The most talked about general counsel in the news in the last week was, of course, former Penn State general counsel Cynthia Baldwin.

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Looks like more bad news this week for law school graduates. Starting salaries for the class of 2011 are down across the board. Mean starting salaries for first-year associates fell 6.5 percent, according to numbers from the National Association for ...

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It was the best times and the worst of times in the law blog round-up this Monday. Though, it was mostly just the worst of times if you are a current or incoming law school student – or if you ...

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This week it is all about Facebook and Twitter, even for general counsels. Asked: Our weekly question to the In-House community National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon issued his latest report on employee social media use ...

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Forget six figures. Apparently some law school graduates are just looking to get paid, period. Boston College Law School posted a job opening on the school’s online job bank that pays $10,000. And this is where it gets interesting: the ...

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COLLEGE PARK — The Board of Regents for Maryland’s university system has approved a 3 percent tuition increase for most in-state students. The board approved the tuition hike on Wednesday. This is the third year in a row that tuition ...

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WASHINGTON — Metro’s top 16 executives took home $3.1 million in salaries in 2011. The Washington Post reports that Metro General Manager Richard Sarles’ $350,000 salary is more than that of his counterpart in New York. Meanwhile, Metro is deciding ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland judges’ salaries will increase by roughly 3 percent annually starting in fiscal 2014, hiking their pay by more than $14,000 over three years. The House of Delegates signed off on the proposal Tuesday afternoon, conferring with state ...

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Last year, 5,522 state employees brought home paychecks that added up to $100,000 or more, according to salary figures from the comptroller’s office. That’s about 6 percent of most full-time workers employed by the state and 383 more than in ...

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LOS ANGELES — A new economic forecast calls for the U.S. economy to make some modest growth strides this year, but not quite enough to significantly reduce the number of jobless Americans looking for work. About two-thirds of the economists ...

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