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Rodrigo González Fernández y un grupo de egresados de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad la Republica en Chile ha decidido poner al alcance de todo el mundo de la profesion legal importantes materias en Ingles para ir practicando el trabajo en materia de Tratados internacionales y que nuestra profesión estará en primera linea. Invitamos a todos a opinar, debatir, participar activamente.Es el primer blog legal en inglés de latinoamerica.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Friday, June 26, 2009

lawyerschile: China Suspends 1,000 Lawyers

China Suspends 1,000 Lawyers

When I posted about the disbarment threats to lawyers in Beijing, only 20 faced a risk of losing their livelihoods. Turns out that the situation is far worse, with the Beijing Administration of Judicial Lawyers suspending the licenses of over 1,000 lawyers and 90 law firms for failing to pass a newly concocted registration exam, reports New York-based New Tang Dynasty Television.

According to the article, Shanghai human rights lawyer Ma Tianlin believes the suspension of licenses is retaliation by the Beijing Justice Bureau over the fact that many Beijing lawyers have demanded direct election of members to the Beijing Bar Association. Some of the lawyers have appealed to the bureau and the bar association, and have tried to negotiate with officials about the cancellation and suspension of lawyers' licenses.

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on June 26, 2009

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lawyerschile; Virtual Law Firms Going Viral

Virtual Law Firms Going Viral

Nearly a year ago, I posted here about the launch of Virtual Law Partners, an 18-member corporate and transactional virtual firm of "elite" lawyers. Though some observers expressed doubt about the viability of the VLP model, today the firm has nearly 40 lawyers.

But VLP isn't alone -- more and more virtual firms are cropping up. As the National Post blog describes, there's the Rimon Law Group and Atlanta-based FSB Group. Both of these are virtual firms comprised of lawyers with at least 10 years of large firm experience; like VLP, Rimon focuses largely on transactional and corporate work, while the 50 attorney FSB Group handles a wide range of practice areas.

In addition to these large virtual firm models that serve corporate clients, there are also smaller virtual practices geared toward individuals or small entrepreneurs. Larry Bodine has a post today about Natoli-Lapin, a two-man virtual shop founded in 2008 that is building a niche in low-cost legal services for entrepreneurs, artists and others launching new business ventures. And Stephanie Kimbro's Virtual Law Practice blog lists a dozen solo and small firms operating virtually, including Kimbro herself in North Carolina. The ABA's GP Solo magazine documents the solo/small firm trend to create virtual practices, with this article by Aviva Cuyler and Niki Black.

The experiences of these virtual firms, large or small, suggest that they provide... [MORE]

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on June 26, 2009

lawyerschile: Michael Jackson's Death and Malpractice Issues

Michael Jackson's Death and Malpractice Issues

Michael Jackson's death could potentially raise medical malpractice and criminal liability issues, writes Eric Turkewitz at the New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog. With speculation that prescription medications may have contributed to Jackson's death, Turkewitz explores some of the issues implicated.

First among the questions that will likely be explored is whether the medications were all provided by a single doctor. If so, Turkewitz predicts that the doctor could be exposed to criminal prosecution (though unlikely), revocation of his medical license or a civil suit. If more than one doctor was involved, a lawsuit would need to examine whether the doctors knew about each other and the medications they were prescribing. Other potential lawsuit targets include the pharmacists who prescribed the drugs, though they may have immunity for following doctors' orders.

On the damages end, there are also questions about... [MORE]

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on June 26, 2009

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

lawyerschile: Five Uses for a Kindle in a Law Practicers

Five Uses for a Kindle in a Law Practice

OK, so I realize that most of you are probably coveting a Kindle, Amazon.com's digital book device. But you haven't yet figured out how to justify its cost as a business expense when you're planning on using it to read novels on the beach, right?

Thankfully, Justin Rebello of the Wisconsin Law Journal gives you five ways that you can use the Kindle for your law office. First, the Kindle can be used to read deposition transcripts and make notes on the screen via an online content manager. Second, lawyers can load documents onto the Kindle using a digital text self-publishing tool and take them home for review. Third... [MORE]

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on June 22, 2009

lawyerschile: Supreme Court Upholds Voting Rights Act

Supreme Court Upholds Voting Rights Act

By an 8-1 ruling in Northwest Austin Munic. Util. Dist. v. Holder, the Supreme Court today declined to address the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, keeping the law alive for a future challenge, reports Tony Mauro at The National Law Journal. For those who haven't followed the case, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires a number of states and local governments, mostly in the South, to seek federal permission before changing their voting procedures, explains The New York Times. Although the majority decision, written by Chief Justice Roberts, identified the statute's many constitutional infirmities, the Court chose the path of "constitutional avoidance." The Court sidestepped the constitutional question because of the existence of an alternative resolution, in this case, the Texas utility district's ability to try and convince a three judge panel that it was exempt from Section 5.

The ruling came as a surprise to many Court watchers given Justice Roberts' hostility to the Voting Rights Act during questioning at oral argument. As Dahlia Lithwick commented at Slate... [MORE]

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on June 22, 2009

lawyerschile<: Contest Gives Law Students Shot at $10K

Contest Gives Law Students Shot at $10K

If you are in law school, you could probably use an extra $10,000 right about now. Well, if you have a video camera or know where to borrow one, here is your chance to win that much money or one of five $1,500 honorable mentions. All you have to do is make a brief video that describes your inspiration for going to law school.

The My Inspiration contest is a repeat of last year's One Less Worry Contest (which we wrote about here and here). Sponsored by Access Group, a nonprofit student loan company, the contest's rules are simple: Produce a video of no more than four minutes and upload it to YouTube by July 15, 2009.

From the submitted videos, Access Group will choose... [MORE]

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Amid Controversy, DePaul Names Interim Dean

The latest news to come out of DePaul University College of Law is that it has named a new dean, Illinois Appellate Court Judge Warren D. Wolfson. But that merely begs the question: What happened to the former dean, Glen Weissenberger?

It is a question many students, faculty, alumni and bloggers are asking in the wake of Weissenberger's hasty dismissal last week by University Provost Helmut Epp. Supporters have launched a petition drive for his reinstatement and started a Facebook group in his support. The Chicago Tribune reports that within three hours of the petition's posting, more than 200 faculty, students and and alumni had signed it.

The uproar is due not just to the former dean's popularity, but also to the circumstances of his dismissal. Law Librarian Blog summarizes what is believed to have happened... [MORE]

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Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on June 23, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009

Law Firms Need to Keep an Eye on Lawyers Performing Pro Bono Work

Where a law firm allows an associate to handle a matter pro bono through a legal aid organization, does the firm retain an obligation to supervise the associate? Yes, said Acting Supreme Court Justice Ellen Gesmer in a domestic relations dispute where advice provided to a pro bono client by a Skadden staff attorney was so rife with errors that it justified voiding the ensuing settlement stipulation. The New York Law Journal covers the story.

Lisa Poursine, a staff attorney for Skadden volunteered through the firm's pro bono program to handle a case for inMotion, a non-profit legal group that assists low-income women in matrimonial, family and immigration law cases. Poursine inaccurately advised the client that she her divorce would go smoothly if the client signed a settlement agreement which made it more difficult for the client to relocate to another state as she hoped. Even worse, the settlement agreement forced the client to waive her rights to future claims for equitable distribution. The Poursine explained to the client that without the settlement agreement, the case would be constested and that Poursine lacked the experience or resources to handle a contested matter.

The client sought to vacate the settlement agreement, testifying that Poursine never explained the equitable distribution waiver provisions or that the settlement would make it more difficult for the client to relocate. The Judge found that Poursine's advice was inaccurate and confusing, and resulted from lack of "appropriate training and supervision." Accordingly, she vacated the settlement.

Skadden says that it accords the same standard of care to pro bono clients as paying clients and now has an adequate system in place to assure that lawyers handling pro bono matters are properly supervised. Even so, this case is likely to make law firms with displaced associates think twice about dispatching them to legal aid organizations if the firm must retain a supervisory role.

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Posted by Carolyn Elefant on June 19, 2009

GAO: Coast Guard Judges Fair to Mariners

The U.S. General Accounting Office this week released the findings of its review of the U.S. Coast Guard's administrative law judge program. The GAO concludes that the ALJs are able to decide cases independently and free of undue influence from Coast Guard officials. It further finds that the ALJ program contains adequate protections to ensure the fairness of the process for mariners, such as the right to a hearing and to be represented.

The Coast Guard's ALJ program came under attack in 2007, when news reports and hearings before a U.S. House subcommittee raised concerns about whether the ALJs were able to decide cases independently. In response to those concerns, Congress asked the GAO to review the program. Two of the key issues Congress asked the GAO to look into were whether the ALJs have "decisional independence" and to what extent the ALJ program provides protections for mariners.

The mariners involved in these cases are merchant mariners working on commercial vessels at sea. To be employed as a merchant mariner, Coast Guard-issued credentials are required. If the Coast Guard believes that a mariner has failed to adhere to requirements for safety and security at sea, it initiates proceedings to suspect the mariner's credential. (Need an example? Think Exxon Valdez, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, where the skipper was found to have consumed alcohol and left the bridge.) If the mariner denies the charges, the matter goes to a hearing before an ALJ, where the Coast Guard has the burden of proving the charge.

The GAO found that the system "contains elements designed to foster the decisional independence of its judges." In particular, the GAO noted that all personnel actions involving ALJs must be conducted in accordance with independent Office of Personnel Management regulations and that personnel actions against an ALJ may be taken only through an independent agency, the Merit Systems Protection Board.

The GAO also concluded that the system contains adequate protections for mariners. In addition to providing mariners the right to a hearing and to be represented, the GAO found, the Coast Guard follows procedures designed to give mariners fair notice of the charges against them and the ALJs were following procedures regarding the elements to be addressed in their decisions.

Not surprisingly, few of these cases ever make it to a hearing before an ALJ. Of the 1,675 cases the GAO studied, only 3 percent resulted in an ALJ's issuance of a decision and order. The bulk of the cases, 62 percent, were resolved with settlement agreements.

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Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on June 19, 2009

Biglaw Continues Its Slow Creep Towards Blogs

The number of AmLaw 200 law firms with blogs more than doubled since 2007, but they still make up less than half of the nation's largest firms. This week, LexBlog released its periodic State of the AmLaw Blogosphere report. It found that 82 of these firms now have blogs. That is an increase of 110 percent over the first report in 2007, when 39 firms had blogs. In the last six months, the number of AmLaw 200 blogs has risen just 15 percent.

Interestingly, those 82 biglaw firms are responsible for 227 blogs, showing that at least some of them have multiple blogs. Of those 227, 186 are firm branded, meaning that the blog is somehow identified as a product of the firm. The "non-branded" blogs are written by individuals who work at these firms but write the blogs on their own.

Not all these biglaw blogs are active. LexBlog describes a blog from Morris Manning & Martin that deals with the law surrounding open source software as dormant. To me, it appears dead. The link for the blog leads to an Italian-language blog about online gambling. This might suggest that even as some large law firms take small steps towards blogging, others are stepping away.

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1.92 Million Reasons Not to Download Music

Stunned. That is my reaction to the news that a Minnesota jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay $1.92 million to the music industry for downloading music. That is $80,000 per song for each of the 24 songs she is said to have downloaded.

The woman's reaction: "Good luck trying to get it from me. ... It's like squeezing blood from a turnip."

This was the second trial for the woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, in the first downloading case to go to trial. Two years ago, a jury ordered Thomas-Rasset to pay $222,000 for downloading the songs -- $9,250 per song. The judge declared a mistrial and Thomas-Rasset opted for a second go-around.

The woman's lawyer, Kiwi Camara, told reporters that when he first heard the verdict, he was "angry about it." He had felt confident that any liability finding would be for the statutory minimum amount of $750 per song.

There remains the possibility that the parties will still reach a settlement. A spokesperson for the music industry said after the verdict, "Since day one we have been willing to settle this case ... and we remain willing to do so." The music industry has made its point with this verdict and has nothing further to gain by chasing after money it will never recover. As for Thomas-Rasset, she should be looking for a way to put this nightmare behind her. Let's hope both sides find a reasonable way to bring this case to an end.

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Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on June 19, 2009

The Right Kind of Health Care Reform

The Right Kind of Health Care Reform

We are facing some of the most sweeping changes health care has seen in decades. Reform is needed, but increasing government control over one-sixth of the economy and over important personal and private decisions would harm American taxpayers, health care providers and patients. Cato just launched a new Web site, Healthcare.Cato.org, which provides in-depth analyses of health care issues and reform initiatives that increase consumer choice and energize competition.

President Obama's proposals will inexorably lead to a government takeover of the system. According to health care expert Michael D. Tanner, this "reform" effort will give government greater control over more and more of our health care decisions. The plan will compel Americans to purchase health insurance, control its content and determine whether Americans receive certain medical services.

According to Tanner, the plan "would not initially create a government-run, single-payer system such as in Canada or Britain. Private insurance would still exist, at least for a time, but it would be reduced to little more than a public utility, operating much like, for example, the electric company, with the government regulating and controlling every aspect of its operation."

What will it cost taxpayers?

Tanner explains, "Obamacare will be expensive. The Congressional Budget Office's initial scoring of Ted Kennedy's health-care bill shows it would cost at least $1 trillion over the next ten years."

The CBO study also found that the plan would result in roughly 23 million people losing the insurance they currently have. The actuarial firm Lewin Associates estimates as many as 118.5 million would shift from private to public coverage, resulting in a nearly 60 percent reduction in the number of Americans with private insurance.

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Market Solutions

Market Solutions

There are market-based solutions to the problems besetting the current health care system. In a Policy Analysis, John H. Cochrane explains how "free markets can solve this problem, and provide life-long, portable health security, while enhancing consumer choice and competition."

The key, he says, is "Health-status insurance." He writes:

If you are diagnosed with a long-term, expensive condition, a health-status insurance policy will give you the resources to pay higher medical insurance premiums. Health-status insurance covers the risk of premium reclassification, just as medical insurance covers the risk of medical expenses.

With health-status insurance, you can always obtain medical insurance, no matter how sick you get, with no change in out-of-pocket costs. With health-status insurance, medical insurers would be allowed to charge sick people more than healthy people, and to compete intensely for all customers. People would have complete freedom to change jobs, move, or change medical insurers. Rigorous competition would allow us to obtain better medical care at lower cost.

Cato health policy analyst Michael F. Cannon says that one way to fix the health care system is to make consumers care about cost:

More than 200 million Americans have public or employer-controlled coverage, and all are essentially purchasing it with someone else's money. And that's the problem: Americans demand more coverage than they would if they were spending their own money. In fact, we demand as much coverage as Canadians, for whom health care is supposed to be free. Both American and Canadian patients pay only about 14 cents for every dollar of medical care they consume.

…If we want to increase access to health care, our first priority must be to contain costs. Nothing would help more than 200 million cost-conscious consumers.

Letting Americans own their health care dollars is the right thing to do. And as it happens, it would also cover a lot of the uninsured.

For an extensive analysis on the health care system, Tanner and Cannon explain more market-based solutions in their book, Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

Twitter Fuels Revolution in Iran

Twitter has officially moved way beyond what you ate for breakfast: The Anderson Cooper 360 blog reported yesterday that "the State Department is working with Twitter and other social networking sites to ensure Iranians are able to continue to communicate to each other and the outside world....For example, senior officials say the State Department asked Twitter to refrain for going down for periodic scheduled maintenance at this critical time to ensure the site continues to operate. Bureau's and offices across the State Department, they say, are paying very close attention to Twitter and other sites to get information on the situation in Iran." ReadWriteWeb calls the news from CNN "a great scoop, given that the network faced heavy criticism for being slow to prioritize news from Iran this weekend while Twitter was on fire with updates." You can follow the Iranian election Twitter stream here, though The Blog Herald reports that "unconfirmed reports are coming in (via Twitter of course) that Iran is filtering out said hashtag, so you might want to try some other ones as well." Mashable has a full guide to following the Iran election using Twitter and other social media.

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Sarah Palin vs. David Letterman

In case you didn't know, Sarah Palin and David Letterman are fighting. Conservative bloggers and personalities are in an uproar over David Letterman's jokes about Sarah Palin's daughter getting 'knocked up' at a Yankee ballgame and a reference to Sarah Palin's 'slutty flight attendant look' in his nightly Top 10 list. And they're especially mad that "the daughter who actually attended the Yankees game with Palin was 14-year-old Willow"--because, inappropriate! --even though "Letterman explained that he meant the joke to refer to 18-year-old Bristol," says The Plank. Still, "That's right," Hot Air says in outrage. "A state governor went to a baseball game with her underage daughter, and a national talk show host made a joke about the girl being sexually assaulted by one of the players." The Frisky has a breakdown of each joke in question.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Picture From New York

Picture From New York

The newest addition to the Central Park Zoo, that most improbable and magic spot just off Fifth Avenue at 64th Street, are two female and one male snow leopards (uncia uncia).

Snow leopards are naturally found in Central Asian mountain grasslands, scrub, and open forest, and have long body hair with an underlayer of dense fur up to five inches thick, adapting them well to their cold native climate. Gray and white coloring, with black spots, is designed to help them blend in naturally with their snowy and rocky surroundings.

As predatory cats go, they're small: Males weigh up to 120 pounds and females up to 90, standing about two feet tall (but with an impressive three foot long tale, helping them balance).

An endangered species, the total wild population is estimated at only 4,500 to 7,500. Unfortunately, they're hunted not only for their fur but for their bones, which are ground up and used in traditional Chinese medicine.

With a life span of 15-18 years, they prey primarily on blue sheep and ibex (wild goats), but can bring down animals as large as horses and, when hungry, can also pursue marmots, rabbits, and even birds.

Except when males and females pair up for mating season, or when mothers are caring for their young, snow leopards are solitary.

The Central Park Zoo invested $11-million in preparing their new habitat.

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lawyerschile: Special Newsletter Article: How Global Are We?

Special Newsletter Article: How Global Are We?

With all the talk of globalization and internationalisation, I decided to take a look at just how global our industry is. Data, in other words, not anecdote.

To do so, I started with The Lawyer's 2008 "Global 100," its report on the 100 largest global firms. Interestingly enough, all but two are based in the US or the UK, but that's a topic for another day.

Conveniently, they provide the percentage of lawyers who are outside the home country, which is what I was looking for. What, after all, could be a better proxy for how "international" a firm is than the percentage of its lawyers who are not in the original home nation?

I decided to break down the firms as follows:

More than 50% of lawyers outside the home country
From 25% to 50%
From 15% to 25%
And, as a special bonus item, to look at New York-based firms separately.

First, to the results, then, to the discussion.

Quote of the month

Even apart from the instability due to speculation, there is the instability due to the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as a result of animal spirits — of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities. Enterprise only pretends to itself to be mainly actuated by the statements in its own prospectus, however candid and sincere. Only a little more than an expedition to the South Pole, is it based on an exact calculation of benefits to come. Thus if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; — though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.

--The State of Long-Term Expectation, John Maynard Keynes,
"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)

So What Does This Mean?

Simply put, that we're a lot less international than we think we are.

But a note on methodology: The red bars are UK-based firms and the blue bars are US-based firms (The Lawyer defined DLA as US-based, so I simply followed suit.)

Firms with more than half their lawyers overseas are international by any measure. Interesting is that 7 of the 10 firms filling this category are UK-based, including all of the Magic Circle. Indeed, if your coin-flip on DLA came up the other way--and if Baker & McKenzie is tagged as a sort of one-off representative of very little--then you could argue that 8 of 9 are UK-based, with White & Case the only clearly US-origin, powerfully international firm.

Turning to the 25%--50% cohort, 5 of the 13 are still UK-based; but this is the last we'll see of UK firms. In other words, all UK firms in the Global 100 have at least 25% (it's actually more than 33%) of their lawyers outside the UK.

In the 15%--25% tier, all 14 of the firms are now US-based.

You will note that on that chart I also drew a red line across at the 20% level. Why?

My seat of the pants instinct is that firms with fewer than 1 in 5 of their lawyers abroad cannot lay serious claim to being "international." Yes, we could certainly debate whether the line should be drawn at 10%, 20%, or 25%, but I think we can all agree that line belongs on the chart somewhere.

And, if you agree with me that 20% is a sound cutoff, then only five of the 14 firms shown there remain "international"--the rest are below the 20% mark.

Finally, I couldn't resist taking a look at New York-based firms.

Only five of the 13 New York-based firms lie above the 20% cutoff, and two of them don't even clear 5% (Paul Weiss and Proskauer).

I stand second to none in my loyalty to New York, but this compels a troubling question: If the world is going more global (it is), then what plans do these firms have to adapt to that reality?

To be sure, heretofore (at least until, say, the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley), being focused on New York provided a powerful strategic base. In a way, what these firms have done is entirely understandable, if it might strike those with a more international orientation as suboptimal.

But, as they say, that was then and this is now.

Just this week, I was discussing what the contours of the post-Great Reset financial world order might look like with a UK-trained lawyer (Cambridge) who has spent a fair amount of his career in New York, and I found that I could not take issue with his belief that "on the other side" of this financial crisis the City of London would emerge stronger than ever. Consider:

Not only could the Legal Services Act permit and compel all sorts of fascinating innovation, but the Financial Services Act is a more consistent, comprehensive, and simply "lighter" regulatory framework than the US's current alphabet soup of turf-war battling state and federal regulators. (Sadly, so it appears as of just this morning's headlines, the Obama Administration has run up the white flag in the fight to change that before battle was even joined.)
If you want to do business in the span of one day with North America, Europe, and Asia, London occupies just about the perfect time-zone.
The infrastructure is already there. Do not underestimate this. Remember when Frankfurt was destined to be the next London, or at least the London of the EU? I believe one substantial reason that never happened is Frankfurt's relative lack of financial, legal, and "support" infrastructure--"support" including everything from black cars to IT specialists, caterers, and graphic designers.

Oh, and another thing about New York firms' relative lack of overseas presence: What might that do to their law student recruiting efforts in the long run? Not just foreign-born, but US-native law students are increasingly interested in a stint abroad. Judging by the chart above, that could be a challenge for some of these firms.

But one can always hope. Hope that Sarbanes-Oxley will be repealed, hope that the Members of Parliament will find a way to screw things up, hope that US financial market regulation might finally be rationalized and not just BandAid'ed over.

Or one could start laying plans to move to London.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Little Black Book: Creating a Marketing Habit in 21 Days

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Posted on June 15, 2009 by Larry Bodine

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