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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines April 17, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, April 17, 2009.

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FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE  |  3Ls do the grim math on job market
"The nation's 200 accredited law schools will spit out about 43,000 graduates next month, with roughly half of those lawyer-hopefuls expecting to take jobs in private practice. They will be entering an employment market that already is swarming with thousands of laid-off associates who are in about as much demand as a five-year lease on a full-size Hummer. The upshot is a massive pile-up of attorneys looking for work in an environment that is pitting would-be attorneys against more experienced competitors. "

WEB-ONLY  |  UCLA Law offers a new option for deferred associates
"As hundreds of graduating law school students facing delayed start dates as law firm associates scramble to find find work, the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law offers a different option. Its new LL.M program ? dubbed the "transition to practice" program ? is designed specifically to give deferred associates the skills they would develop as first year law firm associates, said law school Dean Michael Schill."

WEB-ONLY  |  GFI Group GC must pay $375,000 to cover his former company's attorney fees
"A New York State trial court judge recently confirmed an arbitration order requiring former GFI Group Inc. general counsel Chaim A. Levin to pay nearly $375,000 to cover his former company's attorney fees because he violated his employment agreement by refusing to cooperate with a company investigation. "

WEB-ONLY  |  Court shoots down Webcasting of hearing in music downloading case
"The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Massachusetts federal judge's order allowing webcasting of a hearing in a case against college students for illegally downloading music from the Internet".

WEB-ONLY  |  Magistrate sanctions plaintiffs in long-running bias case against Library of Congress
"A federal magistrate imposed sanctions on plaintiffs in the long-running race and national origin discrimination suit against the Library of Congress for failure to respond fully to defense interrogatories as required by the court".

WEB-ONLY  |  Online plagiarism detection service does not infringe on students when it archives their work
"An online plagiarism detection service used by high schools does not infringe the copyright interests of students who must use it when the service archives their essays in its database, an appellate court ruled recently. "

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).