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Career Center: Advice for Midlevel Associates Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Welcome to the latest article in the Ask The Experts series, brought to you by the ATL Career Center , powered by Lateral Link . This week’s experts include Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella , Mike Woronoff of Proskauer Rose , and Vivian Yang, General Counsel at Citysearch , who served as panelists on the Career Center’s Professional Development panel for mid-level associates on long-term career planning, partnership prospects and in-house careers. The panelists shared a lot of valuable information, so we’re making this a two-part article.
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Career Center: Advice for Midlevel Associates
Industry law firm Davis Wright Tremaine will offer two free online seminars to help answer broadcasters’ questions when it comes to the tricky legal issues of social media sites. According to attorney and Davis Wright … Once you do, you’ ll see our news updates in your Facebook News Feed and can instantly respond and discuss each article with us and your fellow RAIN readers! Be sure to share your thoughts on our Facebook presence as well.
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter: RAIN 11/23: Law firm to …
In Duopolies, web usability, and legal research instruction, Tom Boone, reference librarian and adjunct professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, highlights the consequences of the current structure of the WEXIS-dominated legal database search market. “The West/Lexis duopoly doesn’t…
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On "Tabs and Sidebars War" and the Prospect for Improved WEXIS Usability in a Duopoly
From the book description of Joan Biskupic’s American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nov. 10, 2009): If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is…
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SCOTUS Has Never Seen the Likes of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia: First Full-Scale Biography Published
Bonus season is now in full swing. Sources report that Willkie Farr has announced bonuses and it is matching the Cravath scale . Here’s the breakdown from a tipster: From: The Executive Committee To: ASSOCIATES – NY; ASSOCIATES – DC Cc: PARTNERS – FIRMWIDE Sent: Fri Nov 20 11:11:01 2009 Subject: 2009 Associate Bonuses The Executive Committee is pleased to announce the following year-end bonuses for associates: Class of 2008: $7,500 Class of 2007: $10,000 Class of 2006: $15,000 Class of 2005: $20,000 Class of 2004: $25,000 Class of 2003: $30,000 Class of 2002 and senior: $30,000 Bonuses will be paid on December 18, 2009, consistent with our customary practices
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Associate Bonus Watch: Willkie Matches Cravath and Full-Cravath
The ABA has launched Media Alerts on Federal Courts of Appeals, a pilot program designed to provide reporters, lawyers, educators, and the public with prompt, accurate, unbiased information about newsworthy and legally significant cases pending in and decided by the…
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ABA Launches Pilot Program: Media Alerts on Federal Courts of Appeals Covers Third, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits
President Obama seems to have made up his mind about the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed circus trial that will be coming to a New York courthouse near you. The Associate Press reports (gavel bang: ABA Journal ): Obama, in a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, said those offended by the legal rights accorded Mohammed by virtue of his facing a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won’t find it “offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.” I’ve argued that Obama isn’t as cool as everybody makes him out to be, but that was certainly some cold-ass rhetoric.
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Obama: Starting to Get the Hang of This Whole ‘Prejudging’ Thing
NYU Asia Law Society and Chinese Business Lawyers Association, Inc. Cordially invite you to attend Asia Private Practice A Panel Discussion with Leading Practitioners on Practice in and Related to Asia Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:00-8:00 pm Followed by breakout sessions with panelists and other experienced practitioners at New York University Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South, Room 214 Panelists: Jonathan Pan , Managing Partner, NYC Office, King & Wood Toby Myerson , Partner, Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Puneet Arora (LLM, 2001) Principal/Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Evan Jowers , Kinney Recruiting, Author of the Asia Chronicles at Above the Law.com Francis Zou , Senior Counsel, NYC Office, Allen & Overy LLP Nan-I Chen , Senior in-House Counsel, Barclays Capital The entrance is free to law students and CBLA members and $15 for others
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The Asia Chronicles: NYU Asia Law Society and Chinese Business Lawyers Association Event
Sensible shoes are for liberal chicks. Say hello to fabulous Federalist footwear! As you may have noticed, from our two posts late on Monday night and one from Tuesday morning, we’re engaging in some after-the-fact blogging of last week’s Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention . As in past years, the social highlight of the conference was the Thursday night banquet (black tie optional; and many availed themselves of the option, ’cause that’s how conservatives roll).
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The Federalist Society Annual Dinner: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Century City-based law firm Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff Incorporated represents clients in matters involving bankruptcy, reorganization and capital recovery; business litigation and dispute resolution; corporate and securities; estate planning and trust litigation; family law ; intellectual property, advertising and promotions; Internet and new media; labor and employment; and real estate. For more than one-third of a century, the firm has represented ..
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Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff Attorney Listed Among Los Angeles Business …
I like it when judges show a sense of humor. It gives me metaphysical joy when judges refuse to act like legal automatons, and it makes my job easier. Hennepin County District Judge Stephen Aldrich is a man who understands that court proceedings need not be devoid of the occasional one-liner: Three weeks ago in family court, reviewing a domestic violence order for protection, a transcript shows Judge Aldrich telling the husband and wife, “I’ve been married 45 years.
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Judge of the Day: Minnesota Judge Brings The Funny
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* Judge Diane Cannon — no relation to actress Dyan Cannon (who played a judge on Ally McBeal) — benchslaps Sidley Austin for its brief in the high-profile case involving Northwestern University journalism students fighting a subpoena for their records and grades. [ National Law Journal ] * Speaking of journalistic freedom, was prior restraint applied to a high school newspaper — by Justice Kennedy? [ New York Times ] * Meet John Galligan, the lawyer who will be representing the accused Fort Hood shooter.
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Morning Docket: 11.11.09
Congratulations to Williams & Connolly and Hughes Hubbard & Reed , the firms that represented Matthew Tannin, and Brune & Richard , the litigation boutique that represented Ralph Cioffi. Not Guilty! [Dealbreaker] Breaking News: Bear Defendants Found Not Guilty on All Charges [WSJ Law Blog] BREAKING: Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers Not Guilty [Am Law Daily] Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers NOT Guilty On All Counts [Business Insider] Hedge fund – Business – Investing – Funds – Bear Stearns
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Acquittals for Two Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers
Frankly, this is the kind of scheme that Detective Jimmy McNulty would have come up with. The Legal Intelligencer reports : In a case of first impression, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled last week that state troopers committed “outrageous government conduct” when investigating alleged prostitution at a massage parlor in the Lehigh Valley by giving money to an undercover informant to have sex four times with two different women at the parlor. You read that correctly
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Police Pay Informant to Frequent Prostitutes. Court Cries Foul.
This was the “bang for your buck” section of LLB’s Rate Your Legal Resources Vendors Survey. In view of the current state of library economics, the issue is important to put it mildly
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LLB’s Rate Your Legal Resources Vendors Survey: Findings on Reasonableness of Annual Price Increases for Products and Services Offered by BNA,…
The recently launched Google Dashboard is the place to go to learn what Google knows about you and those of your online habits tied to your Google account. It’s also a great way to manage your Google account-Google services tie-in….
Putting Out Westlaw OnePass Fires: The West Way to Customer Service — Better Late Than Never But Not as Good as a Timely Heads-Up Friday, November 6th, 2009So do you think sometime last week West’s Lori Hedstrom (Marketing Manager, Librarian Relations) was planning to submit a message about the OnePass rollout to the pll-sis and law-lib listsersv yesterday afternoon? Or did it take Greg Lambert’s Nov.
Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter Wednesday, June 24th, 2009The follow is the text of a speech by David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief Reuters News, to the International Olympics Committee Press Commission on June 23. On May 29th, James Coleman of Bristol smacked his skull on a tree branch while filing updates to the Twitter service (or tweeting) from his Blackberry during a run. His accident spawned a new word: a “Twinjury”.
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Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter
I was invited to a gathering of activists, academics and media practitioners by the Berkman Centre’s Media:Republic program in LA last weekend. Exhilarating to be in such exalted company but depressing to find them so anxious about the future of political engagement and so negative about big Media’s future. The context of the meeting was to establish what we don’t understand about the emerging media landscape in order to inform the direction of future research programmes.
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More questions than answers
We started our User Generated Content site You Witness about nine months ago and I’m happy to report that it is doing well. Our weekly slideshows are steadily getting better and, together with the very popular Reuters Photographers blog, our goal of building a community around pictures is slowly but surely becoming a reality. We have had some major successes in the past few weeks – pictures from the Sao Paulo plane crash were not used on the regular Reuters pictures wire, which is used by newspapers, websites and some magazines and broadcasters, but only because our own content was exceptionally strong
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User generated photos on Reuters
That’s a distinct possibility for me after chairing a discussion on communities and journalism at the World Editors Forum in Cape Town on Tuesday. I use blogs and social networking sites like Facebook – but I’m 47 so I’m hardly the future. The point of the session was to get people thinking about what really lies ahead for journalism in the generation after me – and after that
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Fancy having 500 newspaper editors as Facebook buddies?
I went to an interesting session at Chatham House on Monday, where Harvards Professor Joseph Nye spoke on soft power in the information age. Soft power is a concept Nye has theorized about that deals with ones ability to persuade and attract others to do what you want, rather than coerce them through the hard power of force. At one point he bemoaned the fact that the news during his stay in London had been dominated by turkeys and not Turkey, referring to the blanket coverage in local media about an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu on a farm in rural England and a relative absence of foreign news
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News about turkeys, not Turkey
How closely can journalists work with combatant forces in a war and still remain independent and impartial? That’s a question dozens of news organisations – including Reuters – have been asking ever since the start of the Iraq War in 2003, when the practice of “embedding” with US and British forces became commonplace. Just in the last couple of weeks, we made a decision to embed one of our French television crews, Laurent Hamida, with British forces in Afghanistan, and he has agreed to describe his experience and answer your questions about how he goes about his job. As news editors, one of the most worrying decisions is sending such staff into war zones.
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