The U.S. economy continued to hemorrhage jobs in the first month of the 2010, but the overall unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent, according to the latest employment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the legal sector lost another 1,100 jobs in January, the number marked a noticeable drop-off from previous months. Since January of last year the legal services industry shed 44,700 workers.

[via Law.com - Legal Sector Lost 1,100 Jobs in January.]

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Need to get up to speed on immigration law issues? If so, you should check out the Corporate Immigration Law News blog for the latest updates. The blog is published by Meyner and Landis LLP, which has a full service immigration law practice. Their immigration law team was founded by Anthony F. Siliato, Esq., who has been practicing immigration law for over twenty-five years. To learn more, visit the Corporate Immigration Law News blog to read their latest posts.

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Failing to be up to speed on eDiscovery issues and the related Federal Rules of Civil Procedure can not only raises issues for your company, it can also expose you to sanctions and liability for substantial attorneys’ fees and costs.

[via Electronic Discovery and Evidence: "Wake up Call" for In-house Counsel - Sanctions Issued - Failure to Preserve and Legal Hold.]

Thomson Reuters Legal CEO Peter Warwick introduced a new international pro bono legal service during a session with former United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed ElBaradei at LegalTech New York on Monday. From the outset of the discussion, Warwick, a trustee of the nonprofit Thomson Reuters Foundation, challenged the roughly 200 lawyers and legal services professionals in the audience to take on new pro bono projects to help extend the rule of law around the globe.

[via Law.com - Thomson Reuters Introduces International Pro Bono Project Connecting NGOs to Lawyers.]

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An entire industry has grown up around interpreting legal research needs and finding information for lawyers and their clients. Researchers have to remember where information resides and extract relevant documents in a compressed amount of time using Boolean syntax and other search strategies. LexisNexis’ Lexis for Microsoft and Thomson Reuters’ WestlawNext aim to make online research easy, and effective, through very different strategies that will make for an interesting show at LegalTech New York, Feb. 1-3.

[via Law.com - Westlaw, LexisNexis Debut Revamped Research Tools at LegalTech New York.]

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Save the date for Corporate Counsel’s 22nd Annual General Counsel Conference, to be held from June 8-10 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.

[via 22nd Annual General Counsel Conference - ALM Events.]

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Another GC steps up to the top executive slot (albeit in an acting capacity):

Well, sure hope he’s ready for his acting job. Digital media giant RealNetworks, Inc. has uploaded its general counsel to the post of acting chief executive officer. The Seattle-based maker of software that streams and downloads audio, video, and other multimedia content announced on Tuesday that it’s named former general counsel Robert Kimball as acting CEO. He replaces company founder Rob Glaser, who stepped down from the post after 16 years. Glaser remains chairman of the board of directors of RealNetworks.

[via Like Your Acting Job? RealNetworks Uploads Their GC to Acting CEO.]

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A survey by executive compensation firm Equilar finds that general counsel earned on average about $1.4 million in 2009, thanks to trends toward more responsibility, higher pay and more focus on the GC role. But not every general counsel was equally fortunate on the compensation front. Differences in reporting structure, region, experience and industry were big influences on individual GCs’ financial well-being.

[via Law.com - Great Responsibility Comes With Great Pay, GC Survey Shows.]

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Interesting news for those looking for in-house counsel jobs in the D.C. area:

The Jan. 4 announcement that Northrop Grumman will move its HQ from L.A. to the Washington area doesn’t just mean that the region could see as many as 150 new jobs—it also means the company will relocate at least part of its general counsel’s office.

[via Look Out D.C., a Major Client Is Coming to Town].

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