Boston Law Firms Shaken by Blasts

Headlines »  Boston Law Firms Shaken by Blasts »  More Pre-law Students Are Planning Non-legal Careers »  Appeals Court Affirms Wilmer Win in Malpractice Suit »  On Gene Patents, Court Ponders Nature vs. Nurture »  Litigator Scruggs' Appellate Loss Could Mean His Return to Prison »  First Circuit Revives Whistleblower Claim »  Akin Ushers Japan into Trade Treaty Talks »  On the pursuit of that MRS degree »  Ruling Treated Veganism Like a Religion »  A reboot for legal education Boston Law Firms Shaken by Blasts People working in law firms in the area of Boston struck by two deadly bombs on Monday reported being shaken but unhurt. Read More » More Pre-law Students Are Planning Non-legal Careers Has the legal profession lost its luster in the eyes of would-be lawyers? A survey of pre-law students found that 43 percent planned to use their degrees to find jobs in the business world rather than in the legal industry. Read More » Appeals Court Affirms Wilmer Win in Malpractice Suit Updated at 4:24 p.m. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed the dismissal of legal malpractice claims against Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and denounced the "contumacious behavior" of the lawyer who brought the case. Wilmer represented... Read More » On Gene Patents, Court Ponders Nature vs. Nurture Chocolate chip cookies. Baseball bats. Amazon plants. Not a game show quiz, but hypotheticals by U.S. Supreme Court justices trying to decide whether human genes should be patented. Read More » Litigator Scruggs' Appellate Loss Could Mean His Return to Prison Disgraced plaintiffs' attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs could be headed back to prison after a federal appeals court affirmed his 2009 conviction for bribing a Mississippi state court judge. Read More » First Circuit Revives Whistleblower Claim A federal appeals court has revived a whistleblower's False Claim Act case against Millennium Laboratories for alleged excessive testing of patients' response to chronic pain medications. Read More » Akin Ushers Japan into Trade Treaty Talks With U.S. support for Japan's entry into negotiations for a pan-Pacific free-trade pact announced last week, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld had a reason to celebrate. Under a $600,000-per-year contract with Japan, Akin had lobbied U.S. government officials since... Read More » On the pursuit of that MRS degree A Princeton woman from the golden age of feminism is saying, "Here's what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate." Well, that certainly beats the tired advice about networking! Read More » Ruling Treated Veganism Like a Religion What is a religion? This seemingly simple question has proven difficult to answer — particularly for courts tasked with deciding the merits of claims for religious discrimination brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Read More » A reboot for legal education Schools should foster integrity, leadership, problem-solving; a new ranking system should reward the ones that do it best. Read More »

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