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Primer: How “direct hire” works

December 16, 2008
/ Contract Attorney Primers
/ 1 COMMENT

Several years ago a number of firms (Covington and Crowell are only two examples) started to change the way they used staffing agencies for projects. They took the temporary attorneys onto their payroll

Siemens to Pay $1.34 Billion in Fines

Siemens, the German engineering giant, agreed Monday to pay a record total of $1.6 billion to American and European authorities to settle charges that it routinely used bribes and slush funds to secure

Trends in the contract attorney market

December 15, 2008
/ Contract Attorney Market: Trends Europe
/ 6 COMMENTS

We spent the last 9 days in Chicago, D.C., NYC and Philadelphia. We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments

Skadden Restructuring Co-Head Decamping for Lazard

December 15, 2008
/ Bankruptcy

From: The American Lawyer, December 15, 2008 Timothy Pohl, one of three co-heads of Skadden Arps’ 100-lawyer corporate restructuring group, announced on Thursday that he will leave the firm next

LPOs find more work, but less favor among law grads

December 14, 2008
/ India/Offshoring
/ 1 COMMENT

From sammylive.com: Dec 14, 2008 The Indian legal process outsourcing might be on a high with rising influx of offshore assignments amid the financial turmoil, but the sector still finds less favour

Axiom Opens in Washington, Bucks Big Law Traditions

December 12, 2008
/ Changing Legal Landscape
/ 1 COMMENT

From: The BLT: The Blog of the Legal Times, December 11, 2008 There’s a new law office on 24th St. N.W. and M St. in Washington, DC, but you won’t find any partners roaming the halls. There

India Work Grows, With Glitches

December 11, 2008
/ India/Offshoring

From the National Law Journal (with a hat tip to Gabes Guide for alerting us to the story): Just a few years ago, outsourcing legal work to India was a dirty little secret — law firms did it, but

Outsourcing No Longer a Dirty Little Secret

December 10, 2008
/ India/Offshoring

From: The National Law Journal, December 10, 2008 Just a few years ago, outsourcing legal work to India was a dirty little secret — law firms did it, but few admitted to it. Those days are long

Advised by Sidley Austin, Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy

December 9, 2008
/ Bankruptcy

The Tribune Co. has filed for bankruptcy, aided by the law firm Sidley Austin. The Chicago Tribune, a newspaper owned by the company, reported the bankruptcy filing Monday afternoon. The petition was filed

Countrywide Securities Suit Dismissal Motions Substantially Denied; Allows Greater Prospect for Subprime Litigation

December 3, 2008
/ Contract Attorney Primers
/ 1 COMMENT

We try to provide news stories that are related to the contract attorney industry as much as we can: a trend in the industry, current litigation/projects, or a “primer” on an area of law, for

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