The first 6 months of 2010 have come and gone.  Are you still struggling with the same issues you had in January? Are you still grappling with the same un-made decisions? If your practice is at a standstill, read on. Lawyers are brilliant at gathering and analyzing information, but information alone doesn’t yield results. Without [...]

So many Posse List members have their own websites and are doing their own “client grabbing” and marketing we thought this webinar would be of high interest.  As part of his “30-Minute Thursdays” series, Ari Kaplan has a free webinar today at 1pm EDT  with guest presenter, Matt Dombrow, an attorney and founder of Clixo, [...]

A contract lawyer is suing Labaton Sucharow alleging that the law firm violated federal labor laws by not paying time-and-a-half for overtime.  The contract lawyer, Moshe Koplowitz, said that Labaton Sucharow did not pay him at a higher rate when he worked more than 40 hours in a week.  Koplowitz has been doing contract work for a number of [...]

6 July 2010 —  There is an interesting article in today’s The Legal Intelligencer about the increasing use of using “project attorneys” and “contract attorneys” to handle an increased workload on shrinking budgets.  Bringing on specialized, experienced attorneys for six months to a year to handle one set project in their area of expertise has become [...]

22 June 2010 —  Some interesting stuff from the recently published Altman Weil survey of leaders of law firms with more than 50 lawyers.  Forty-four percent of the firms laid off associates last year, 53 percent reduced or discontinued hiring first-year associates, and 64 percent shrunk their summer associate programs.  This year, 10 percent of the [...]

There is a very good legal blog brought to our attention by Legal Blog Watch called Balkinization.  Lots of great posts on the law and the legal profession. Recently they ran a story on the growing legion of Scambloggers who want to keep you from going to law school.  And they profiled and quoted none other but St. Johns University School [...]

  According to an article in today’s law.com, the key defendants in the BP oil spill litigation, key defendants have lined up three prominent Florida law firms to defend against spill cases in Florida.  Akerman Senterfitt (Florida’s largest law firm) snagged BP and will handle all its Florida civil litigation. Cameron International (the manufacturer of [...]

New Loan Repayment Program for Civil Legal Aid Attorneys Apply by August 16 to participate in the U.S. Department of Education’s new Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Student Loan Repayment Program. Successful applicants will receive $6,000 in loan repayment assistance in exchange for a three-year service commitment and may receive a lifetime maximum of $40,000 if [...]

Oil, oil, oil, oil …. As has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, Lawyer Weekly and various other sources, companies that potentially face civil or criminal liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have hired a large cast of outside legal help, including former high-level government attorneys and a top product-liability lawyer.  BP [...]

In follow-up to the success of its live certification program in D.C. and NYC, Catalyst is rolling out  its Catalyst CR Certified Reviewers program (CRCR) to LA next week.  CRCR is the certification program for Catalyst CR (for information on the software click here) which is gaining significant market share and being requested by many corporations and law firms due to [...]