Daisy Wong writes a Chinese-language blog, newspaper column and book series purportedly chronicling the personal and professional life of a young female associate at one of the top law firms in Hong Kong. Is she for real? Several lawyers speculate she is not, but that the featured firm and the lawyers are based on real-life equivalents.Visit International News

Examining a list of the law firms considered tops for working mothers, Vivia Chen notes that, although all 50 firms offer reduced hours and 47 say lawyers who work reduced hours are eligible for equity partnership, only 10 percent of the lawyers actually trimmed their hours, and only 0.375 percent were promoted to equity while working part time. Visit The Careerist

A federal judge has denied class certification in a suit over the marketing of Arizona iced tea as “100% Natural” because the plaintiff hired her lawyers seven months before buying the product.

A malpractice and fraud suit against Holland & Knight raises a question of urgent interest to real estate investor-plaintiffs with projects that are underwater: Can they hold responsible the lawyers who handled real estate transactions for ventures that did not pan out?

A fee fight stemming from a confidential settlement of Prudential Life employees’ suit against the company has spilled out into the open, as a bank that loaned money to one of the lawyers tries to enforce a $10 million judgment against him.