Largest State Poised to Require Practical Skills Training

Headlines • Largest State Poised to Require Practical Skills Training • Up and Down They Go: Big Changes in Ranks on the NLJ 350 • Justices Reject Human Gene Patents; Fallout May Be Limited • At the Supreme Court, New Regulation Targets Demonstrations • Two and a Quarter Centuries of American Invention • THE NLJ 350 • The Take-Away • Butler Snow Credits Firm Culture for Healthy Growth • Sotomayor's Beloved $3 Million World • Rambus Settles Patent Dispute with Korea's SK Hynix Largest State Poised to Require Practical Skills Training A task force of the State Bar of California has recommended that new attorneys be required to complete at least 15 hours of practical skills training and 50 hours of pro bono service before they are admitted to practice. Read More » Up and Down They Go: Big Changes in Ranks on the NLJ 350 If you're following the results of the NLJ 350, you already know which firms gained and lost the most attorneys in 2012. But there's another perspective on highs and lows, involving the firms' rankings year over year. Read More » Justices Reject Human Gene Patents; Fallout May Be Limited Reversing decades of federal patent awards, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that human genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible. Read More » At the Supreme Court, New Regulation Targets Demonstrations The Supreme Court moved quickly on Thursday to respond to a recent district judge's decision that struck down the federal law banning demonstrations on the grounds of the court. Read More » Two and a Quarter Centuries of American Invention The 19th century witnessed rapid development of inventions responsive to the nation's economic expansion. Read More » THE NLJ 350 The number of lawyers increased just slightly in 2012. Most of the gains were among partners, and associate results were flat. Read More » The Take-Away The trickle of growth in the NLJ 350 is an indicator of economic wariness among the largest U.S. law firms. Read More » Butler Snow Credits Firm Culture for Healthy Growth Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada — one of the fastest growing law firms among the NLJ 350 during 2012 — tells recruits something unusual: You might not want to work here. "[If] the dollar is the last and first thing on your list each morning, then Butler Snow might not be for you," firm chairman Donald Clark Jr. said. "We're very, very different than most firms out there." Read More » Sotomayor's Beloved $3 Million World News and gossip edition: Are white Supreme Court justices too bland? Is Wachtell spawning super-bloggers? Who wants their kids to be lawyers? And more. Read More » Rambus Settles Patent Dispute with Korea's SK Hynix The $240 million settlement likely leaves both sides a bit dissatisfied, but at least they can turn the page on a grinding court fight that's generated fees for several major firms. Read More »

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