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The economic downturn has taken its toll on law firms, especially lawyers. Law.com bloggers and co-hosts J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Skip Simpson from the Law Offices of Skip Simpson to explore the rash of suicides hitting the legal community and what law firms need to do to prevent them. Later in the program, Bob and Craig welcome Peter Zeughauser from the Zeughauser Group to take a look at the long-term changes in law practice caused by the recession.

Stock Exchange Agreements effectuate contractual arrangements between two parties who have agreed on the exchange of each company’s stock. This exchange is generally part of either a merger or sale of one of the companies.
A typical Stock Exchange Agreement will outline that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Company A agrees [...]

An article in last week’s Wall Street Journal Blog featured an interview with legal consultant Peter Zeughauser, who predicted a grim outlook for law firm hiring for the next few years:
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The best news story I could find, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, here about the Appeals Court in the D.C. Circuit ruling that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to FOIA requests, means that White House e-mails from the Bush administration are not required to be made public. (what a nasty sentence I made! sorry)

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The concern over a global pandemic of swine flu has been easing a bit since the first couple of weeks of its outbreak–but questions about healthcare compliance linger. In-House Legal host, Paul D. Boynton welcomes Attorney Jay Shepherd from the Shepherd Law Group to help explain what steps companies should be taking to be ready for a pandemic and what companies should be doing to ensure continued operations and to protect their employees.

The SunTrust Bank servicing rights purchase agreement with Wells Fargo Bank details the transfer of mortgage loans. The Countrywide Home Loans Inc. servicing rights purchase agreement with DB Structured Products Inc. sets the terms for the gradual purchase of residentioal mortgage loans. Both of these Servicing Rights Purchase Agreements are available in their entirety on the RealDealDocs.com website.

Well, I have gone on thinking about why I and so many other women I know have spent our married lives buying cards, flowers and other presents for our mothers in law. Despite all the talks we have with our husbands about equal sharing in the marriage, and rational-sounding statements while dating about equal rights for women, guys really are BAD about getting mother’s day gifts (and Christmas, and birthday, and Hanukkah, and whatever other gifts) for their mothers. (And their fathers, too, I guess)

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In the second edition of this two-part series on Forensic Economics, we take a look at a cost of illness study (COI) in comparison to a life care plan often used in plaintiff cases. Ringler Radio host, Larry Cohen welcomes John E. Scarbrough, Ph.D., President of Litigation Analytics Inc., who has over 25 years experience analyzing economic loss in cases involving personal injury and wrongful death. Larry and John examine real life cases and look at what happens when overstating cost of illness and explore how Medicare set-asides new rules could affect these life care plans.

I spoke about the suit between Woody Allen and American Apparel a month or so ago, and it looks like the two parties have come to an agreement.
American Apparel settled the suit with Woody Allen over unauthorized use of his image on billboards Monday with a $5 million payout.
Allen was originally seeking $10 million from [...]

The Pace Law Library has posted on YouTube a video of Judge Sonia Sotomayor speaking at the Law School’s commencement in 2003. Click here to access it. Because of the size of the file, it had to be posted in two parts. Also, it was impossible to synchronize the audio and the video. I remember that particular commencement very well because Judge Sotomayor was extremely gracious in her remarks to our graduates, and also because she was accompanied by her mother, whose pride in her daughter was obvious. Read the rest of this entry »