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When it comes to doing something good about global warming, London-based oil company BP is the industry pioneer. True, that doesn’t say much. “I don’t think you can call any oil company a green company,” says Andrew Logan of Ceres, ...

When it comes to financial aid, colleges such as Harvard and Yale can afford to be generous. Yet what if your child doesn’t get accepted to a university with an abundant endowment? Can they still obtain an aid package that ...

The negative employment report on Feb. 1 was another sign the U.S. economy is on the ropes. Increasingly, this downswing is being portrayed as more than just a cyclical phenomenon. The U.S. used to be the envy of the world, ...

Many long-term incentive plans for executives have undergone extreme makeovers, often by eliminating stock options and the use of free shares as a substitute. Some companies have made a stab at basing compensation on how well total return stacks up ...

Federal Reserve officials, focused on heading off a recession, once again did what financial markets demanded by cutting their target for the overnight lending rate by a half percentage point. The action last week came on top of a 75 ...

You can well imagine my surprise when looking for the next thing to blow up in the credit markets, I was informed it would be municipal bonds. There it is: Municipal bonds — the New Junk. You should be skeptical ...

I have taken the opportunity to speak with many first-year attorneys over the past several years and have found that one overwhelming concern is learning how to manage workload and meet “billable hour” requirements. This is quite understandable. All learned ...

Today’s financial information systems and software can, and do, produce extremely detailed assessments of law firm financial performance and, in fact, may provide far more data than the typical attorney can assimilate intelligently. The most practical approach to understanding your ...

Mention the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to many practitioners, and they immediately start looking for the exit. Admittedly, navigating ERISA can be a daunting task, and the applicable case law can vary by circuit. But the reality is ...

Mention the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to many practitioners, and they immediately start looking for the exit. Admittedly, navigating ERISA can be a daunting task, and the applicable case law can vary by circuit. But the reality is ...

According to a recent study by legal management consultant Altman Weil, the closer to retirement a lawyer gets the more likely he is to oppose mandatory retirement ages. Interviews with a number of aging lawyers suggest they don’t want to ...