Practice Management

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Third Time's Not the Charm
"Spiderman, Spiderman, Doin' whatever a spider can!" Well, not really. David Malone is the third person to shimmy up the New York Times Building in the past few weeks, and the third to find New York's finest waiting for him...

Law Firm Mergers Slowing
On their face, the numbers might indicate otherwise, but law firm merger activity has slowed, according to Thomas Clay, a principal at the legal consulting firm Altman Weil whose practice focuses on, among other things, law firm mergers and acquisitions...

Paralegals Take Up the Slack
Kay Rhodes, of law firm Fox and Thomas at Goondiwindi on the NSW and Queensland border, says the firm employs three lawyers. The firm had so many shortages in the past nine years that work had to be given to...

Thomas Goldstein to Leave Akin
Thomas Goldstein, co-chair of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld?s appellate practice and the primary author of SCOTUSblog.com, is leaving Akin after five years with the firm. In about three weeks, Goldstein will rejoin the firm where he was a....

Newbie Lawyer Ready to Take on the RIAA
Back in May, Kiwi Camara, Harvard Law School's youngest admittee, and a relatively new grad with his own firm, Camara & Sibley, stepped in at the last hour to represent Jammie Thomas in the latest chapter of her epic battle with the Recording Industry Association of America...

Toy Recall
RC2 Corporation agrees to $30 million Thomas and Friends lead paint contamination class action settlement.

California Firm Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pork Products
California Firm Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pork Products

Hotel Food Poisoning
Thomson Holiday and JMC-Thomas Cook awards British travelers a £2.5 million personal injury settlement.

Colorado Firm Recalls Beef Products
Due To Possible E. coli Contamination

South Carolina Firm
Recalls Frozen Meat and Poultry Products

Firm Associate
Attorney Jay Wingate ordered to pay widow $2.5 million settlement for collected legal fees.