Robert Ambrogi

I have enormous respect for the opinions of Carolyn Elefant, but I am at a loss to understand her taking aim at the American Bar Association (Can We Lawyers Please Stop Patting Ourselves on The Back?) for its first-ever national survey of lawyers’ pro bono activity. (See my earlier post about the survey.)…

From the Aug. 5 Boston Business Journal article, The lawyer hunt: In the legal industry, competition heats up for lateral hires:

“The lateral hiring sprees at national firms that have colonized Boston in recent years and the growing embrace of businesslike practices and cultures have spurred a bare-knuckled fight for talent. The competition

From the Boston Business Journal:

“Ilene Robinson Sunshine is a top-notch attorney. But she’s the first to admit that for some time, drumming up legal business didn’t come naturally to her. …

“Sunshine, currently the co-chairwoman of Sullivan & Worcester LLP’s labor and employment law group, found selling her services distasteful — that is,

Law.com blog network compatriot J. Craig Williams today unveiled a major redesign of his blog, May it Please the Court. Turn your sound on and run your cursor over the old English judge for a surprise.

While you’re there, visit the rest of Craig’s law firm site. He’s done an…

Get fired from your job, and your first instinct may be to call a lawyer. But wait, there could be a Caribbean cruise in it for you. Mark Jen, who made headlines earlier this year after Google fired him for blogging, has teamed up with the job site SimplyHired to launch SimplyFired. Visitors…

If his investment portfolio is any indication, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts may turn out to be the most media savvy justice on the Supreme Court, according to Broadcasting & Cable, which reports that media companies make up 15 to 40 percent of his $3 million in stock investments.

“A review of Roberts’

Why turn a dynamic RSS feed into a static PDF file? Not sure the answer, but if you ever feel the need, here’s the tool to use: RSS 2 PDF .

[Via ResearchBuzz]…

It’s the blawgers’ version of inside baseball. Monica Bay wraps up the week’s runs, hits and errors in Blawg Review #18.…

One in six people in the United States visited blogs in the first quarter of 2005, MarketWatch reports. Blogspot.com had 19 million unique visitors, more than NYTimes.com, USAToday.com and WashingtonPost.com.…

In An ‘unprecedented’ push for diversity, Boston Globe reporter Diane E. Lewis reports on Mintz Levin:

“A prominent Boston law firm has hired 11 minority attorneys to staff an employment law practice in Washington, D.C., and it is planning to add more to work in Boston, New York, and Washington in a

Some call lawyers sharks, but they seem harmless compared to the sharks tracked at the International Shark Attack File, a site that compiles all known shark attacks. Then again, the site does say, “The shark’s reputation is far worse than his bite.”…

ResearchBuzz reports that LexisNexis now offers RSS feeds for its news releases. There are four feeds: All News, Business News, Legal News and Risk Management News.…