Headlines • Plan Slashes Rates for Court-Appointed Private Counsel • Toyota Attacks Alleged Evidence of Accelerator Software Bug • Ex-Associate's Retaliation Claims Survive Against Ropes • Lawyers Say Sandusky Cases Beginning to Settle With PSU • In Vermont, There's Legal Work — for Those Who Work for It • New Hampshire's Midsize Firms Still Feeling Pinched • Boston's Best • ALM Offers Digital Memberships • Four Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap • The Most Diverse Law Firms Are... More than 10,000 private attorneys will see less pay in federal indigent defense cases under the judiciary's latest effort to deal with budget restraints Congress imposed. Read More » Toyota Motor Corp. has moved to strike evidence from a software expert who claims to have identified a bug in the electronic throttle control system source code that plaintiffs attorneys blame for unintended acceleration by Toyota vehicles. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Law Librarian M.S.: St. John'sFlexible, affordable, St. John's University's M.S. and Advanced Certificate programs in Library and Information Science combine top faculty with the resources of New York's best law libraries. Students receive well-equipped laptops. Contact Jeffery Olson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Provost and Director of Library and Information Science: (718) 990-6200; dlis@stjohns.edu. Visit www.stjohns.edu/lawlibrarian | A federal judge has thrown out the bulk of a former associate's race-discrimination complaint against Ropes & Gray, but set a November trial date on two retaliation claims. Read More » A 25-year-old has settled with Penn State for an undisclosed amount for the sexual abuse he experienced at the age of 13 by convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky in a shower, according to the plaintiff's lawyer, Tom Kline of Kline & Specter. Read More » Vermont may not be the nation's largest legal market, but it offers a variety of niche practices and a fourth-in-the-nation unemployment rate of about 4.4 percent — evidence that work is available for those who look for it. Read More » New Hampshire's unemployment rate of about 5.2 percent points to a relatively robust economy. The southern half of the "Live Free or Die" state long ago became a suburb of Boston and contains about three quarters of New Hampshire's population. As for the legal market — that's somewhat complicated. Read More » We recognize the Boston area's top corporate legal departments — the ones setting the standard in pro bono service, use of technology, management of outside counsel and more. Read More » ALM launches digital memberships to streamline reader access to its legal industry publications. Read More » Women still aren't getting a fair shake at the firm--here's what can be done about it. Read More » Vault.com has released its diversity rankings, and a single firm has taken the number one spot throughout. Read More » |
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