•  Skadden Posts Huge Capital Gains

•  Ex-Associate Says She Was Drugged at Holiday Party, BigLaw Firm Responds

•  BigLaw Partner Axed Amidst Insider Trading Allegations

•  Pension Probe Will Snare "Hundreds" of NY Attorneys, Cuomo Predicts

•  Manhattan DA Names New Right-Hand Man

•  Making Seven Minutes Count

•  Federal Reserve Joins Bankruptcy Pro Bono Efforts

•  One BigLaw Business Decision May Have Saved a Small Town

•  Queen of Mean?: Judge Accused of Demanding Royal Treatment

•  NY Prosecutor's Vouching for Cop-Witness Voids Drug Conviction

•  Foxy Brown Pleads Guilty to Menacing Brooklyn Neighbor

•  Grave Robber: "Funeral Day Burglar" Convicted on 10 Counts

•  Mall Rats: Judge Bans Four Shoplifters From Shopping Malls

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Crossroads
Every Tuesday, Linda E. Laufer, Director of Career Development at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, answers your questions about what to do next in your career. She can advise you where to go from here, whether you are trying to find your place on the legal map, make some changes in the scenery, or blaze a trail out of practice altogether. Of course, the views that she expresses are her own and not those of Morgan Lewis. Today's topic: After eight years as a BigLaw litigator, my chances of making partner are slim. Will my my lack of deal/regulatory/contract experience keep me from moving in-house?
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Advice for the Lawlorn
Every Monday, Ann Israel, president of Ann Israel & Associates, Inc. and a past president of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants, answers your questions about how to find a new law firm job, interviews, resumes and much more. Today's topic: My role and responsibilities at the firm I joined a month ago are not and will not be as promised, and the type of law I will be practicing is very different. So I'm interviewing again. What do I tell hiring partners?
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  News Watch

Thursday
•  February Bar Exam Pass Rate Increases Over Last Year
•  BigLaw in the Outer Boroughs? Who'd a Thunk It?
•  Like Taking Candy From a Baby: NY Lawyers Close Sweet Deal for $23 Billion
•  NY Boutique Partner Makes Jump to BigLaw
•  The Upside of the Downturn
•  NY BigLaw Leader Hires Ex-Prosecutor as Pro Bono Coordinator
•  BigLaw Firm Reckons That China Beckons
•  Judge's Pre-Retirement Ruling for Local Firm He Planned To Join Irks Colleagues
•  Juggling Local Lawyer's Vacation Costs Client Verdict on Appeal
•  More NY Lawyers Lose Public Pensions
•  Human Rights Expert Named Dean of NY Law School
•  Not a Penny for Their Thoughts: Harvard Law Makes Faculty Articles Free
•  Lawyer Arrested on Charge of Criticizing Zimababwe's President
•  Lawyer Taped Meeting at Which Govrnor's Aide Fired Him
•  Uma Thurman Back in NY Courts in Million Buck Beef With Cosmetics Giant
•  Dan Rather Says Other Networks Wouldn't Touch Him After CBS Dumped Him
•  Amy Winehouse Busted Over Video of Her Doing Drugs
•  Reality Show Director Won't Be Charged With Imprisoning His Cast
Wednesday
•  NY Associate's Lawsuit Over the Stabbing of His Baby Dismissed
•  BigLaw for Dummies
•  Schoolhouse Rock
•  NY Partners Switching Firms
•  NY BigLaw Firm Partners With Local College to Help Minorities Get Into Law School
•  NY Firm's Kickback Scheme Has GOP Calling Lawyers' Conduct an "Economic Threat"
•  BigLaw Firm Names New Leader in Big Apple
•  NY Firm Opens Two New Offices in a Week
•  Firm's Early Retirement Offer Nets Rival Three-Partner Windfall
•  Women Partners (and Some Guys) Quit BigLaw Firms to Launch Their Own
•  BigLaw Marketing Chief Switches Firms
•  Partner Quits for Chance "to Help My Fellow Attorneys Discover a New Way to Practice Law"
•  Lawyer Pleads to Dump Foul-Mouthed Client, Be Forgiven $29,000 Sanction
•  Faith-Based Initiative: Some Combine Lawyering With Worship
•  Credit Check: Judge Tossed From Bench for 1980s Credit Card Scam
•  Judge Stirs Up Controversy With Donations to Obama
•  US Attorney Resigns as Bush Administration Exodus Begins
•  Special Counsel's Office Raided Amid Obstruction Probe
•  Prosecutors Drank and Drove, TV Station Says
•  Chief Judge Forced to Resign After DUI
•  Britney Spears Gets More Time With Her Kids
•  "Harry Potter" Author Wins Appeal on Privacy in Bid to Publish Son's Photo
•  Cradle-Robbing Bride and Her Groom Reach Deal on Baby's Custody
•  "Crocodile Hunter" Widow Settles Lawsuit With Debt Collector
Tuesday
•  Boo!: Skadden Scares Microsoft Off Yahoo
•  Banks Getting Tougher on BigLaw Loans
•  BigLaw Firm Banks on Bankruptcy, Bags Five-Lawyer NY Team
•  NY Firm Loses Satellite Leader
•  Once More With Feeling: NY Firm Loses Satellite Leader
•  iN DEMAND: NY Associate Moves In-House
•  BigLaw Firm's Lateral Binge Boosts Revenue, But Profits Slip
•  US Firm Plucks Partners From Rivals Both Foreign and Domestic
•  Phasers on Stun!: Shatner Show Takes On the Roberts Court
•  BigLaw Firm Adds Lone Star Appellate Czar
•  Solo Takes Reins at NY Bar Group, Stresses Work-Life Balance
•  NY Judge Dies
•  Lights, Camera, No Acting: Former NY DA Gets TV Show
•  His Lawyer's Stalikng Indicment Gets Murder Client New Trial
•  Lessons From 9/11: Bill Would Change NY Courts Response to Crisis
•  Apparently Forged Memo From Judge Sought Help in "Getting Rid of Blacks"
•  Jet Blue Didn't Spoil Passenger (Or Her Lawsuit), NY Judge Finds
•  Uma Stalker Headed to Slammer
•  Gay Gov's Divorce Trial Gets Going
Monday
•  NY BigLaw Leader Says G'Bye to GC in Surprise Move
•  Fewer Guppies Will Swim in "The Shark Tank" This Summer
•  How Rainmakers Do It
•  NY Judge Sues Manhattan Attorney, Daily News for $10 Million
•  Firm Grabs Another Office Leader, Two Others From Rival
•  Joking Judge No Laughing Matter to Local Lawyer in Case of NBA Star's Kin
•  NY Firm Denied Full Hourly Rate for Travel
•  April Is the Cruelest Month: Legal Sector Lost Jobs Again
•  AG Says He Won't Quit Despite Confessing Affair, Scandals and Pols' Pleas
•  NY Lawyer Resigns State Job as IG Says Part-Time Job Took No Time at All
•  Left-Coast Lawyers On the Move
•  FBI: Federal Courthouse Pipe-Bombed Sunday
•  NFL Tries to Sack Federal Judge, 78, Who Threw Flag on Free Agency Scheme
•  New Lawyer Has a Powerful Past
•  Mildred Loving, Who Fought Landmark Civil Rights Case for Love, Dies
•  Supreme Court Judge's Wife Indicted for Second Time Over Fire
•  NY Suit Seeks Damages From ESPN for Use of Norman Rockwell's Classic Baseball Art
•  Cradle-Robbing Bride Wants Baby Back
•  NFL Player Busted
Friday
•  BigLaw Firm Deals With Relentless Plague of Defections
•  Merger-Hungry BigLaw Firm in Rush, Rush to Sweet Charlotte
•  From BigLaw to the Big House: What Can Recently Convicted Firm Leaders Expect in Lock-Up?
•  Firm Leader Plunks Down $6.4 Million for Fourth Home
•  Attorney General Admits Affair With Employee as Cronies Are Canned, Quit
•  BigLaw Partner Heads Back to Law School . . in Ethiopia?
•  Wilson Sonsini Named in Backdating Suit
•  Everyday Matters: Origination Fees
•  Can't Drive 55? NY Firm Specializes in Flooring Traffic Tickets
•  NY Judges Warned Against Insulting Legislators, Retaliatory Recusals in Pay Impasse
•  Police: "DC Madam" Hangs Herself, Makes Good on Vow Never to Go to Prison
•  Rob Lowe's Ex-Nanny Tearfully Pleads Her Case at Press Conference
•  Pair Convicted of Blackmailing British Royal Won't Be Beheaded, But Get 5 Year in Prison
•  Dennis Rodman Arrested for Alleged Domestic Dispute in LA Hotel