Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau got lots of press when he retired from public service at age 90—and soon announced he was joining Wachtell,…
Nearly 30 large law firms have replaced lockstep compensation for associates with merit-based compensation, a system that will likely produce some winners and losers.
Two seasoned partners have left a well-known Connecticut-based law firm to form their own small practice, where they now answer their own phones, clean the coffeepot and, noting that the…
Updated: White & Case is scrambling to shore up its offices in London and the Middle East after losing 13 partners to Latham & Watkins and a 14th to Allen…
Law firms that offered deferred associates up to $80,000 to pursue public interest work may be in for a rude awakening: The future talent pool is happy and unwilling to…
A former partner says the U.K. law firm Eversheds was neither swift nor decisive after a colleague questioned the commitment of a job candidate, a new mother.
Bingham McCutchen is paying new lawyers in London 100,000 pounds—a salary that is the highest of any U.S. law firm and more than the amount paid by the United Kingdom’s…
Miami lawyer Peter Prieto is leaving his seat as chair of Holland & Knight’s defense-oriented litigation group to do plaintiffs work for a boutique across town.
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