The University of San Diego Paralegal Program was recently approved as an eligible training provider through the San Diego Workforce Partnership and the Employment Development Department. As a result, unemployed individuals and those collecting unemployment benefits may receive complete funding of tuition and books for the Paralegal Program. Secondly, the U.S. Department of Labor has partnered [...]
July 2, 2009 10:59 am
There's clearly a business model here for a multi-national legal partnership willing to provide this service at commodity prices. Tales from the encrypt: the secrets of data protection | Technology | guardian.co.uk But what if I were ... opted for a written sheet of instructions, including the key, that I will print on my next visit to Canada and physically deliver to the lawyer. Someone could package this. There would be some details to work out, especially how best to transport the data (internet ...
July 2, 2009 09:45 am

What to do if your company gets a deposition notice?

(Indiana Civil " Business Lawyer Blog)
Read Be Prepared to Deal With Deposition Notices and get ready to call your lawyer: Your company has just been served with a 30(b)(6) deposition notice under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ... courts: (6) A party may in his notice name as the deponent an organization, including without limitation a governmental organization, or a partnership and designate with reasonable particularity the matters on which examination is requested. The organization so named shall designate one or more officers, ...
July 2, 2009 08:22 am
... to the ABA, my former employer, Munger Tolles & Olson, topped American Lawyer's A-list of law firms, based on its commitment to pro bono work, its diversity, and ... Although I'm of course much happier in my current gig as a law prof than I was as a lawyer, I have fond memories of Munger Tolles. As law firms go, it's hard for me ... are now partners(!). That says that I've been in the legal academy for a while now (7 years) but also that Munger Tolles still has a relatively short partnership track.
July 1, 2009 09:08 pm

Orrick Ends Lockstep

(Above the Law)
... advancing skill, and clients should not bear the cost of training associates. In the end, our goal is to deploy the right lawyer or professional for the right task at the right cost. " The three classes apply only to "partner track" associates. What are ... , due diligence specialists, document assemblers, and legal researchers. The Custom Track creates roles for lawyers who have outstanding skills yet desire a less traditional path to partnership or do not aspire to partnership at all. Associates ...
July 1, 2009 12:54 pm
... advancing skill, and clients should not bear the cost of training associates. In the end, our goal is to deploy the right lawyer or professional for the right task at the right cost." Other Novel Roles: Career Attorneys & Legal Team Professionals and ... , due diligence specialists, document assemblers, and legal researchers. The Custom Track creates roles for lawyers who have outstanding skills yet desire a less traditional path to partnership or do not aspire to partnership at all. Associates ...
July 1, 2009 11:40 am
... “some reduction in how many people make partner,” Handley says. The firm, however, is not immediately altering its associate compensation scale, even for associates who are bumped off the partnership track. But Orrick will adopt a new comp schedule in 2010. The "custom" track lawyers will be paid some amount less than the "partner" track lawyers. In addition, Handley says, bonuses will make up ...
July 1, 2009 10:38 am
... the history of the electronic age, firms have attempted to implement legal knowledgebases. The promise of a systematic database of the firm's proprietary expertise has always appealed to the partnership, but wave after wave of legal knowledgebases have failed, largely for the simple reason that lawyers didn't use them." Read more... Source: FindLaw's. Modern Practice: Law & Technology, 28 May ...
July 1, 2009 09:58 am
... , involving the illegal sale of more than 1,000 pounds of explosives. The defendants and their customers were not licensed, yet they purchased and sold professional display fireworks. CPSC and the Justice Department worked in partnership on this case. At the ports, CPSC is working alongside CBP to ensure shipments are in compliance with the federal regulations. With CBP assistance, last year CPSC staff found through sampling and testing of fireworks shipments that forty-nine percent of these ...
July 1, 2009 09:54 am
... you'd worry about those business-related matters later, perhaps during your 7th or 8th year of practice when you were up for partnership), because you knew that if you met that magical 2200 hours at the end of the year, your annual bonus was as ... a senior partner at a large multinational firm in D.C. stated, "I'm not really interested in the business of the law," explaining that as lawyers focus more on the bottom line their role as a trusted advisor diminishes in value. Well, in my opinion, it's ...
July 1, 2009 06:05 am
... number of the first half lawsuit defendants were entities other than public companies, including private investment partnerships, mutual funds, and other nonpublic entities. As many as sixteen of the new first half lawsuit filings involved primary defendant ... of possible reasons for the relative slowdown in the number of filings during the second quarter. My own theory is that the plaintiffs' lawyers may have found themselves in a logjam, due to two factors. One factor is the onslaught of Madoff- ...
July 1, 2009 03:05 am

Men: some respect please

(Legal Village)
... It requires great skill on a woman's part to deal with this situation diplomatically but firmly. If you were an employer looking for a lawyer capable of handling difficult negotiations, who would you hire: a man who cannot control his basic instincts, or a woman who can defuse ... fact and give us an opportunity to prove our worth. Kate Karakuli (name changed) is a senior associate at a top UK firm. For more from Kate, see Redundancy: a scary prospect, Fighting for survival and Path to partnership.
June 30, 2009 10:44 am

Hedge Fund Records

(Hedge Fund Law Blog)
... are to be furnished, at what time and location and at whose expense) as may be set forth in the partnership agreement or otherwise established by the general partners, to obtain from the general partners from time to time upon reasonable demand ... (f) The rights of a limited partner to obtain information as provided in this section may be restricted in an original partnership agreement or in any subsequent amendment approved or adopted by all of the partners and in compliance with any applicable ...
June 30, 2009 09:12 am
... long-serving director of the Delaware Statistical Analysis Center. The symposium could not have happened without the full partnership and support of three institutions - NASC, our intellectual home and publishing partner the Vera Institute of ... comprises people interested in sentencing and includes members and staff of sentencing commissions, judges, public officials, lawyers, academics, and other practitioners. It is one of the few places where people from these varied - but interdependent - ...
June 30, 2009 08:29 am
... (England and Wales) has published a report on the safeguarding of expert evidence in the European Union: "The Law Society worked in partnership with the Suomen Asianajajaliitto (Finland); Det Danske Advokatsamfund (Denmark); Consiglio Nazionale Forense (Italy); and Slovenska Advokatska Komora (Slovakia). Each partner set up a Task Force comprising a defence lawyer, investigator, prosecutor, judge, forensic practitioner and bar association representative. In addition, representatives of 15 ...
June 30, 2009 06:54 am
... Presents the 2009 Hurley, McKenna & Mertz Lecture Series Event: Tips and Trends in Long-Term Care. Hurley, McKenna & Mertz, P.C. is a partnership of trial lawyers in Chicago dedicated to the representation of persons whose lives have been destroyed by the negligence of others. The firm's practice includes representation of nursing home residents and their families in cases of abuse, neglect, and fraud. Eric M. Carlson, ...
June 29, 2009 03:05 pm
... I am now seeing articles like "Meditation great way to ease stress" (The Lawyers Weekly) frequently. And when I do, I point them out to you. Excerpt: We all ... ) post. Clients want more, quicker. We may have pressures in our partnerships, money worries and attempts at having a life outside the office. We try ... , Berkeley, are now offering meditation courses to their students in an effort to provide budding lawyers with tools to fight the stress they will face in their careers. What's your mindfulness ...
June 29, 2009 06:51 am
... manufacturers' recalls, accidents and industry trends, the New York City Buildings Department recently announced an unprecedented partnership with the cities of Chicago and Philadelphia to share critical data on tower cranes erected within their borders. At ... Department launched in July to improve crane, hoists, excavations and concrete operations citywide. The personal injury lawyers at Levine & Slavit have decades of experience handling personal injury claims, including for workers injured ...
June 28, 2009 01:25 pm
... from a legal perspective, which comes as no surprise since current educational systems worldwide only train lawyers in IP. Economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians or even engineers know most of the times very little ... between the exercise of exclusive rights and the universal right to equitable access. Innovation functions as a public private partnership; according to current research by Ashley Stevens at Boston University the vast majority of FDA (Food and Drug Administration) ...
June 26, 2009 10:23 am

Make Patents, not War

(IP Thinktank)
... from a legal perspective, which comes as no surprise since current educational systems worldwide only train lawyers in IP. Economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians or even engineers know most of the times very little ... between the exercise of exclusive rights and the universal right to equitable access. Innovation functions as a public private partnership; according to current research by Ashley Stevens at Boston University the vast majority of FDA (Food and Drug Administration) ...
June 26, 2009 09:17 am
 
 

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