Marketing: Replace ‘no comment’ with pithy quotes
By Nora Lockwood Tooher
Published: September 29, 2008
Some law firms hire consultants for all or part of their media relations. But lawyers can generate a lot of favorable publicity on their own, just by following a few basic media relations rules, according to Larry Bodine, a legal marketing consultant in Chicago (www.larrybodine.com).
“I recommend lawyers do just what the PR people do,” [...]
Lawyers in the News
By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: September 29, 2008
Douglas P. Rucker Jr., a shareholder in the law firm of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, has been selected to join the board of directors for Needle’s Eye Ministries Inc. Rucker has served for years on the advisory board for the local Christian ministry. He is also a founding member of the Richmond Christian Leadership [...]
Work on dam stopped after new cost estimates
By News in Brief
Published: September 29, 2008
CHARLOTTESVILLE—Local officials have halted design work on a project to build a dam at Ragged Mountain Reservoir after learning that the estimated cost has nearly doubled.
The project was intended to supply drinking water to the Charlottesville area for the next 50 years. But an engineering firm raised the original $37 million cost estimate to $70 [...]
Port Authority to cut staff, reorganize
By News in Brief
Published: September 29, 2008
NORFOLK—The Virginia Port Authority board has unanimously voted to reorganize the agency and cut staffing.
The decision last week includes offering early retirement buyouts in an attempt to reduce the agency’s 157-person staff by 7 percent, adding three new deputy executive directors and consolidating marketing and sales departments with Virginia International Terminals Inc.
The port authority is [...]
Appeals court answers high court concern on dismissals
By News in Brief
Published: September 29, 2008
The Virginia Court of Appeals has responded to a Supreme Court of Virginia opinion in April that took the intermediate appellate court to task for dismissing cases under Rule 5A:20(e).
That provision requires that the opening brief include “[t]he principles of law, the argument, and the authorities relating to each question presented.” In several cases, the [...]
Ex-Appeals Court clerk Davis takes JPE post
By News in Brief
Published: September 29, 2008
Patricia Davis is the new director of the Judicial Performance Evaluation Program, the state’s three-year old system for surveying the performance of sitting judges.
Davis served as the first clerk of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and as a senior editor of the Division of Legislative Service’s Virginia Code Revision project, which was put on hold [...]
With pay and penalties, companies push law firm diversity
By Kimberly Atkins
Published: September 29, 2008
Companies are using the proverbial carrot, or stick, or sometimes both to prompt real movement toward greater diversity in law firm staffing for corporate legal matters.
Some companies offer bonuses to law firms. Others threaten to take away their business.
And some go so far as to use computer software to monitor the staffing at law firms.
Whatever [...]
DOJ shifts privilege policy
By Kimberly Atkins
Published: September 29, 2008
Federal prosecutors can no longer demand that companies waive the attorney-client privilege as a bargaining chip in corporate criminal prosecutions, the Department of Justice recently announced.
The DOJ’s new corporate charging policy replaces the controversial McNulty Memo.
The move was hailed by legal and business organizations as well as lawmakers, but many said they still want legislation [...]
How Millennials could change the legal workplace
By Justin Rebello
Published: September 29, 2008
Over the course of the last decade, Terri Krivosha has noticed a widening generation gap in her firm between baby boomers, older Generation Xers and a new crop of young attorneys – the Millennials.
“Each generation waits for the generation that follows them to get it,” said Krivosha, a baby boomer and partner at Maslon, Edelman, [...]
Legislation could spur spike in ADA suits
By Kimberly Atkins
Published: September 29, 2008
Lawmakers are poised to pass new legislation that would broaden the number of people considered disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The law, if passed, would likely cause a rise in requests for workplace accommodations, and a spike in charges of discrimination and lawsuits as workers and employers tangle over what is a disability.
The effects [...]
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