While demand for legal services rose last year, staffing at big firms lagged, resulting in the heaviest billable hours load for third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates since the economic downturn began. That probably helps explain why The American Lawyer's survey of 5,361 midlevels showed the average firm composite score declining to the lowest assoc [?]
What started off as a straightforward bankruptcy hearing for Howrey on Wednesday turned rocky as the firm's landlord threw a monkey wrench into the proceedings, and a $140 million settlement that had promised a huge contingency fee boost to the estate started unraveling. [?]
The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA, alleging the $39 billion transaction would substantially lessen competition for mobile wireless telecom services. It's a bold move for DOJ's Antitrust Division, which has been criticized for failing to stop other high-profile mergers.See related story: Doz [?]
New York City will have to settle or go to trial on claims the police engage in a widespread pattern of unconstitutional stops and frisks of black and Latino men, federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin has ruled, denying the bulk of the city's motion for summary judgment. [?]
A government lawyer who has served as in-house counsel for the White House, the Senate and the CIA, handling top-secret information in each of those roles, is being accused of leaking facts about a secret CIA program to a reporter at The New York Times. [?]
George Rudoy, of HSNO (formerly of Integrated Legal Technology), speaks with LTN's Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay about the end of isolated services in law firms. Rudoy discusses the centralization of legal technology in firms looking to modernize and meet budgets across the board. [?]
Tony Mauro talks to Robert Peck, president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation. [?]
Tom O'Connor, director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center, recently spoke to Monica Bay, LTN's editor-in-chief, about the "Ernie" challenge, a sequel to Craig Ball's 2010 "EDna" challenge. The question: What do you do when you only have a $100,000 e-discovery case budget (versus Ball's $1,000 EDna challenge)? [?]
Ted Brooks, CEO of Litigation Technology, tells Monica Bay, LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, how his team used TrialDirector in the divorce trial of Dodgers' owners Frank and Jamie McCourt to show the differences in key documents representing their marital accords. [?]
A federal judge has granted summary judgment to Merck on all but one claim leading up to the start of the latest bellwether trial over whether the bone-density drug Fosamax causes users' jaws to deteriorate. The suit is one of more than 1,500 cases consolidated in multidistrict litigation. [?]
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