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  • Two-Year Law School? Don’t Rush the Paper Chase.

    When William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, proposed to add a law school to the new university in 1902, he entrusted the project to Ernst Freund, a political-science professor, former practicing lawyer and well-known expert on police power and the free-speech rights of dissidents.

  • Clifford Chance, Covington, Chadbourne: Business of Law

    Three of the U.K.’s highest-grossing law firms raised salaries for London lawyers, who can earn as much as 65,000 pounds ($99,000) in their first year after qualifying to practice.

  • Wilson Sonsini Advises Salesforce on ExactTarget Takeover

    Salesforce.com Inc., the largest maker of customer-management software, agreed to buy ExactTarget Inc. for about $2.5 billion, making its biggest acquisition ever to expand in online marketing. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP worked on the deal.

  • Coronavirus, Playboy, C&C, Argo: Intellectual Property

    The novel coronavirus found in Saudi Arabia has been patented by scientists outside the country, Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish told the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

  • Did You Graduate in Four Years? Congratulations

    For the U.S. college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor’s degree long after graduation day, here’s some consolation: At least it didn’t take you six or eight years.

  • American Bar Association Says Kagan Well Qualified for U.S. Supreme Court

    The American Bar Association , the nation’s largest legal professional association, said U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan is well qualified to be on the Supreme Court.

  • The Right Way to Craft a Living Will

    You're hospitalized and your family faces impossible choices. This is the scenario living wills are supposed to help with. By signing an advance directive, you think you're spelling out your wishes and preventing a nightmare like the fight among Terri Schiavo's relatives.

  • SEC’s White Said to Push for Lifting Ban on Hedge-Fund Ads

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Jo White is pushing to adopt a rule allowing hedge funds to advertise in a move consumer advocates say could fail to protect unsophisticated investors, according to two people familiar with the matter.

  • Making the Most of Webinars

    If you're anything like I am, you listen to webinars with one ear, occasionally checking your computer screen if a graph or image is referenced, perhaps catching up on email or articles while the webinar is running in the background. Despite the challenges for viewers, everyone from for-profit companies like LinkedIn and Procter and Gamble to non-profits like the Red Cross and City Year to professional associations like...

  • FTC Commissioner Edith Ramirez Named by Obama as Chairman

    Edith Ramirez, a campaign official for President Barack Obama and one of his law school classmates, will be named as head the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, where she has been a commissioner for almost three years, according to a White House official.

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