ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter. May 15, 2009.

Top Ten Stories of the Week ending May 15, 2009:

Law Firms Did ‘Financial Insanity’ and ‘Greedy Lawyers’ Doom WolfBlock?
May 14, 2009, 09:07 am CDT
Law Firms Some 2010 Summer Associate Programs Are Being Axed or Scaled Back May 13, 2009, 08:40 am CDT
Plus:

Some Deferred Start Dates May Become Withdrawn Job Offers
DLA Piper Axes 124 in UK Offices
Fish & Richardson Lays Off 120
Hunton & Williams Lays Off 23 Lawyers and 64 Staffers
Law Firms Firm Named for Bill Gates’ Father Is Axed as Microsoft Preferred Provider May 14, 2009, 06:33 am CDT
Law Schools US News ‘Investigating’ Brooklyn Law School’s Ranking
May 11, 2009, 10:00 am CDT
Plus:

Website Uses Student E-Mail Spam to Rank Top Party Law Schools

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia Tells Law Student Why She Probably Won’t Be His Law Clerk May 12, 2009, 07:20 am CDT
Financial Crisis Judge Posner Blames ‘People Like Me’ for the Economic Crisis
May 13, 2009, 11:47 am CDT
Law Practice Management Disappointments Preceded Suicides by Lawyers at Three Major Law Firms May 11, 2009, 07:27 am CDT
Women in the Law Michelle Obama: Why I Left BigLaw
May 12, 2009, 06:40 pm CDT
Careers What Gender Gap? Many Women Lawyers w/ Kids Do as Well as Men, Researcher Says May 12, 2009, 07:14 pm CDT
Judiciary O’Connor on Judicial Elections: ‘They’re Awful. I Hate Them’
May 9, 2009, 08:09 am CDT

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