This week on the legal news podcast Coast to Coast, we discuss soaring associate salaries. After a few years of relative stagnation, salaries for first year law associates suddenly are exploding. Starting pay is an incredible $145,000 at some large firms and I heard today of one that hit $150,000. What is going on…

Following up on my earlier post about Microsoft’s acquisition of Onfolio, this comment from Dave Rakowski led me to read the acquisition FAQ, which is full of bad news. To wit:…

In the news: Microsoft acquires Onfolio. And here is Microsoft’s announcement.

I have mixed feelings about this. I have used Onfolio for close to a year as my RSS aggregator and Web file cabinent. It integrates nicely as a plug-in for Firefox and lets me easily browse news feeds and capture…

Thefts by three lawyers accounted for nearly three-quarters of the $2.2 million paid to client in 2005 by the Massachusetts Clients’ Security Board. More details via the Boston Globe: “Three lawyers tied to bulk of fraud restitution.”…

This could give lawyers a bad name:

“Email Worm Threatens Lawsuit Against Victims

“The latest version of the Bagle mass mailer worm attempts to threaten potential victims by posing as a lawsuit against the recipient.

“Bagle-DO worm spreads in emails featuring subject lines such as ‘Pay your debts before we come to you,’

The Alexandria, Va., IP firm Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt this week launched TTAB-Rules, a blog designed to track the rules package proposed in January by the USPTO’s Trademark Trial & Appeal Board. The blog will include commentary and updates from lawyers at Oblon and from others outside the firm. The welcome…

From yesterday’s Boston Globe:

“Boston’s lawyers pride themselves on the work they do for free. It’s a way for them to give back, and it’s a major recruiting tool. But as top firms cast an increasingly critical eye on the line between public service and profit, some fear good will could end up

Seventy percent of large companies are so dissatisfied with their primary law firm that they would not recommend it to others, according to a survey of large and Fortune 1,000 companies released this week by The BTI Consulting Group. This deep dip in client satisfaction, reports BTI, promises to drive dollars into the hands…

Tom Goldstein, a lawyer who methodically established himself over less than a decade as a leading Supreme Court advocate, is leaving the firm he founded, Goldstein & Howe, to join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Law Blog reports. With him will go the popular Supreme Court blog, SCOTUSblog.…

Claiming deceptive Web advertising by LegalMatch, Maine’s Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a nonprofit agency that provides legal services to the poor, has sued the San Francisco business in federal court in Portland.

The suit alleges that when users type “Pine Tree Legal Assistance” in Web search engines, LegalMatch’s advertisements appear in the…

The Boston Globe’s Sacha Pfeiffer tells the story of how Peter D. Enrich, “a mild-mannered, 55-year-old philosophy teacher-turned-law professor,” found himself in the Supreme Court yesterday taking on DaimlerChrysler, the state of Ohio and others: “Professor leads small group in battle with legal giants.”…

Following up on my posts (here and here) yesterday about Fast Mediator using content from other mediation blogs without attribution, the owner of the blog has now removed all unauthorized posts and issued an apology. Golden Media Managing Director Andrew Golden writes, in part:

“I want to be certain that