In a recent Wall Street Journal article about the difficult job market for 2011 law school graduates, Dean Rudy Hasl of Thomas Jefferson Law School in San Diego said the following: “You can’t measure the value of a law degree ...

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NEW YORK — Calling it the next logical step in a near six-decade evolution, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said Thursday that it plans to split into two separate publicly traded companies. Under the proposal, one company will operate as a ...

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LOS ANGELES — Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said Tuesday that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies. The move comes as Britain’s communications regulator, Ofcom, enters the ...

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NEW YORK — Though Facebook bans children under 13, millions of them have profiles on the site by lying about their age. Now, the company is testing out ways to allow younger kids on its site without needing to lie. ...

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To bill (per hour) or not to bill (per hour)? That. Is the question. In today’s shaky economy law firms are talking about (and implementing) alternative payment methods to the traditional billable hour as corporations and other clients are less ...

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NEW YORK — News Corp. says Lex Fenwick, a Bloomberg LP executive, is the new CEO of Dow Jones & Co., the News Corp. subsidiary that publishes The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. Fenwick takes over a position ...

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LOS ANGELES — Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report. Facebook’s expected launch as a publicly traded company is the most hotly anticipated tech ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook might finally be laying down the groundwork for a highly anticipated initial public offering, long expected to take place sometime after April 2012. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the world’s largest online social network ...

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There were about 100 people on-hand for the first fundraiser to refuel the Business Leadership PAC, the political action committee affiliated with Maryland Business for Responsive Government and if the attendees were any indication, Republicans in Annapolis can expect to ...

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If anecdotal evidence was to be believed, we knew that law school applications were down. Now there’s hard data to back up those whispers. Applications have fallen by 10 percent for fall 2011, the steepest decline in a decade. Check ...

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