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Proskauer Rose partner Ronald Sernau has been busy negotiating a new New York lease for the law firm and developing software to standardize commercial leases. Sernau couldn’t divulge the cost of the lease on 13 floors of a new glass building across from the Port Authority Terminal. But he tells the New York Times in a Q-and-A interview that “we got a great deal.” Sernau, who co-chairs Proskauer’s real estate division, told the Times that “the negotiations went on forever—look, it’s a big lease.” Sernau says landlords are offering better deals these days, “but the market isn’t as flush as…more...

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Mark L. Ascher (Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law, University of Texas) will present the Hugh J. and Frank Tamisiea Lecture in Trusts and Estates entitled Why the Grantor Trust Rules Should be Repealed on September 10, 2010. The...more...

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The subwoofer can overheat when the speaker system is played at high outputs for an extended period of time, posing a fire hazard to consumers.more...

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The Indiana Supreme Court has issued a private reprimand to a lawyer and a warning to others in an ethics case concerning a neglected application for pro hac vice status. The court found that an Indiana lawyer, who wasn’t identified, partnered with a Kentucky lawyer in a personal injury case, but failed to ensure that the Kentucky lawyer applied for temporary bar admission. The court said the Indiana lawyer had engaged in misconduct by helping his co-counsel engage in the unauthorized practice of law, the Associated Press reports. “The failure of out-of-state attorneys and their Indiana co-counsel to comply with…more...

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Once derided for hiring “third tier trash” as law clerks, Justice Clarence Thomas confined his hires this year to clerks from law schools ranked in the top 15 by U.S. News & World Report. Still, Thomas still thinks outside the box created by his colleagues, the New York Times reports. About half of the Supreme Court law clerks hired since Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court in 2005 attended just two law schools—Harvard and Yale. One-fourth of the clerks attended four other schools—Virginia, Stanford, Chicago and Columbia. This term, Thomas’ clerks come from top 15 schools Duke,…more...

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The legal sector added 1,000 jobs law month, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the second month of job gains in the legal field, the American Lawyer reports. The government originally reported that the legal sector lost 800 jobs in July, but a readjustment now shows a gain of 300 jobs for the month. Despite the gain, there are still 14,000 fewer jobs in the legal sector than a year ago, the story says.more...

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A hearing officer in Arizona has recommended a six-month suspension for a lawyer accused of claiming that she was possessed by the spirit of a client's dead wife, then lying about in an unrelated disciplinary matter. The lawyer, Charna Johnson, testified in the subsequent disciplinary hearing on the channeling claims that that vague references to sex in e-mails she sent to the client were from the client’s deceased wife, and there was no sexual contact, according to the hearing officer’s report (PDF). The National Law Journal has the story. The hearing on the channeling allegations pitted two experts who disagreed…more...

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A Forbes columnist recently listed seven reasons why the return of the estate tax is undesirable: It is foolish to argue that the government needs revenue now more than ever because by that logic, forms of taxation could multiply without...more...

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