Headlines • Moscow the Only Loser Among NLJ 350 Overseas Markets • Harvard Law Financing Grads' Public-Interest Projects • Federal Circuit Nominee Sails Through Confirmation Hearing • Fee Awards Begin to Trickle Out in BAR/BRI Class Action • Seeding Authority: Monsanto Can Round Up Infringers • NLJ 350 Regional Report: The Hot Markets, and the Cold • NLJ 350 Law Firms Continue Expansion in China • A Backwards-Looking Profession • Upping Collaboration, Prosecution to Fight Corruption • Controversial Pick for Detroit Retirement System GC Moscow was the only city to lose lawyers last year among the overseas markets tracked by the NLJ 350 Regional Report, as U.S. firms operating in the Russian capital dropped attorneys at a rate of 2 percent. Read More » While many law schools offer stipends or grants for students and graduates to do public interest work, Harvard is the first to offer support for entrepreneurial-minded graduates who want to create their own public service-oriented projects. Read More » A career staff attorney at the U.S. Justice Department who could become the first openly gay federal appellate court judge sailed through his confirmation hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Read More » As class members in the $49 million BAR/BRI settlement continue to wait for their distribution checks, lawyers for five individuals who succeeded in unraveling key portions of the deal on appeal were granted immediate payment of more than $230,000 in fees and costs. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court has for the second time in about as many months addressed an important issue of intellectual property. Read More » Our Regional Report takes the headcount numbers from our NLJ 350 survey and dices up the data, region by region. • See the complete 2013 NLJ 350 survey results. Read More » Hong Kong and Beijing saw sizeable increases in lawyer headcounts in this year's NLJ 350 survey, showing that China remains a good bet for law firms. Read More » For its own self-interest, the legal profession should welcome the input of nonlawyers and even cede some measure of power to them. Read More » Executives whose companies are working on the international stage should be wary of the Department of Justice's aggressive prosecution of individuals on bribery charges, according to Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general for the DOJ's criminal division. Read More » The Detroit Police and Fire Retirement System has hired an interim general counsel, but its choice of a lawyer caught up in a bribery scandal—though not charged—is causing some to question the decision. Read More » |
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