Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

The Careerist: Hire, Fire, Hire Again.
Firms need bodies. Laid-off lawyers need jobs. Easy match, right? It raises an obvious question: Why won't firms hire back some of their own laid-off talent?

SMU Offers to Pay Law Firms $3,500 to Hire its Grads (and Goose its U.S. News Ranking)
Above the Law, SMU Will Pay You To Hire Their Graduates, by Elie Mystal: SMU Dedman School of Law is now officially willing to pay law firms to hire SMU graduates. The school is calling its new program ?Test Drive...

Treasury & IRS Release 2011-12 Priority Guidance Plan
The Treasury Department and IRS today released the 2011-2012 Priority Guidance Plan: The 2011?2012 Priority Guidance Plan contains 317 projects that are priorities for allocation of the resources of our offices during the twelve-month period from July 2011 through June 2012 (the plan year)...

Where Do the Most Elite Law Firms Go to Hire New Lawyers
Brian Leiter (Chicago) has the answer on his Law School Rankings website. His study shows how little impact U.S. News rankings have on where the firms choose to hire and how much geography matters once you get outside the ranks...

The Top 15 Schools From Which the Most Prestigious Law Firms Hire
LeiterRankings.com offers this report that seeks to answer this question: “Where do the most elite law firms in the United States go to hire new lawyers?” Visit Site » Share This

Hey, We Can Train Em Better Than Law Firms! HP Decides to Hire, Train First-Years
Deputy general counsel Gabriel Buigas says the tech giant can compete on equal footing with big law firms ? and do a better job developing them for in-house roles than the firms can...

Traditional and Roth 401Ks
Selecting the right Retirement Plan

H&R Block Retirement Plan Fraud
How to Join Class Action Suit

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

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.

Nortel
faces class action over changes to employee pension plan

Yellow Freight Pension Plan
alleging ERISA violations

Health Plan Boycott
Connecticut chiropractic groups to pay $87,000 fine in civil suit.

WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan - Partial Preliminary Settlement
WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan Partial Preliminary Settlement