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Working Mother Magazine Names Second Annual 50 Best Law Firms for Women
The second-annual list of the best law firms for women, published by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers, highlights fewer Pennsylvania-based firms this year. The unranked list of the 50 best firms in the nation named Fox Rothschild and Morgan Lewis & Bockius as some of the best law firms for women based on several criteria...

Four L.A. firms make NLJ's 2008 Appellate Hot List
Four Los Angeles-based law firms made it onto The National Law Journal's first annual Appellate Hot List. The unscientific survey picked firms with at least one significant appellate win since January 2007 and an impressive track record overall...

Five Law Firms Make Fortune's List of 'Best Companies to Work For'
Even with all of the groaning about the horrors of biglaw life, five law firms made Fortune Magazine's annual list of "Best Companies to Work For." As Law.com reports, the five featured firms are: Alston & Bird; Arnold & Porter;...

Gibson Dunn makes top 10 list of family friend firms
Yale Law Women named Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn among its top 10 family friendly firms in its third annual survey, The American Lawyer reported (here). The group sent a 35-question survey to 100 top firms and provided an unranked list...

Job market looking bleak for "firmies"
For my classmates who are looking to work in big firms after graduation, things aren't looking so good this year. Only one or two local firms were on the 3L OCI list. That means that these people might actually have to use their brains, and come up with a list of firms and addresses to send *gasp* snail mail resumes and cover letters to...

Working Mother's Top 50 Firms List Is Out
Working Mother magazine has released its list of the top 50 best law firms for women. The evaluation criteria include not just raw numbers and worklife flexibilty for lawyers of both sexes but also mentoring, networking, and management training for...

DC Madame Phone List
Telephone Records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service (Pamela Martin and Associates)

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

Exotic Meats USA
Announces Urgent Statewide Recall of Elk Tenderloin

Energy Price Gouging
Inergy Propane announces refunds to customers as part of lawsuit settlement.

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.

$5.4 Million Quebec Breast Cancer Wait List Class Action Settlement Approved
$5.4 Million Quebec Breast Cancer Class Action Settlement Approved