Filter This View

  • July 15, 2003 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyer-Tax Case Erupts in Fee Fight

    Georgia's Supreme Court declared the City of Atlanta's $400 per lawyer annual occupation tax unconstitutional in March, but lawyers now are fighting over fees, tax refunds and interest potenti

    1 minute read

  • March 29, 2004 | Legal Times

    Courtside: When Planets Collide

    For two days earlier this month, it appeared that several Supreme Court justices were at war with the world outside their marble palace — or at least with the news media and Congr

    1 minute read

  • April 12, 2007 | National Law Journal

    On-Site Day Care Starting to Catch On at Law Firms

    If work gets a bit too intense for Carole Gailor, she takes a "baby break" and walks up to the second-floor loft of her seven-attorney offices. There, in a nursery that Raleigh, N.C.-based G

    1 minute read

  • September 17, 2007 | Legal Times

    Management Matters: Game Plan for Controlling Costs

    Cost control efforts, like diets, are only effective if you stick to them. Ay, there's the rub: How does a general counsel get individual lawyers to care about how much is spent on outsi

    1 minute read

  • April 29, 2013 | Legaltech News

    10 Mistakes to Avoid When Buying and Using Smartphones

    They couldn't run Angry Birds, but traditional telephones had one thing today's smartphones lack: utter simplicity. Buying one was easy: Red or white?

    1 minute read

  • April 9, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Peter J. Kalis, K&L Gates

    In 1980, when I started law practice, the Pittsburgh Pirates were the reigning World Series champions; apple was my choice of fruit, not the world's largest corporation by market capitalizati

    1 minute read

  • May 15, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Law Firms in Hurricane Zone Draw on Hard-Won Lessons

    When Hurricane Andrew blew away Robert Zinn's car dealership in 1992, he decided it was time to put his degree from Cornell Law School to full-time use. Fourteen years later, as the chief oper

    1 minute read

  • October 8, 2007 | Legal Times

    More Questions Loom for Mukasey

    Add one more subject for attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey to bone up on ahead of a crucial meeting with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and his confirmation hearing, expected to start later this

    1 minute read

  • December 1, 2003 | Legal Times

    A Good Bet?

    Betting and sports go together so well that they should be legally joined. Professional athletes should be allowed — read: strongly encouraged — to bet on their games

    1 minute read

  • January 9, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    eVidence on eBay

    Houston plaintiffs' lawyer W. Mark Lanier has been on an eBay binge lately, buying industrial manuals, magazine advertisements, ashtrays, floor tiles, roof shingles, a sealed pack of Kent ciga

    1 minute read