consultants Hildebrandt Baker Robbins and Citi Private Bank released earlier this month predicted that this year would bring only modest gains for the legal sector, with most firms needing to get creative in order to avoid losses.N.Y. Justice's Disclosure Highlights Medical Marijuana Debate
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach has written scores of decisions in his long career on the bench, but the opinion that may have especially broad impact is the op-ed column in which he admitted smoking marijuana to cope with the debilitating effects of cancer.Trustee sues former Rothstein GC for $37 million
The bankruptcy trustee dropped his biggest bombshell yet with a clawback lawsuit against attorney David Boden, a former general counsel of imprisoned con artist Scott Rothstein.Attorney's Gross Neglect Leads to Reinstatement of Employment Suit
A former Pepsi employee had his employment-discrimination suit reinstated September 4, where his original lawyer had kept the suit's dismissal — and his own disbarment — a secret.Proposal Would Boost In-House Pro Bono Role
Under the proposed rule, once registered, in-house counsel could appear before any tribunal or court in the state on pro bono matters, without the need to seek pro hac vice admission, associate with a legal services provider or work under the supervision of a New York-licensed attorney.'Hamdan' attorney is denied Navy promotion
In the Navy generally, unqualified officers don't often get promoted but lots of very qualified officers get passed over, said a former Navy Judge Advocate General. In the latter category, he added, is Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, counsel to an enemy combatant whose legal case made U.S. Supreme Court history last term.Managing in the Age of Anxiety
Managing associates and sustaining morale becomes more complicated when the economy tanks. Once a large law firm lays off associates for economic reasons, associates almost everywhere grow anxious and managing partners may be missing just how much layoffs spook the current generation of associates.Circuit Rejects Use of Statistical Proof for Bias Claims Against Individuals
The pattern-or-practice evidentiary framework is not appropriate for a suit against individual state officials in civil rights actions for intentional discrimination, the Second Circuit ruled on July 11.Lack of Pay, Age Limits Leave Open Seats on Bench
High Court Upholds Ruling Overturning Precedent
A deeply divided state Supreme Court has upheld on reargument a ruling that overturned its own 1997 decision in Flanagan v. Labe, which said registered nurses are not qualified to provide expert testimony to medical causation.Trending Stories
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