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Practice By Practice: 2010's Substantive Law Developments
Practitioners write about the year's developments in their practice areas, including banking and business, bankruptcy, criminal law, energy, family law, immigration, insurance, intellectual property, labor and employment, personal-injury law, real estate, securities and tax law. In all, the 22 writers reflect on substantive legal developments in 13 practice areas for 2010.Is This Any Way to Recruit Associates?
Ask law firm recruits, particularly those from elite schools, about the summer associate recruiting experience, and the stories are fairly similar: Short interviews, shallow questions and a sheaf of boilerplate marketing materials. For law firms, the process is expensive and time-intensive -- and still results in low acceptance and high attrition rates. Some firms are experimenting with more sophisticated interview strategies used by other professional services firms. But resistance to change is fierce.
Ingredients in the Whole Foods, FTC Settlement
As corporate mergers go, the purchase of natural foods grocer Wild Oats by its rival Whole Foods Market looked like small potatoes (organic yellow fingerling, perhaps). Nobody expected the proposed $565 million acquisition to spark a food fight of epic proportions.Cases and Controversies of the 2002-2003 Terms
A list of opinions issued by the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals in their 2002-2003 terms.Bills That Made It and Some That Didn't During the 80th Session
The Sound and the Fury: After Hurricane Ike, Legal Community Pulls Together, Pushes Forward
Hurricane Ike hit the Texas Gulf Coast with devastating force, obliterating or damaging some businesses and homes while leaving others relatively untouched. In the days following the storm, lawyers throughout the region struggled to serve clients while meeting their and their employees' basic needs.Trending Stories
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