Former White House counsel Greg Craig surprised observers when he announced that he would be joining Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom rather than return to Williams…
Todd Neufeld doesn’t regret putting aside his career as a patent lawyer to become a full-time entertainer who twists balloons into creatures and costumes.
Lovells expects to close its approximately 20-lawyer Chicago office by the end of October. The decision was made after the firm conducted a strategic and financial review in…
White House counsel Bob Bauer helped President Obama win passage of his health care legislation by negotiating an executive order banning abortion funding.
Throughout the process, Bauer’s “political skills were…
Three partners in the dwindling Miami office of Ruden McClosky are leaving the firm at the end of the month to start their own law partnership, including bankruptcy and creditors’…
It all began with a conversation over a Red Sox baseball cap at an Arizona bar review course. Realizing they rooted for the same team, Christopher Corso and John Rhude…
A former Clifford Chance associate seeking to reopen a $350,000 bias settlement with the law firm claims a panic attack and pressure from her lawyer led her to accept the…
Authorities say they have solved the mystery surrounding the death of an Alabama tax lawyer and snack food heir whose body was pulled from a pond at a Birmingham, Ala.,…
The first students at the new law school at the University of California at Irvine will all be employed this summer, half of them with nonprofit groups.
After more than three years of litigation, an out-of-state law graduate has apparently tired of pursing a onetime federal class action over Wisconsin’s so-called diploma privilege, under which graduates of…
After being shot at and mortared while serving in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps in Iraq several years ago, the daily difficulties of fighting for consumer justice back…
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