- First Task for Law-Firm Hires: Finding an Interim Job First – WSJ.com – BigLaw deferrals get the MSM treatment. Nothing you didn't already know, other than what a handful of particular individuals have been doing during the gap.
- Law.com – Did Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis Listen to His Lawyers? – A little more information on why Mayopolous, about whom we wrote recently, may have been fired. Lewis didn't like listening to lawyers, apparently.
- Nixon Peabody Hiring Partner: Student Recruitment Model Is ‘Antiquated’ | ABA Journal – Law News Now – Yawn. Congratulations on noticing the obscenely obvious. Still no actual plan, though. BTW, the answer to the question is "lower their rates." The tricky part comes after that (how much do you pay them, how do you retain them, why are the creme de la creme of legal practice also the training grounds, etc.).
- Venture Law Group Founder Craig Johnson Dies at 62 – Johnson was part of some of the more-innovative law-firm structuring in recent memory. First with VLG then VLP.
- Report: Feds Probing Greenberg Traurig’s Ties to Allen Stanford – Law Blog – WSJ – No word on what the inquiry is about, but the firm has long ties to the Antigua banking system, which was at the center of Stanford's shenanigans.
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