Campus legal posts sinecures no more; only topnotch and versatile need apply for fun but demanding jobs

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The top pay of a university general counsel is $150,000 to $200,000 at major private universities and $125,000 to $175,000 at the biggest state universities, but applications come by the hundreds whenever there is a position open. A generalist will make the best employee as a university is a microcosm of everything that happens in the real world. Issues universities face include health care reform for ones which have medical schools and teaching hospitals; downsizing and doing more work in-house; enlarging the school's revenue stream with patentable discoveries made by science departments and changes in affirmative action as a result of Hopwood v. Texas. University lawyers face a great variety of matters.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Officials and employees, Universities and colleges

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The wine bar

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Lawyers who represent the wine industry say most of their time is spent dealing with the plethora of regulations covering the industry. These are a legacy of Prohibition. When vintners who immigrated to the US started naming their wines, they appropriated place names from their European countries of origin. The European Community, upset at this state of affairs, has erected trade barriers against American wines. In Europe the wine industry is vertically integrated, but this is prohibited by tied house laws in the US.

Laws, regulations and rules, Wine industry, Wineries

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Moving into cyberspace as notaries; the need to authenticate electronic documents is a new frontier for attorneys

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Two American Bar Assn committees and a number of other groups are developing rules for authenticating electronic documents, potentially opening a major new field for lawyers. These so-called cybernotaries would equate more to notaries public in Europe and S America than to those in the US. The position will demand an understanding of international law, contract law, and how electronic signatures work in considerable detail. Some experts say large firms will need this service first, but small ones now lead the way.

Innovations, Legal documents, Authentication, Authentication (Identity)

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