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Torsten Blackwood/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A man claiming to have a bomb gestures at police after breaking a window at the Sydney law-firm office where he's holding his young daughter hostage.
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"It's something no lawyer or law-firm chairman ever wants to deal with, especially when it is so public and high profile," said Peter Zeughauser , a law-firm consultant based in Newport Beach, Calif.
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But many corporate legal departments are either farming them to their own employees or giving them to so-called contract attorneys, lower-cost outside lawyers who work independently from the large law-firm ecosystem.
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Depressing All the news about law-firm lay-offs and such, all in a convenient, easy-to-read chart.
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Many general counsels staff their in-house legal departments with law-firm attorneys with five or six years of experience.
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He said that on several large litigation matters in recent years, the company had used contract lawyers instead of young law-firm associates to handle the paper-intensive and costly "discovery" phase of the cases.
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Depressing All the news about law-firm lay-offs and such, all in a convenient, easy-to-read chart.
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In his law-firm biography, Mr. Weingarten is described as having a practice that includes "complex criminal matters in both state and federal courts," including cases involving public corruption, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, bank fraud, bribery, government procurement fraud, antitrust, health-care fraud, and tax and securities fraud.
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These companies are growing weary of paying high hourly rates for inexperienced law-firm associates.
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Bleak as these depictions may be, they are still improvements over Herman Melville's 1853 short story, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," with its dreary portrayal of law-firm life.
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