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In-House Salaries Growing at Measured Pace
November 29, 2013
The latest annual report on legal industry salaries by Robert Half Legal, a division of staffing company Robert Half, indicates that pay for in-house attorneys continues to grow at a modest rate. The data also shows that law departments are looking to maximize value as their workloads increase by hiring attorneys with high experience levels and specialized knowledge in hotter legal areas like compliance and health care, sometimes on a project-by-project basis. Robert Half Legal’s 2014 Salary...
November 29, 2013
The latest annual report on legal industry salaries by Robert Half Legal, a division of staffing company Robert Half, indicates that pay for in-house attorneys continues to grow at a modest rate. The data also shows that law departments are looking to maximize value as their workloads increase by hiring attorneys with high experience levels and specialized knowledge in hotter legal areas like compliance and health care, sometimes on a project-by-project basis. Robert Half Legal’s 2014 Salary...
Complex Civil Appeals: Making the Case for Settlement
November 29, 2013
More than 90 percent of civil cases are settled without trial. By contrast, most civil appeals are briefed, argued and decided by the court. In complex cases when large amounts of money are at stake, settlements pending an appeal seem to be the exception: such appeals frequently go forward to decision without a serious attempt to settle. There are reasons to consider a settlement discussion before putting the parties’ fate in the hands of an appellate panel. To begin with, the popular Court...
November 29, 2013
More than 90 percent of civil cases are settled without trial. By contrast, most civil appeals are briefed, argued and decided by the court. In complex cases when large amounts of money are at stake, settlements pending an appeal seem to be the exception: such appeals frequently go forward to decision without a serious attempt to settle. There are reasons to consider a settlement discussion before putting the parties’ fate in the hands of an appellate panel. To begin with, the popular Court...
Unsurprising Sixth Circuit Decision that Propriety of Class Arbitration is a Gateway Question and that Silent Clause Doesn’t Permit Class Arbitration
November 29, 2013
From the Employer Law Report (Caroline Gentry): The Sixth Circuit held that courts, not arbitrators, must decide the “gateway”...
November 29, 2013
From the Employer Law Report (Caroline Gentry): The Sixth Circuit held that courts, not arbitrators, must decide the “gateway”...
A Pyramid Collapse for Law Schools? Most are Losing Money This Year, Law Prof Says
November 28, 2013
Most law schools are operating at a deficit this year as they grapple with lower enrollment and try to lure more students with tuition discounts, concludes a law professor who studied the numbers. Just how many law schools are losing money? Eighty percent to eighty-five percent, according to the estimate by University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, writing at the blog Lawyers, Guns & Money.Above the Law notes the article. Campos drew his conclusion after studying the budgets of 31 ABA-approved...
November 28, 2013
Most law schools are operating at a deficit this year as they grapple with lower enrollment and try to lure more students with tuition discounts, concludes a law professor who studied the numbers. Just how many law schools are losing money? Eighty percent to eighty-five percent, according to the estimate by University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, writing at the blog Lawyers, Guns & Money.Above the Law notes the article. Campos drew his conclusion after studying the budgets of 31 ABA-approved...
Retired S.C. Lawyer Disciplined for No Active Email
November 28, 2013
Should lawyers be disciplined for not having active e-mail accounts? The South Carolina Disciplinary Board thinks so. Aaron Weems, associate at Fox Rothschild, reports on the Pennsylvania Family Law blog that the S.C. board recently ruled a retired lawyer "poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and to the administration of justice" for not having an active e-mail address. Weems recites anecdotes from his own practice, when opposing counsel's lack of technological tools caused...
November 28, 2013
Should lawyers be disciplined for not having active e-mail accounts? The South Carolina Disciplinary Board thinks so. Aaron Weems, associate at Fox Rothschild, reports on the Pennsylvania Family Law blog that the S.C. board recently ruled a retired lawyer "poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and to the administration of justice" for not having an active e-mail address. Weems recites anecdotes from his own practice, when opposing counsel's lack of technological tools caused...
EDGE: Imagining Conflict Resolution
November 28, 2013
"The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That's the question that I'm asking myself right now, can science in general, or neuroscience in particular, be used to understand what drives conflict, what prevents reconciliation, why some interventions work for some people some of the time, and how to make and evaluate better ones."
November 28, 2013
"The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That's the question that I'm asking myself right now, can science in general, or neuroscience in particular, be used to understand what drives conflict, what prevents reconciliation, why some interventions work for some people some of the time, and how to make and evaluate better ones."
Books I’ve Loved (Which Can Be Applied to Your Practice)
November 28, 2013
With daylight savings upon us, we’re now back in the dark season, or as I prefer to think of it, the season of reading. Those of you who have read my book reviews and followed my work know that I am a big fan of psychology and neuroscience. After all, if you want to know how to negotiate better, you need to understand how to make better decisions and what’s going on for the decision-makers across the table. Against the Gods In that vein, I highly recommend Peter L. Bernstein’s Against...
November 28, 2013
With daylight savings upon us, we’re now back in the dark season, or as I prefer to think of it, the season of reading. Those of you who have read my book reviews and followed my work know that I am a big fan of psychology and neuroscience. After all, if you want to know how to negotiate better, you need to understand how to make better decisions and what’s going on for the decision-makers across the table. Against the Gods In that vein, I highly recommend Peter L. Bernstein’s Against...
The Scientific Study of Positive Emotion
November 28, 2013
What I'm really interested in is the science of human emotion. In particular, what's captivated my field and my interest the most is trying to understand positive emotions. Not only the ways in which perhaps we think they're beneficial for us or confer some sort of adaptive value, but actually the ways in which they may signal dysfunction and may not actually, in all circumstances and in all intensities, be good for us. I thought I'd first start briefly with a tale of positive emotion. It's a really...
November 28, 2013
What I'm really interested in is the science of human emotion. In particular, what's captivated my field and my interest the most is trying to understand positive emotions. Not only the ways in which perhaps we think they're beneficial for us or confer some sort of adaptive value, but actually the ways in which they may signal dysfunction and may not actually, in all circumstances and in all intensities, be good for us. I thought I'd first start briefly with a tale of positive emotion. It's a really...
JAMS Supports the ABA’s Planned Early Dispute Resolution Project
November 27, 2013
In the interest of saving time and money, the ABA Dispute Resolution has launched a user guide to help parties and lawyers...
November 27, 2013
In the interest of saving time and money, the ABA Dispute Resolution has launched a user guide to help parties and lawyers...
Nevada Supreme Court Protects Confidentiality of Foreclosure Mediation Program Records
November 27, 2013
Last week, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected a non-profit organization’s request to examine records created as part of the state’s...
November 27, 2013
Last week, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected a non-profit organization’s request to examine records created as part of the state’s...
