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Legal sector starting pay tumbles in US
Law firm starting salaries in the US have nosedived recently -- tumbling by a staggering 35 per cent compared with three years ago.
Nashelsky to bring mojo to MoFo
San Francisco-based law firm Morrison & Foerster has reshuffled its senior leadership, with long-time bankruptcy partner Larren Nashelsky taking over the top job.
Romney recruits ex-Akin Gump lawyer to run VP hunt
Likely Republican US presidential nominee Mitt Romney has bagged former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld litigation associate Beth Myers to conduct his search for a running mate.
Cream of New York to review legal job market
Leading New York lawyers will soon launch an investigation into the current grim employment market afflicting law graduates in the US.
Regulators unleash torrent of mobile app privacy policies
US regulators have triggered waves of privacy policies that are now washing over developers of applications used on mobile devices, a recent study has found.
Congress clashes with food watchdog over surveillance
Top lawyers from the US Food and Drug Administration are preparing to face tough questions from Congress after allegedly authorising the surveillance of agency scientists who had expressed concerns over the safety of medical products.
Cochran firm's LA office falls into receivership
The office of the late Johnnie Cochran -- the lawyer famous for successfully defending OJ Simpson -- has been placed under receivership following a dispute between partners.
First top player relocates to downtown Manhattan since attacks
The New York branch of Boston-founded law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr has become the first major legal practice to move to downtown Manhattan since the 11 September terrorist attacks in 2001.
Penn State GC made 'mistakes' in abuse investigation, says report
Former US Supreme Court justice Cynthia Baldwin has been singled out for 'missteps' taken during the investigation of former university football coach Jerry Sandusky.
US law school faces defamation counter-suit
A lawyer acting in a suit against US universities over fraud allegations has countersued the country's biggest law school for defamation, it emerged over the weekend.
Jacoby and Macey unite in America's 'most significant merger'
America's largest full service consumer firm -- Jacoby & Meyers -- has merged with Macey Bankruptcy Law, the nation's largest consumer bankruptcy practice, in what has been called the most significant merger for consumer law in US history.
Ex-Dewey partners receive $103m chapter 11 bill
Former partners of bankrupt New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf are being asked to pay the estate between $25,000 and $3 million each to build a proposed 'settlement plan' totalling $103.6 million.
Ohio judge has 'saggy pants' man arrested
A Lorain Municipal Court Judge in Ohio has held a local man in contempt because his trousers were riding so low that his underwear was exposed.
Alligator: not guilty
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a Savannah golf club and homeowners' association will not be held liable for the death of an elderly woman, whose family claims she was killed by an alligator.
Woman unleashes anger on dog law
Mississippi woman accused of stealing after taking stray home
Rapper fined for lying in 'slave wages' case
Flo Rida fined for pretending not to have received court papers.
Flying low
Californian lawyer Leonard Julius Sawyer has found himself in a spot of bother after what Forbes writer Bill Singer described as 'the flight from and to hell'.
Holmes wheels out divorce big guns
Two of mid-town Manhattan's leading family law specialists are being wheeled out by actress Katie Holmes as her divorce from Hollywood star Tom Cruise looks set to let loose a barrage of fireworks.
HTC claims patent victory over Apple
Smartphone manufacturer HTC has won a significant High Court victory over Californian rival Apple, as a London judge ruled that the Taiwan-based company had not infringed four technologies that Apple had claimed as its own.
Ex-Debevoise lawyer suspended after sex slave scandal
A former Debevoise & Plimpton associate who is currently in prison after forcing a teenage Russian boy to be his sex slave has finally been suspended from practice by a state appeals court pending disciplinary proceedings.