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Two Yale University Law School professors have suggested that law schools pay struggling first-years to leave. At the root of the proposal is the notion that law schools do not fairly represent the past successes and failures of prior students, which prevents prospective students from making a fully informed decision to attend law school.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views
The aftermath of a bloody civil war might not seem like the best time to start doing business again in Libya. But Italian lawyers were already returning to the North African nation even before former leader Muammar el-Qaddafi was captured. They intend to capitalize on the deep historic and economic ties between the two countries.Visit International News
Law firms have only scratched the surface in harnessing the full potential that technology can provide, says Chadbourne COO Hal M. Stewart, who describes nine innovative applications for law firms that embrace technology as a tool to improve performance and cost efficiency.
A New York judge has refused to consider whether the prenuptial agreement a couple signed in New York can be applied to their pending divorce in Singapore. "All of the issues related to both actions can be resolved in Singapore; the same is not true in New York," wrote Acting Supreme Court Justice Laura E. Drager.
A Philadelphia ordinance banning the posting of signs on city utility poles, traffic signals and trees is not unconstitutional, the 3rd Circuit has decided. The panel ruled that the ordinance was content-neutral and narrowly tailored to serve a government interest.
A mother facing deportation who feared she would be beaten or killed for trying to protect her grade school-age daughter from genital mutilation in Senegal has won a reprieve from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A New York state judge has hit HSBC Bank with a maximum $10,000 sanction and a Rochester law firm with a $5,000 sanction in a case where he already dismissed with prejudice a foreclosure action and unsuccessfully demanded that a top HSBC executive appear at a sanctions hearing.
In the latest settlement in a massive antitrust case against major airlines that has yielded almost $500 million in settlement awards to date, freight forwarders and companies that ship goods by air won $15.8 million from El Al Israel Airlines.
Lots of news broke out about legal education during the past year. Unfortunately for law schools, much of it was bad. Here are the top 10 law school stories of 2011, including unexpected dean departures and law schools that reported falsely high credentials for incoming students.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has granted summary judgment in one of the first cases to address the heightened standard for false patent-marking claims under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. Robert Nissen, lead counsel for the defendant, explains how the sweeping new patent law affected his case.
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