Headlines • THE NLJ 350 • The Old Rules No Longer Apply in The NLJ 350 • No More Mr. Nice President • Long Careers for Court Nominees • Firms Eye CFPB Lawyers • DNA, Up for Sampling • Nine misconceptions about in-house metrics • VOIR DIRE: Pull Up or Pay Up • The U.S. Government is Here to Help...Fight Corruption? • Law School Applications Are Up (But Down) The number of lawyers increased just slightly in 2012. Most of the gains were among partners, and associate results were flat. Read More » Tepid growth among the nation's 350 largest law firms in 2012 showed that the highly leveraged, bottom-heavy ways of doing business have become unsustainable. Read More » President Barack Obama's naming of three lawyers to a key appeals court last week struck a new, more aggressive tone on the judicial nominations front, a move that ultimately could determine the size of the imprint his presidency leaves on the nation's courts. Read More » Soon after President Barack Obama formally announced three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, there wasn't much if any public criticism of the qualifications of the candidates. Read More » The revolving door makes the Washington legal market go round and, lately, it's starting to spin faster between the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and law firms eager to snap up talent. Read More » Police sampling of the DNA of individuals arrested in connection with serious crimes may become as routine as fingerprinting and photographing as the result of a major Fourth Amendment ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Read More » Data skeptics who argue that 'good managers know people, not percentages' risk prejudices and blind spots. Read More » The beach city of Wildwood, N.J., is drawing a line in the sand with a "decency" ordinance that would ban saggy pants. Plus: crying fowl, memory wheels, and bad dressing in this week's column. Read More » When companies discuss U.S. government international anticorruption initiatives, they voice considerable suspicion. And while their skepticism is understandable, it may also be misplaced. Read More » Latest news about the law school market. Plus, a report on the report about law faculty diversity. Read More » |
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