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July 10, 2013 |

Roanoke College Insider Steps Into In-House Role

Virginia liberal arts school Roanoke College welcomes its first general counsel, G. Michael Pace Jr., only a month before his daughter comes to campus as an incoming freshman.
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August 23, 2007 |

The Controversy Over Relocating a Michigan Law School Escalates

Seeing the potential for billion-dollar damages, lawyers who sue over government contracts are watching a false claims suit against the University of Phoenix. On Friday, a federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., cleared the case for trial.
4 minute read
August 24, 2007 |

Controversy rises over Catholic law school's move

A DECISION TO MOVE Michigan's Ave Maria School of Law to Florida has touched off a firestorm of controversy at the seven-year-old Catholic law school. A disagreement over the relocation has escalated in the past few months into a feud between the dean and several faculty members who allege they are being mistreated and ignored.
3 minute read
August 06, 2007 |

Retirement a key ABA issue

By some estimates, a full quarter of the country's 1 million attorneys will be at least 65 by 2011. The aging attorney population is the focus of a proposed resolution before the ABA's House of Delegates which calls for law firms to discontinue their mandatory-retirement policies. The issue of mandatory retirement has received particular attention because of a lawsuit pending against Sidley Austin.
6 minute read
August 07, 2007 |

ABA targets mandatory retirement

FORTY YEARS AGO, it was San Francisco's Summer of Love. This year, it's the Summer of Lawyers. More than 9,000 attorneys, judges and other legal types will come together in the City by the Bay for the American Bar Association's 130th annual meeting from Aug. 9 to 14. Besides hosting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G.
5 minute read
February 25, 2013 |

MOVERS

David Kappos joins Cravath, Swaine & Moore as partner in the New York office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
3 minute read
August 22, 2007 |

Controversy Escalates Over Mich. Law School's Move

A disagreement over the relocation of Michigan's Ave Maria School of Law to Florida has escalated in the past few months into a feud between Dean Bernard Dobranski and faculty members who say they're mistreated and ignored. Many students and faculty are leaving the seven-year-old Catholic law school, and there are concerns about accreditation. But Dobranski says: "We received accreditation in the fastest amount of time possible. Why would we, less than two years later, somehow be at risk of losing that?"
3 minute read
August 07, 2007 |

Law Firm Retirement Policies Expected to Be Hot Issue at Annual ABA Meeting

More than 9,000 attorneys, judges and other legal types will meet in San Francisco for the ABA's 130th annual meeting this week. Besides hosting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer as the keynote speaker, the organization will take up issues ranging from state secrets privileges to law firms' mandatory retirement policies. The latter issue has received particular attention because of an EEOC action filed against Sidley Austin on behalf of about 30 former partners.
5 minute read
September 01, 2013 |

The Art of Lawyering

An art history major with a practical bent finds her niche; and other Moves.
9 minute read

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