Category: Legal News

Legal Times 150 - Washington-area Law Firm Survey

Posted by Laura Hosid at 9:59 AM - Categories: Law Firms | Legal News

The National Law Journal, December 12, 2011

For more than 30 years, the Legal Times has surveyed Washington-area law firms about their lawyer headcount. In the 2011 Legal Times 150, firms were asked to provide data for each office in the Washington metropolitan area — including the District of Columbia; Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland; and Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia.

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The 2011 Patent Litigation Survey

Posted by Laura Hosid at 12:52 PM - Categories: Legal News | Practice Areas

Corporate Counsel, November 29, 2011

"Judges and lawmakers are working to deter patent suits, but you wouldn't know it from the results of the 2011 edition of our annual Patent Litigation Survey. The survey, which ranks law firms according to how many federal district court patent cases they handled in 2010, reveals that the business of patent litigation is booming at many firms. For instance, Fish & Richardson, which took top honors for the eighth year in a row, handled 128 cases in 2010, compared to 99 last year—a 29 percent increase." 

"The Green Bay Packers Have the Best Owners in Football" – Alumni Profile of Mark Murphy, L’88

Posted by Laura Hosid at 9:08 AM - Categories: Alternative Careers | Alumni | Legal News

Mark H. Murphy, L'88, president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers and the first person to win Super Bowls as both player and CEO, is profiled in this Bloomberg Businessweek piece, "The Green Bay Packers Have the Best Owners in Football." Murphy attended Georgetown Law in the evening while he was assistant executive director at the NFLPA.

Clerkship Update – Recent Senate Confirmations

You can track information about which judges have recently been nominated and confirmed through the Senate Judiciary Committee site at http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/112thCongress.cfm.  Note that you can also view the confirmation hearings through the “Nominations Hearings” link on the left hand side of the page.

The U.S. Senate has recently confirmed the following twelve federal judges:  (including Georgetown Law alum Jennifer Guerin Zipps, on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona)

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Posted by Laura Hosid at 11:31 AM - Categories: Judicial Clerkships | Judicial Internships | Legal News

“The Making of a Conservative Lawmaker” – Alumni Profile of Barbara Comstock, L’86

Posted by Laura Hosid at 8:48 AM - Categories: All class years | Alternative Careers | Alumni | Government | Legal News

National Journal Daily, September 7, 2011

“Barbara Comstock has been a spokeswoman, lobbyist, political consultant, lawyer, and (since January 2010) a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from northern Fairfax County, just outside Washington. In the course of her hopscotch career, she went from working for a liberal icon to digging up dirt on Democrats for the national Republican Party.”

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“Patent Lawyer Demand Rises Following U.S. Legislative Overhaul” – Bloomberg News

Posted by Laura Hosid at 8:20 AM - Categories: All class years | Legal News | Practice Areas

Bloomberg, October 8, 2011

“Patent attorneys, who typically have degrees in fields such as engineering as well as law, are in such demand that their specialty may account for more than 15 percent of law firm job openings while representing just 3 percent of U.S. lawyers. Some law firms are almost doubling recruitment fees to meet the growing demand for intellectual property specialists, particularly in the technology sector, said T.J. Duane, a principal at legal recruitment firm Lateral Link.”

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American Lawyer Summer Associates Survey 2011

Posted by Laura Hosid at 8:34 AM - Categories: All class years | Law Firms | Legal News

The American Lawyer, September 30, 2011

“Law students who spent summer 2011 as associates at some of the nation's largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that life at such firms can have. They ended the season believing that reputation isn't deserved—at least for the firms where they worked.

That's one of the conclusions to be drawn from The American Lawyer’s annual Summer Associates Survey, which polled 3,656 students at 138 law firms. Among the survey's other main findings: This year's summers were largely satisfied with the substantive quality of the work they were assigned, annoyed that they didn't have job offers in hand by the time they returned to school, and—in a possibly shameless display of enthusiasm—eager to work for a longer stretch of the summer than the eight or ten weeks that most firms' programs typically run.”

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