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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

Attorney at Work

Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. The PMI reached 69 — its highest mark since 2006 and second-highest mark ever. Corporate law departments made structural shifts as well. Corporate law departments made structural shifts as well. Profits per equity partner rose 11.5%

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You Subpoenaed My Documents, Shouldn’t You Pay for Them?

Percipient

If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. The law firm produced the documents but sought reimbursement for over $44,000 spent complying with the subpoena. Who covers the expense in responding to it?

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TIL: “Texas Tamale” Is an Enforceable Trademark–Texas Tamale v. CPUSA2

Eric Goldman

The court said that the trademark owner had been using the trademark since 1985 and registered the trademark in 2006. ” That prompted this litigation. Brown Engstrand * More on Law Firms and Competitive Keyword Ads–Nicolet Law v. ” Say what? ” The right answer should be “no one.”

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The Lawyers of Substack

LawSites

This week, David Lat, who founded the blog Above the Law in 2006, and who earlier, in 2004, started the anonymous blog Underneath Their Robes , and who left blogging two years ago to take a job as a legal recruiter, is returning to writing as a full-time livelihood. But this time, Lat will not be publishing his writing on a blog.

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Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. LinkedIn and Facebook, most notably, have done as much as anyone to shape the law of web scraping. But the content that they’re trying to protect isn’t theirs—it belongs to their users. It’s user-generated content.

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Illinois Supreme Court Names Lea Gutierrez as New ARDC Administrator

Legal Tech Monitor

Dedicated public servant Gutierrez worked as the ARDC’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Litigation Group Manager, and Senior Litigation Counsel from 2006 until 2021. Beasley School of Law. She is a graduate of Temple University’s James E.

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Illinois Supreme Court Increases Compensation for Attorneys Representing Indigent Parties

Legal Tech Monitor

Rule 299 was last updated in 2006. This commitment to “ensuring accessible justice and equal protection under the law through programs and services that meet current and changing needs,” is outlined as Strategic Goal 1 in its 2022-2025 Strategic Agenda. Subscribe here to get the Commission’s weekly news delivered to your inbox.

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