It’s not just regional law firms in the United States that are combining operations. Recent major tie-ups beyond U.S

With law schools under heavy criticism for not producing practice-ready attorneys, two professors have come up with a novel fix, suggesting that law schools should operate their own law firms to help graduates gain needed skills at little expense — and possibly a profit — for the schools.

With one of their own sitting in the Oval Office, it’s reasonable to think that legal academics might enjoy an edge in snagging nominations for plum judicial and executive branch posts. But some law professors have received a relatively chilly reception in Washington of late.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views

Some Fairfield investors are objecting to a proposed settlement between the funds and the Madoff Investment Securities liquidation trustee Irving Picard, arguing that a provision in the settlement is an “abomination” because it would bar their own claims against Fairfield management.

A federal judge has provisionally certified two classes in a case against Cigna subsidiaries that are alleged to have invested employee death benefits for their own profit without properly disclosing the practice or making a full accounting to beneficiaries.