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It’s that time of the year again: the results for the August administration of the MPRE have been released! No emails have been sent out yet, but you can log on to the MPRE Services website and check your score.How future lawyers can be tested on their ethics in a multiple choice format is still… Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
Tags: Bar Exams, Legal Ethics, MPRE, Multistate Professional Responsbility Exam (MPRE)
* Which four firms do in-house counsel fear the most? [Law 360]* Professor Orin Kerr offers a more concise version of my analysis from yesterday of politics and Supreme Court clerk hiring, viewing the issue as a principal-agent problem. [Volokh Conspiracy via Instapundit]* Speaking of the principal-agent problem, Ted Frank explores it in the context… Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
Tags: In-House Counsel, Non-Sequiturs, Orin Kerr, Prop 8, Proposition 8, Stephen Zack, Ted Frank
To be arrested with drugs at Burning Man means you’re either hideously stupid, or just extremely unlucky. Either way it sucks to be you.For the uninitiated, the Burning Man Festival is an annual gathering that happens in the Northern Nevada desert the week before Labor Day, culminating with the cremation of a giant wooden statue,… Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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Lawyers are terrified of outsourcing, and there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of movement in the legal industry towards keeping entry level legal jobs in America.But outsourcing didn’t start with low level legal work, and so maybe the reaction against it won’t start in the legal field either. Maybe the counter movement… Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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Back in February of this year, the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) announced a minor change to its recruiting guidelines. I was underwhelmed. New associates are graduating law school in a terrible job market, firms are sick of being forced to hire people two years before they know their staffing needs, and NALP is… Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
Tags: Fall Recruiting, Job Searches, Jobs, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), OCI, Tennessee, University of Tennessee College of Law, Waller Lansden
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Hewlett-Packard's legal team will have a hard time persuading a judge to stop former CEO Mark Hurd from becoming president of Oracle Corp., employment law experts say. HP sued Hurd on Tuesday, claiming that he violated a confidentiality provision of his severance agreement by accepting the post at Oracle. Without explicitly saying so, HP's complaint relies on the doctrine of inevitable disclosure, a concept that has been shot down by some California judges.
A study of more than $4 billion worth of law firm time sheets submitted by 90,000 people at 3,500 firms portrays an industry fraught with inconsistency. About 85 percent of the lawyers charge clients different rates for the same work. The location of the biller and the size of the biller's firm -- not the biller's experience -- are the variables that most influence how much a client will pay. And while in-house counsel talk tough about keeping rates in check, they OK almost three-fourths of all timekeepers' rate hikes.
In the first appellate ruling on a cutting-edge privacy issue, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared that cell phone location data may trigger Fourth Amendment concerns and that prosecutors demanding access to such records may be required at times to satisfy a probable cause standard. The ruling is a setback for the Justice Department, but it also reverses a decision by a Pennsylvania federal court, which had ruled that prosecutors must always show probable cause to access such cell phone data.
JD Supra, a legal content syndicator, added a Legal Updates application to LinkedIn, reports attorney Ari Kaplan. The new application gives LinkedIn users access to lawyer-written articles and lends JD Supra's premium members a new channel to expose their expertise to potential clients.
The 7th Circuit, in ruling in favor of a British manufacturer of French press coffee makers, served up extensive dicta about how U.S. courts should interpret foreign law. The 7th Circuit chief judge authored the opinion in Bodum USA Inc. v. La Cafetičre Inc. and two other prominent judges weighed in with concurring opinions on the interpretation of foreign contracts. The panel affirmed a Northern District of Illinois interpretation of a 1991 French agreement between the two companies.
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