While so many firms are making the news for layoffs, a number of plaintiffs firms with securities class action practices are hiring associates. For instance, thanks to an influx of large financial and securities fraud cases  Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann (in New Orleans, New York City and SanDiego) has added eight associates firmwide since mid-2008.   In [...]

Like the rest of the bar, the Antitrust Division experienced exponential growth in the amount of documents and information responsive to its Second Requests and CIDs. Recently, the Antitrust Division has completed several investigations with productions just under or slightly above one million records. As a result, Antitrust Division spending on its electronic storage capacity [...]

This week’s “Top 10″ electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies: 1. Required eDiscovery Reading for Attorneys – http://tinyurl.com/da4bwc 2. Reducing the Costs of Privilege Reviews and Logs — http://tinyurl.com/dmv7cy 3. Is a Hosted Review Model Right for You? — http://tinyurl.com/cr79bk 4.  Report finds nearly twice as many subprime-related lawsuits filed in 2008 as 2007 — http://tinyurl.com/chewvc [...]

  The greatest client memo … ever The Am Law Daily encourages you to go to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s client memo Web page right now to see if the single most bizarre memo we’ve ever seen is still up there — because we suspect it may not have a long life span. The memo [...]

  Appeals Court Rejects Recruiter’s Suit Seeking Fee From Law Firm A legal recruiter cannot collect a fee of nearly $730,000 from Philadelphia-based Blank Rome in connection with a merger the law firm first rejected and then completed with the assistance of a competing placement firm, a New York appeals court has ruled. In an [...]

  Two Skadden partners, Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes, announced to the firm’s associates that they’re jumping ship to form their own law firm, BuckleySandler.   Sandler assured associates that his exit was motivated by a desire for change rather than concern about the firm’s stability. But some aren’t so sure and say this move has significant implications for Big Law. [...]

The job market for lawyers, hit hard by the recession, seems to reach new lows every day. But that has not done much to discourage the thousands who are lining up to become the next generation of attorneys. In seeming defiance of logic, many law schools are surging in popularity. At Washington and Lee University [...]

The Office of the Nassau County Attorney has launched a program where lawyers can volunteer in one of the county’s litigation bureaus.  According to Martha Krisel, chief deputy county attorney for special projects, while the office would prefer attorneys with experience, lawyers at all levels, including recent law-school graduates, may apply. Lawyers would have the [...]

Law firms are cutting down on everything from technology and outside marketing assistance to recruiters and consultants, experts say. When not outright eliminating those costs, firms are looking to renegotiate contracts to get better deals – which translates into less money coming into law-centric businesses. For full article click here.

For those of you who are following/want to follow the carnage at BigLaw the blogger “Above the Law” has linked up with “Lawschucks” to provide a “layoff tracker”. See these links: http://abovethelaw.com/2009/03/this_week_in_layoffs_031409.php http://lawshucks.com/layoff-tracker