Jasbina Ahluwalia isn’t practicing law anymore. But her legal skills are key to her new career—as a matchmaker for fellow professionals of South Asian descent.
A California trial lawyer slain outside his Los Angeles home last month was involved in several contentious cases, spurring detectives to look for a link between an unhappy litigant and…
When President Barack Obama was searching for a new U.S. Supreme Court justice, he made clear that he was looking for someone with real-world experience.
The stunning news that a former White House lawyer and Xerox Corp. general counsel had been charged with attempting to murder his wife this week in an alleged out-of-control rage…
After 20 years of practice at Latham & Watkins, intellectual property litigator Kenneth Fitzgerald says he figured he was at a point in his career where he had two choices:…
Students considering whether to pursue a law degree should consider the career of Ryan McAllister of Fireman’s Fund Insurance. He works standard hours indoors, doesn’t do any heavy lifting and…
A NALP commission is recommending that law firms push back the date for summer associate job offers until mid-January of the second year of law school, giving employers more time…
In the latest move in an ongoing wave of pay cuts among a number of well-known law firms, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has confirmed that it is cutting the starting…
Associate level distinctions and compensation based on class year, a standard at lockstep firms, are quickly being eliminated as more law firms move toward classifying lawyers by skill sets and…
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