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Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass
Special to Law.com
In this economy, prospective employers are looking to save money wherever possible, and telephone interviews can be cost-effective. Phone interviews usually are used by prospective employers for screening candidates to determine whether to spend the time and money for a face-to-face interview. Telephone interviews can be especially useful in [...]

Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass
Special to Law.com
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a 12-part series providing interview tips and techniques for lawyers.
In this slow time in the legal job market, interviews are few and far between. Therefore, candidates must make the most of each nice opportunity. This series will cover strategies for acing [...]

January 29, 2010
BOWLING GREEN, KY, JANUARY 29 – Carmen Fowler took major honors among GLI’s legal recruiters for 2009. The fact that this honor comes closely on the heels of Carmen’s one-year anniversary as a recruiter only makes the accomplishment that much sweeter. Carmen began her career in legal recruiting in November 2008, bringing with [...]

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet.
Whole body image scanning machines are designed to peer through clothing and enslave three-dimensional images of individuals as if they’re totally undressed. This raises a lot of queries about the impact of a citizen’s civil liberty rights and [...]

On October 21, 2009, several U.S. Senators introduced a proposed federal “Elder Humiliate Victims Behave (S. 1821)” as a “companion” Senate bill to one adopted earlier this year by a vote of 397 to 20 five in the House, known as the Elder Humiliate Victims Act (H.R. 448), introduced by Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA). It appears [...]

FindLaw
By Eric Sinrod
Whether a particular patent is valid has potentially far-reaching implications. Novelty or newness is the basic underpinning of every invention that leads to a patent.
After a patent has been granted, parties may seek to defeat its validity in litigation by arguing that the patented subject matter was not novel at the time of [...]

By Paul Cherner
                 The Centers for Disease Control and prevention (”CDC”) has just issued a report indicating that in the past six months 22 million Americans have become sick with the H1N1 influenza virus (a/k/a the “swine flu”), of which 4,000 have died.  As this pandemic shows no signs of abating, employers are faced with [...]

KEYS TO SUCCESS
 
Please note that the following steps are not listed by order of importance.  They’re all equally vital to the success of lateral hiring.  Therefore, these are not “a la carte” suggestions from which you can pick and choose, but prototype of which all must be implemented to achieve success without unnecessary risk [...]

April 2008
By Bruce Jackson Part One of a Two-Part Article The lateral movement of attorneys between firms requires a well-defined and well-executed management program in order to maximize the benefits of the move to both sides. This article sets forth the key elements, all of which must be addressed in order to maximize the investment a law [...]

By Paul Cherner
The EEOC has just published for public comment proposed new regulations interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Behave of 2008 (”ADAA“). The ADAA, which became effective January 1, 2009, required the EEOC to revise its ADA regulations and to redefine the term “substantially limits” in accord with the Congressional goal of defining the [...]