LJN Newsletters

  • Treat Your Partners Well

    Managing an organization composed of successful lawyers is famously difficult. The very traits that make lawyers successful are found in abundance in law firm partners ' a healthy skepticism, a penchant for debate, and a high degree of self-confidence ' coupled with a sense of ownership in the enterprise and a desire to be informed and consulted about decisions large and small. Firm management's job got even harder in April, with a Supreme Court ruling affirming that partners may have equal employment opportunity rights.

    January 01, 2004Paul F. Mickey Jr.

  • Executive Committees' New Role: Focus on Integration

    Information Resources (formerly called the Library in most firms) and Marketing/Business Development now must form a union to help the firm's senior management with strategic positioning, competitive analysis and revenue generation through firm strategic intelligence. The time for dotting the "I" in Information and crossing the "t" in Marketing has come. It is no longer enough to obtain information about a client.

    January 01, 2004Linda Will

  • Road to Large Law Firm Partnerships Getting Longer

    The fast track at top law firms is slowing down. Facing increasingly complex matters, an active market for lateral partners and greater pressure to improve profitability, major New York law firms are prolonging the period leading up to partnership. At firms where an associate's first shot at partnership once came 7 years after law school graduation, tracks of 8 years or longer are now far more common.

    January 01, 2004Anthony Lin

  • Around the Firms

    Movement among major law firms and corporations.

    January 01, 2004Teri Zucker

  • Optimizing Retirement Plans for Law Firms

    Part One of this article compared some hybrid retirement plans (combinations of defined contribution and defined benefit plans) that are potentially desirable for law firms. In Part Two, we provide spreadsheet analyses to illustrate the benefits of these plans and to reconcile them with nondiscrimination criteria of the Internal Revenue Code and of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

    January 01, 2004Kenneth D. Klingler and David N. Heap

  • Verdicts

    Recent rulings of importance to your practice.

    January 01, 2004ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Med Bytes

    All about Daubert's Ghost...complete with Web sites. Also, a look at ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is a nonprofit health services research agency. Its mission is to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of health care. It is widely recognized as one of the world's leading independent organizations committed to advancing the quality of healthcare. ECRI's focus is health care technology, health care risk and quality management, and health care environmental management. It provides information services and technical assistance to more than 5000 hospitals and more.

    January 01, 2004Elliott B. Oppenheim

  • Med Mal News

    Important news of interest to you and your practice.

    January 01, 2004ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Understanding EMTALA and the Courts

    Because many attorneys who handle professional liability cases are not also involved in cases challenging government regulations, they may not be familiar with the weight that the courts often give to regulations and regulatory preambles such as those discussed in last month's article on the new Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) regulations. This article should aid in filling any such gaps in the attorney's experience.

    January 01, 2004Jennifer A. Stiller