The Trayvon Martin muder case appears to be everywhere, with the cable stations covering the trial gavel to gavel. Certainly many issues raised in the case, including the appropriateness of Florida's "stand your ground" law and of course the racial overtones to the proceeding. If...
From a human perspective, it is extremely sad to hear that venerable law firm powerhouse Weil Gotshal & Manges has decided on massive lawyer and staff layoffs, along with major reductions in pay for 10% of its partners. On Monday they announced letting go 60...
Thanks to website www.abovethelaw.com, we learn of a lawyer in New Jersey getting quite some attention. Apparently his client, Jack Frievald, a losing candidate for office in West Orange, NJ, operates a website called westorange.info, including information about the area. The town's lawyer sent a cease-and-desist...
The ABA Journal reports that the law school graduating class of 2012 had it pretty much as bad as the 2011 folks when it comes to finding work. Fully nine months after graduation only a little more than half of the new grads had a job...
New York federal Judge William H. Pauley III may have started the end of most unpaid internships. In a decision yesterday, he ruled in favor of two Fox movie interns who were emptying garbage and getting coffee for no money. He basically followed US Department...
Very possibly the most significant development of the last century, possibly forever, is the advent of the Internet, email and computer technology. They have dramatically changed how just about all business is done for sure. Before all this, back when I started practicing law at a...
The Law School Admission Council reports an over 13% drop in applications to law schools this year as against last year. That's the third annual drop in a row. Roughly 56,000 have applied this year, this according to The Washington Post. As we know there are several...
A pro-Nazi New Jersey man, Heath Campbell, thinks the state unfairly discriminated against him when they took his child away just 16 hours after being born and previously took away his three older children. This after he named another child Adolf Hitler Campbell. The news...
The ABA Journal reports about a precedent setting appeals court ruling. Michael Eric Hedlund still owed $85,000 in student loans although he graduated law school back in 1997. A bankruptcy court ruled that since he made a good faith effort to cut expenses and pay the bills, $53,000...
The lawyers at big law firm Skadden Arps had a daunting task, according to the ABA Journal. Working on Disney's acquisition of Star Wars creator Lucasfilm last year, they had to check whether Lucas actually owned the rights to more than 10,000 characters in the various films. The partner...