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Susan Cartier-Liebel is solo practitioner, adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law and a business consultant for solo and small firms. She can be reached at [email protected]. Blawg site: www.buildasolopractice.com. The billable hour “cockroach” is being exterminated….one law firm ...

The U.S. housing bust is like a leaking ship. You may still be able to stay afloat, depending upon where and how bad the holes are. Will the home market continue to sink or is it just bobbing around waiting ...

Poor powerless Alan Greenspan. Having to serve on the board compensation committee of a lousy-performing company. Having a Doberman-like compensation consultant (me) “sicced” on that committee. Having to watch that committee approve excessive pay for the company’s top management. Yet ...

Used to be, when a drug lost its patent protection, that marked the beginning of the end. Out sprang the generic manufacturers, formulating the same compound at a fraction of the cost of the “name” pharmaceutical and slowly cannibalizing the ...

The 7th Circuit recently decided an interesting same-sex harassment case that addressed the question of when an employer is put on notice of potential workplace harassment. In Bernier v. Morningstar Inc., Todd Bernier sued Morningstar, under Title VII, claiming sexual ...

Anyone who doesn’t get their news through an IV drip from Fox or Rush Limbaugh knows, thanks to the New York Times, that George W. Bush has been secretly obtaining legal opinions that condone torture while publicly abiding by an ...

After three long years of law school, two grueling months of bar study, a rigorous and unforgiving bar exam and a joyous swearing-in ceremony, you are now ready to become a great attorney, right? Wrong! Successfully graduating from law school ...

After three long years of law school, two grueling months of bar study, a rigorous and unforgiving bar exam and a joyous swearing-in ceremony, you are now ready to become a great attorney, right? Wrong! Successfully graduating from law school ...

Anyone who doesn’t get their news through an IV drip from Fox or Rush Limbaugh knows, thanks to the New York Times, that George W. Bush has been secretly obtaining legal opinions that condone torture while publicly abiding by an ...

In the innocuously titled Michael Clayton, George Clooney portrays one of Hollywood’s not-so-innocuous stereotypes: a sleazy corporate lawyer. While title character Michael Clayton works in the sleek high-rise offices of a 600-lawyer firm, New York’s Kenner, Back & Ledeen, he ...

The Michael Devlin guilty-plea tour of St. Louis-area courthouses this week is a good thing. On Monday in Franklin County, Devlin admitted to kidnapping young William “Ben” Ownby at the point of a gun in January. He will plead guilty ...