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06-25-2014

Fish Richardson Brings 80 High-Paying Jobs to Minneapolis

Earlier this month Fish & Richardson announced that they will be opening an Administrative Hub in its current office space in Minneapolis where the firm has had an office for over two decades. The new administrative hub will help the law firm to save and will house the core operations of finance and....[more]
06-23-2014

NALP Shows JD Is Surely an Advantage

A Juris Doctor is still as flexible as before, and in fact, if NALP’s recent survey on 2013 class graduates are anything to go by, a JD continues to give an advantage in other jobs besides traditional legal jobs for attorneys. NALP observes in its report on Employment for the Class of 2013 that fo....[more]
06-21-2014

NYC Bar Gives Ethics Opinion on Virtual Law Offices

This week, the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics issued a formal opinion on using virtual law firm offices by New York attorneys. The topic of Formal Opinion 2014-2 was the “Use of virtual law office as a principal law office address in advertising and on business ....[more]
06-18-2014

Another Morrison & Foerster IP Lawyer Brings in Legal Writing Award

Morrison & Foerster has added yet another of their talented lawyers to the honorary roster of those who have won the prestigious Burton Award for Legal Achievement, one of the most coveted awards in the law profession, given to those who offer a stellar contribution to legal writing. Just in time fo....[more]
06-16-2014

Federal Court Throws Out Five Out of Six Claims Brought By Ogletree against FindLaw

In a matter in which Ogletree, Abbot, Clay & Reed Law Firm had sued FindLaw for not living up to its promises regarding redesigning of its website and search engine optimization, the U.S. District Court, Minnesota, dismissed five out of six claims for being vague and allowed only one. Ogletree had s....[more]
06-13-2014

The Heller Case Finishes Questions of “Unfinished Business” for Bankrupt Law Firms

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled this week in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California over “unfinished business” claims raised by the trustee of the bankrupt law firm Heller Ehrman LLP. Put simply, the federal court decided that the trustee of a bankrupt ....[more]
06-11-2014

Alternative Office Design Strategies in Law Firms: Jones Lang LaSalle Takes a Look

Jones Lang LaSalle came out with a 2014 report this week on law firm office design titled “Perspectives on law firms” and illustrating their report with the case of Baker & McKenzie ....[more]
06-09-2014

Two National Tort Law Firms Merge

Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd LLC and Hanly Conroy Bierstein Sheridan Fisher & Hayes LLP, national leaders in mass tort and complex litigation, announced last week, that the two law firms will be merging with effect from July. The new firm is named Simmons Hanly Conroy and will be hav....[more]
06-06-2014

Clearspire’s Revolutionary Journey from a Virtual Law Firm to a Legal Services Company

Clearspire, the virtual law firm that made headlines last year with its revolutionary moves of opening miniscule brick and mortar outposts and connecting all its lawyers through electronic media channels, has announced it has shut the doors of its law firm and evolving to the next plane of a legal s....[more]
06-04-2014

Law Firm Brings RICO Lawsuit against the Rainmaker Institute

A law firm, Seikaly & Stewart, recently sued The Rainmaker Institute (which touts itself as “the nation’s largest law-firm marketing provider”) for charging it thousands of dollars to increase the law firm’s visibility, when Rainmaker Institute was well aware that it was not following Google....[more]