No kidding! "According to financial data provided to The Legal Intelligencer, Reed Smith saw a 21 percent increase in profits per partner in 2005, jumping from $662,000 in 2004 to $800,000 last year. "The firm said its revenue for 2005 was $563 million, a 12 percent increase over the $504 million in revenue in 2004. "Firm chairman Gregory B. Jordan attributed the improving...
Malcolm Kushner, “America’s Favorite Humor Consultant,” is an internationally acclaimed expert on humor & communication. A co-creator of the humor exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Kushner has also written several books, including Public Speaking for Dummies, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Other publications are: Presentations for Dummies, The Light Touch: How to...
Another point of view about saving information. This article is in favor, but that might have something to do with the subject of this publication from Jupitermedia: "Archiving is certainly one of the hottest areas of storage right now. It lies at the heart of a subject that is near, though perhaps not so dear, to the heart of every storage manager — retaining a legion of records to comply...
Compelling question raised by this India Financial Express article, but we're not sure its background facts are correct: "Although there are no accurate estimates of the size of the sector in India, what is certain is that only a small percentage (2-3%) of the global demand has been tapped. For instance, in the US alone, the legal sector is estimated to be worth $166 billion, employing...
Council member Susan Wiltulski for Beatrice, Nebraska is also a paralegal: “'I've enjoyed seeing the progress the city has made in the three and a half years I've been on the council,'” Witulski said. “'Certainly we've made some strides in economic development and bringing groups together for that, but there is much more to be done.'”"The 32-year-old paralegal with the Lepant Law...
We've discussed this topic before so it's quite surprising that so few employers have published policies on blogging! "Weblogs are booming, but the latest survey conducted by the Employment Law Alliance, a large network of employment and labor lawyers, is reporting that only about 15% of employers have specific policies addressing work-related blogging."It is estimated that as many as...
Good overview of the surging e-discovery field. Reporting by the Los Angeles Times: "Day and night, rows of whirring, blinking computers sock away enormous batches of digital records sent by companies involved in lawsuits. Other data are discovered deep in hard drives — wedged between personal e-mails, pornography and other files— by Kroll Ontrack forensic teams whose code names keep...
So says The Recorder about raises for associate attorneys: "As firms across the country lift associate salaries, some are opting to pay the same in all U.S. offices outside New York, while others still pay less in secondary markets like Philadelphia, Atlanta or Miami. "Those with the one-salary-fits-all approach -- like Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Morrison & Foerster -- tend to...
Good to-think-about article from Legal Technology. After clicking on the article link, be sure to scroll down to the section titled "Surfing Anonymously in the Legal World": "Anonymity is a scarce treasure in this day and age. Considering all the information associated with credit cards, mortgage documents and frequent buyer cards at your local grocery store, it's alarming how much...
Congratulations to Danny Mills for all his hard work serving the public! " Mills, an outreach worker for Pine Tree Legal Assistance since 1999, was drawn to the job not because he was a champion for justice. He just wanted an opportunity to speak the language of his maternal grandparents more often. "'I like things to be fair,'" Mills, 48, said recently when asked what he found...