law practice
Abogadomovil - Big Law Refugees Take the Road Less Travelled in New Practice
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution profiles three former big law refugees who left practice at King & Spalding to start up an unusual practice in Law firm takes immigration fight to streets.
When Cherokee County barred landlords from renting to illegal immigrants last year, Hernan, Taylor & Lee filed suit and got the county to back off. In […]
More on the Billable Hour, Charting Your Own Course
I recent wrote about the billable hour here in The Death of the Billable Hour, Wishing Does Not Make it So. Susan Cartier Liebel left a comment with a link to her excellent post The Cockroach of the Legal Profession - The Billable Hour. The most surprising fact - one that many lawyers are not […]
The Death of the Billable Hour, Wishing Does Not Make it So
Scott Turow notes that “[f]or too many litigators, our life increasingly is a highly paid serfdom—a cage of relentless hours, ruthless opponents, constant deadlines and merciless inefficiencies.” His culprit? The Billable Hour.
When I left the government for private practice in 1986, the hours expectation for young lawyers was 1,750-1,800 hours a year in the large […]
Profits v Partner, Is Law a Business or a Profession?
From David Lat’s article in the New York Observer Profits vs. Partners
One can argue over whether it’s a good or bad thing, and one can also argue about how long it has been going on. But most observers agree that large law firms are becoming more business-oriented, more focused on efficiency and profits—in short, more […]
The Law Firms Working Group, Empirical Analysis of Law Practice
Bill Henderson, law professor and blogger extraordinaire at The Empirical Legal Studies Blog has launched The Law Firms Working Group Website at the University of Indiana Law Center. The goal of the project is to “advance our knowledge and understanding of law firms, and private practice generally, through systematic and collaborative empirical research.”
The Working Group […]
Part-time Lawyer, Full-time Mother
Big law firms are not known as great places to work for women in general, particularly so for women who are trying to balance work and family. The arguments for why this is the case oscillate from the questions of why Big Law Los[es] Women Lawyers to Other Jobs and Why Do So Few Women […]
Volokh et al on working Appellate Practice
The ever-resourceful Eugene Volokh has recently had a number of posts on how to break into appellate practice - Breaking into Appellate Law and More on Breaking into Appellate Law, from a Sole Practitioner Appellate Lawyer Friend of Mine. Be sure to peruse the comments for some excellent insight as well.
Allow me to distill an […]
Deliberations Blog takes on Issues of Jurors who Blog
Anne Reed’s Deliberations Blog has a fascinating account of the Bad Blogging Juror in People v. McNeely. Apparently Juror No. 8 in a 2006 California burglary trial lied about being an attorney in voir dire and then proceeded to blog about his rather heavy-handed attempts to manipulate his fellow-jurors into a quick conviction.
[F]or the next […]
Go Away Young Man, Proximity to Local Law School Associated with Lower Incomes for Small Firm Lawyers
The Empirical Legal Studies Blog has a fascinating post on Regional Law Schools and Lawyer Income. Bill Henderson takes a look at average attorney earnings in legal markets in and around Indiana and comes to a somewhat surprising conclusion - “After controlling for all of the above factors, proximity to a local law school is […]
Car Crash Lawyers - Mary Flood swims with the sharks
Mary Flood swims with the sharks on the Legal Trade Blog and at the Houston Chronicle, ahead of some upcoming CLE courses entitled “THE CAR CRASH SEMINAR”. The subject of advertising came up, as it must in all conversations about Jim Adler.
Donald Kidd, a former Fulbright & Jaworski lawyer who works with Adler, said the […]