Headlines • NALP: Law Grads' Jobs Rate Falls for Fifth Straight Year • Court Hits Homestretch With Big Cases Still On Deck • Bolstering Arbitration, Supreme Court Sides with Amex • Is Voting Decision the End of the Road for Arizona? • Discovery Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board • Supreme Court Gives Corporations a License to Steal • Seeding Authority: Monsanto Can Round Up Infringers • NLJ 350 Regional Report: The Hot Markets, and the Cold • Ranking the States: Where Do Big Firm Lawyers Work? • Largest Law Firm Offices in the United States A large graduating class and fewer law school-funded jobs meant that the overall employment rate for the J.D. class of 2012 fell by 1 percent compared to a year ago, according to figures released Thursday by NALP. Read More » As she summarized the first opinion of the day on Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan said it involved the Armed Career Criminal Act and joked that it was "possibly not what you're here for this morning." Read More » Continuing its warm embrace of arbitration and its disdain for class actions, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that agreements between companies and their customers can prohibit class action arbitration, even if that makes it harder for plaintiffs to vindicate their claims. Read More » If this case had been decided a few years ago, there is not much doubt that Arizona would have amended its law to provide for proof of citizenship before voting. But having been slapped down several times in recent years by the Supreme Court, Arizona may think twice. Read More » The America Invents Act introduced three new proceedings for challenging the validity of patents. Read More » This is a devastating day for justice in America. The U.S. Supreme Court just issued its decision in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant and gave corporations a license to steal. 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 » A state-by-state breakdown of attorney headcount at NLJ 350 firms. Read More » More than 19,000 lawyers work in the 50 largest U.S. offices. Read More » |
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