Bright Spots Amid Glum Jobs Outlook

Headlines • Bright Spots Amid Glum Jobs Outlook • Which Law Schools Are Tops for Jobs? • Prominent Litigators Lining Up on Either Side of Aereo Battle • Sharp Drop in Dickstein Net Income • Pressure Builds to Open Attorney Ethics Investigations • Banning the Box: Tread Lightly When Conducting Background Checks • INADMISSIBLE: First Amendment Flaw Found in SEC Rule • VOIR DIRE: Due Credit • MOVERS • D.C. Moves Bright Spots Amid Glum Jobs Outlook Top law schools are able to place most of their graduates in associate positions, but elsewhere the future remains grim according to employment stats released last week by the American Bar Association. Read More » Which Law Schools Are Tops for Jobs? The best and worst schools, as ranked by the percentage of 2013 graduates who, nine months after graduation, have found full-time, long-term jobs that require bar passage — the gold standard for new legal jobs — according to the American Bar Association. Read More » Prominent Litigators Lining Up on Either Side of Aereo Battle The U.S. Supreme Court on April 22 will hear arguments in American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo Inc. — what some observers have called the most important copyright challenge to reach the high court in a decade. Read More » Sharp Drop in Dickstein Net Income Dickstein Shapiro faced its worst year in more than a decade after contingency cases didn't pull in income and the firm restructured, chairman James Kelly said in an interview. He called 2013 an "investment year." Read More » Pressure Builds to Open Attorney Ethics Investigations The U.S. Department of Justice faces new pressure to make lawyer-misconduct investigations more transparent and less subject to potential conflicts of interest. Read More » Banning the Box: Tread Lightly When Conducting Background Checks The trend toward prison and criminal sentencing reform has implications for employers, as states and local ­governments begin to restrict the use of criminal background checks in hiring. Read More » INADMISSIBLE: First Amendment Flaw Found in SEC Rule A federal securities rule that requires companies to publicly declare whether certain minerals used in products are "conflict free" violates the First Amendment, a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled on April 14. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » VOIR DIRE: Due Credit God is suing Equifax. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » MOVERS Read More » D.C. Moves Read More »

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