Joining a number of other well-known law firms that have announced plans to eliminate so-called lockstep pay, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr announced today that it will be moving…
Apparently implementing a strategic initiative announced earlier this year, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has announced a new three-tiered associate compensation plan.
Billed as offering flexibility to all associates and a…
New associates headed for Cravath, Swaine & Moore this year were offered a sweet deferral deal: Take the year off in exchange for $80,000 along with benefits and student loan…
The Georgia Supreme Court has adopted new rules that help out-of-state lawyers who volunteer for state offices and nonprofits get valuable courtroom experience.
A Los Angeles lawyer has pleaded guilty and agreed to accept up to a five-year prison term in a tax shelter scheme that involved a $35 million offshore account.
Although most senior lawyers at the now-defunct Heller Ehrman firm apparently have yet to agree to a payout to the bankrupt law firm’s creditors, a group of 62 primarily junior…
Robert H. Henry, chief judge of the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, stunned colleagues, friends and staff Thursday when he announced that he’ll give up his lifetime federal…
Cuts in associate pay are being blamed on the recession. But even when the market rebounds, consultants and law firm partners aren’t expecting associate pay to rebound with it.
Breaking Media, the parent company of the legal tabloid blog Above the Law, announced Jonah Bloom, current editor of Crain’s Communications’ Advertising Age, will join the company as CEO and…
A partner at a Los Angeles law firm who was shot in the head outside his upscale home earlier this week was murdered, police now say, ruling out the possibility…
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