http://legal-jobs-websites.com Legal Jobs | Attorney Jobs | Lawyer Jobs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:30:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In these troubled economic times, fixed fees for particular legal matters have appeal for law firms and their corporate clients. Ben W. Heineman Jr., former GC for General Electric, and William F. Lee, co-managing partner for WilmerHale, strongly believe that this is an idea whose time has come. Fixed fees ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/02/two-veteran-lawyers-say-now-is-the-time-for-fixed-fees/ Hard times bring opportunities, and the network of small and midsize law firms called Meritas hopes that more general counsel come knocking as their companies look for ways to cut costs. Cost savings isn't the only reason to use one of Meritas' 170 firms, which are based in more than ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/02/network-of-small-midsize-firms-look-for-opportunity-in-hard-times/ Jenner and Block's Michael K. Lowman and Andrew F. Merrick examine SEC v. Founding Partners Capital Mgmt., a recent federal court ruling that significantly curtails the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue ill-gotten gains from relief defendants in an SEC enforcement action. The ruling is significant for ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/02/founding-partners-decision-shows-limits-of-secs-power-over-relief-defendants/ New York state is launching an investigation into whether some traders used illegal tactics to drive down the stock price of several Wall Street firms, including Lehman Brothers Holdings, Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley. AG Andrew Cuomo said his office has received a "significant number" of complaints about short ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/01/ny-attorney-general-launches-probe-of-short-selling-amid-market-upheaval/ In what could be a precedent-setting move, the district court judge in the prosecution of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has ordered the Justice Department to publish defense trial exhibits on a government Web site. The firm representing Stevens, Williams & Connolly, had argued that it doesn't have the same resources ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/01/doj-ordered-to-post-defense-exhibits-online-for-sen-stevens-trial/ Plaintiffs seeking to derail Sen. John McCain's presidential bid by claiming he is not a natural born U.S. citizen are being stymied by four Washington, D.C.-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher associates. Aided by former U.S. Solicitor General and current Gibson Dunn partner Theodore Olson, the team of legal volunteers has ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/01/gibson-dunn-associates-fight-for-mccain-in-suits-over-citizenship/ About 42 percent of practicing attorneys said the recent collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch would hurt their careers, up from 27 percent who expressed similar detrimental effect when the government bailed out the former Bear Stearns earlier this year, according to a survey by legal ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/01/effects-of-financial-collapse-worry-lawyers-law-students/ With no fanfare, the U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its controversial audit of 2,500 green card cases handled by the nation's largest immigration law firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy. In June, the department issued a press release to announce its audit of the firm's permanent labor certification ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/01/labor-department-drops-green-card-audit-of-nations-largest-immigration-law-firm/ The scope of a property owner's obligation to make a public accommodation accessible to the disabled when alterations are made to the property was fleshed out Thursday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Reversing a lower court, the circuit said a resort in Montauk, N.Y., underwent significant enough ... http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/01/2nd-circuit-finds-alterations-may-open-resort-to-disabilities-act/ http://legal-jobs-websites.com/2012/01/which-firm-might-be-on-a-potential-wamu-sale/