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News of a NJ lawyer who allegedly forged $350,000 in phony billings.  Something in the story caught my eye: the term "contract partner."  I've heard of non-equity partners, service partners, junior partners, senior partners, and so on, but "contract partner" struck me as odd.       .  .  .  .  .       We'll soon hear about a study of $4 billion in biglaw billings.  One of the not too surprising results: informed general counsel can strike hard bargains.       .  .  .  .  .       An Irish court clarifies the right of Irish barristers to be heard -- to have the "right of audience" -- when not accompanied by a solicitor.       .  .  .  .  .       The new outsourcing deal by CMS Cameron McKenna -- focusing on the firm's back-office functionality -- isn't making its current employees happy.       .  .  .  .  .       Mike Frisch, at Legal Protection Blog, comments on an order from the Arkansas Supreme Court, dealing with lawyer assistance programs. The programs strike a balance between supporting a lawyer who's trying to get her life back together and supporting the public's right to be protected from fraud.       .  .  .  .  .       Former lawyer and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced back to jail.       .  .  .  .  .       Patent lawyer makes offensive comment to Jewish witness in trial.       .  .  .  .  .       Here's an article about women making partner at biglaw.  Interesting stat: "According to statistics compiled by NALP, the Association for Legal Career Professionals, in 2009, 5.9 percent of lawyers were working part-time, and the majority of them, about 73 percent, were women."       .  .  .  .  .       The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) wants law schools to withhold LSAT data from US News & World Report, because, it's argued, over-emphasis on LSATs leads to fewer under-represented minorities in law schools.

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