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By Michael P. Maslanka | October 1, 2017
My law professor gig is now going on two years plus. I've learned a lot about teaching. (As the Zen expression goes: "a good teacher always remains a good student.") Here's one lesson: yes teach doctrine, yet also teach mindsets; that is a way of thinking.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 1, 2017
David Hall announces his retirement as executive director of the Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA.)
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By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
The Legal Clinic for the Disabled, now celebrating 30 years of serving the disability community of Philadelphia and the surrounding counties, announced the recipients of its annual awards.
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By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
On April 19, 2013, plaintiff Cody Gross, 17, was participating in a "spirit event," in which students competed in various games, at his high school in Bensalem.
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By Hugh A. Simons, ALM Intelligence Fellow | September 29, 2017
As firms lose associate hours to technology, they need to increase senior lawyer rates to maintain profitability. And it takes time.
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By Brian Baxter | September 29, 2017
The two firms, which have partnered up on Chapter 11 cases for Gymboree and Gordmans, have now submitted court papers showing how much they intend to charge—and have already been paid—for their roles representing another ailing retailer. Another bankrupt Kirkland client paid $47.5 million to the firm within the past year.
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By Miriam Rozen | September 29, 2017
The Am Law 100 firm, which is poised to give up its longtime digs in New York's Financial District for a new headquarters in midtown Manhattan, is reportedly offering buyouts to secretaries and other staffers.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | September 29, 2017
Having opened a Dallas office in March, Dorsey & Whitney now bolted on two more lawyers for its office in the city, adding a pair of litigators from Winstead.
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By Lizzy McLellan | September 29, 2017
It's not unusual for law firms to issue a formal response after they've been confronted with criticism, hit with litigation or stung by bad publicity. But that approach wasn't enough for a Philadelphia workers' compensation firm after its business practices came under scrutiny this month.
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By Andrea M. Kirshenbaum | September 29, 2017
On Sept. 20, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Souryavong v. Lackawanna County that is music to the ears of employers on two fronts. First, the court of appeals defined a willful violation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) narrowly, requiring actual awareness of the specific FLSA violation and a degree of egregiousness. Second, the Third Circuit affirmed the district court's attorney fees award, applying a hybrid lodestar and multi-factor test analysis, resulting in an award to the plaintiffs' counsel of approximately one-third of what the plaintiffs originally sought.
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