Expecting a big payoff, the lead plaintiffs law firm in a massive class action against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. invested about $5 million in attorney and staff time and $2 million…
Upholding a San Diego Superior Court dismissal of a shareholder derivative suit against a law firm, a state appeals court agreed that the litigation against the law firm, which served…
Both a lender and a developer involved in a failed New York City real estate project are pointing fingers at their respective lawyers, blaming a $70 million loan default on…
The basis for the financial crisis is still being analyzed, but a former commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service suggests tax and corporate lawyers may have been partly to blame.
Following the lead of at least six other New York-based international law firms in less than two years, Sullivan & Cromwell has added to its attorney roster in Hong Kong.
The head of the Latin America practice group at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is taking a team of lawyers to Dewey & LeBoeuf, where he will serve in a…
As a new CEO takes the helm at the Association of Corporate Counsel this month, replacing retiring president Frederick J. Krebs, the trade group for in-house…
After pleading guilty in 2007 to an insider-trading conspiracy, a former associate at Thacher Proffitt & Wood lost a parallel civil case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
In what may be a record-breaking award to a single plaintiff in a sexual harassment case, a federal jury in East St. Louis, Ill., yesterday awarded $95 million to a…
Once upon a time, when bus benches and the yellow pages offered some of the only ways to promote a personal injury firm effectively, competitors tried to crowd each other…
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