The American Lawyer to Launch New Web Site with Extended Online . Coverage of 2008 Am Law 100

Coverage of 2008 Am Law 100 24/04/2008 14:25:00 Business Wire The American Lawyer, the leading legal magazine focused on the world s largest law firms, will formally launch its new Web site at www.americanlawyer.com on April 30.
The site will debut with extended online coverage of the results of the 2008 Am Law 100 rankings including Web-exclusive charts projecting profitability of these firms for the year 2025.
Editor in chief Aric Press will preview and evaluate this year s Am Law 100 results in a free webinar at 3:00 p.m.
ET on Tuesday, April 29.
To register for the webinar, visit www.americanlawyer.com/amlaw100webinar.
The new site will feature daily news coverage of the legal business, including breaking news reporting on developments at the world s leading law firms, and on the lawyers and professionals working in and with those firms.
News will be spotlighted in The Am Law Daily, focusing each day on topics related to "The Firms," "The Talent," "The Work," "The Management," "The Score" and "The Life." Online subscribers and registered users will receive a free daily e-newsletter highlighting top stories.
A second e-newsletter, focused on litigation news, will launch in June.
The site will also feature full access to each month s print issue and a searchable content archive of past issues.
Current issues and the site archives will be available free to registered users until July 31.
Upcoming online coverage will include "Managing the Downturn," a regular feature exploring how different law firms and individuals are handling business slowdowns; extended online reporting on "Big Bankruptcies," "Big Deals" and "Big Suits;" and an examination of expanding maternity leave policies at many firms, as well as Q&As with prominent industry figures.
"Our Web site is a new publication for us.
We plan to bring to it the same vigor, fairness and judgment that have been hallmarks of the print magazine.
We hope this will prove valuable to our audience--old and new," said Aric Press, editor in chief.
The American Lawyer s Am Law 100 has been recognized as the definitive public ranking of annual financial performance for the nation s largest law firms since its introduction in 1987.
Am Law 100/200 metrics are primary benchmarks for law firms seeking to assess their competitive position in the marketplace.
AmericanLawyer.com is a leading daily news source covering legal business and lawyers across the U.S.
and around the world.
The site offers news, resources, and tools that are essential to lawyers and administrators at the largest law firms.
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Law enforcement on special watch for traffic violations on U.S. 30, 67

By Times staff | Saturday, April 26, 2008
Law enforcement agencies serving Clinton County will conduct a multi-jurisdictional enforcement project April 25-26.

The area of concentration will be focused on U.S. 30, U.S. 67, Mill Creek Parkway and roads adjacent to those major arteries.

Officers from the Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Transportation, Clinton County Sheriff’s Department and Camanche, Clinton and DeWitt police departments will look for alcohol-related violations, seat belt and child restraint violations, speed, stop sign and other violations.

Society gains law firm's historic safe, original lease

Representatives from Krieg DeVault, a law firm in Schererville, commemorated nearly 100 years of legal service in Northwest Indiana by presenting its historic office safe to the Hammond Historical Society.

The safe originally belonged to a predecessor firm, Galvin Galvin & Leeney, which merged with Krieg DeVault in 2002.

The historical society also was given the original copy of "Lease No. 1" dated Nov. 1, 1925, when Tim Galvin Sr. and his brother Frank Galvin and their partners became the first tenants in the then newly constructed nine-story office building in downtown Hammond.

The building was known originally as the First Trust & Savings Bank Building, later as the Bank Calumet Building and now is owned by First Midwest Bank.

Tim Galvin Sr. began practicing in Valparaiso in 1916.

Patrick Galvin, his son and a current partner in Krieg DeVault, is pleased by the donation.

"On behalf of the Galvin family and the law firm of Krieg DeVault, I am pleased that this fine old safe and the building lease from decades ago can be preserved as part of the history of Hammond and Northwest Indiana," he said in a news release.

Krieg DeVault, a law firm of 130 professionals providing legal services to businesses and individuals throughout Indiana and the nation, has offices in Schererville, Chicago, Indianapolis, Carmel and Noblesville.

- The Times