This morning’s top stories:
The Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished Judge Ellen Yacknin for soliciting support from an attorney for Yacknin’s Supreme Court candidacy, moments before she presided over a case involving the attorney’s client…
Sources at Biglaw firms are saying their 2009 paychecks are identical to their 2008 ones — with no actual announcement of a salary freeze…
Two lawyers at Patton Boggs LLP now represent Emanuel Zeltser, the human rights lawyer kidnapped from London and imprisoned in a Belarus prison…
Clifford Chance 
has launched a redundancy program in its London headquarters, with the Magic Circle firm set to cut up to 80 lawyers…
Pollster Matt Towery is rejoining Atlanta-based law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge as of counsel…
