Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Job #5055-MH1054
Job Title: Junior- to Mid-Level Business and Finance Associate
Location: Houston, TX
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Business and Finance Associate
Top tier international law firm seeks to hire a junior- to mid-level business and finance/transactional associate to join dynamic, growing practice.   
Interested candidates should have strong academic credentials and outstanding writing skills.
 

  The latest litigation trends report is based on responses from 358 participating companies — including company officials who serve as general or deputy-general counsels for their firms. Of that pool, 251 respondents were U.S.-based firms.
The big ten areas most rip for lawsuits were labor and employment matters, contract disputes and personal injury cases, product liability, [...]

Job #5057-MH1054
Job Title: Appellate Litigation Associates
Location: Washington, DC
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Appellate Litigation Associate Stellar firm is looking to hire a mid-level to senior appellate litigation associate to join its busy Litigation Practice.
Interested candidates should have fantastic academic credentials and writing skills. Candidates with judicial clerkships and prior appellate litigation experience are strongly preferred. This career opportunity presents [...]

  The National Law Journal’s “unscientific survey” of firms that devote at least half of their resources to plaintiffs’ work, and which have achieved at least one significant win during the year is out.
This year’s winners are Baron & Budd; Beasley Allen; Berger & Montague; Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz; Bernstein Litowitz; The Cochran Firm; Cotchett, Pitre [...]

  Jones Day announced yesterday that 15 Heller Ehrman partners would be joining its offices in San Francisco, New York and Washington.  The firm has also hired some Heller associates, but did not disclose the number other than to say that the firm would likely end up with the same number of associates as partners. Firms have [...]

 
Job #5032-MH1054
Job Title: Lateral Associates
Location: Washington, DC
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Lateral Associates
DC-based law firm with well-established practice in a broad range of areas seeks experienced attorneys with excellent academic credentials and strong writing skills.

Job #5029-MH1054
Job Title: IP Prosecution
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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IP Prosecution - Electrical and Electronic Arts
National law firm seeks mid-level associate with experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the electrical and electronic arts; familiarity with ALL aspects of PTO practice; prior experience in engineering a plus (prior to or parallel with law school).  Ideal [...]

  Humor columnist The Snark lists the big five ways to know your Major Firm is feeling the effects of the economic crisis:
1. People start doing strange things—such as taking vacations or long weekends TWO. The holiday party gets downsized 3. Basic services and perks start to evaporate 4. Billable hours dry up 5. Senior partners start [...]

  It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that law firms plan on hiring fewer associates next year.
In Washington D.C., 20 two of the thirty largest law firms plan on bringing on fewer associates in 2008 than they did in 2007.  Some will decrease hiring by only 2 or 3 attorneys, while others will cut hiring [...]

 
Job #5031-MH1054
Job Title: Health Care Litigation
Location: Voorhees, NJ
Click here to applyJunior to Mid Level Health Care Litigation  Associate Health Care Group provides hospitals, nursing homes, retirement communities, health systems, surgical centers, physician practice groups, medical schools, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with well-rounded representation in both traditional and innovative business transactions, litigation, and health care [...]