The former chief of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt of Congress for withholding information from a U.S.…
On the eve of trial, a judge dismissed a False Claims Act case against a onetime general counsel of Tenet Health Care Corp., finding that the government waited too long…
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison essentially planted its flag in a new practice area with the announcement Friday that it is bringing in as a partner a prominent federal…
After she began having children in 1992, Amy Beckett wanted to stay at home to take care of them and, fortunately, her husband earned enough that she was able to…
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…
Two court decisions on Friday tried to sort out the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s January campaign finance ruling in Citizens United v. Federal…
An ex-associate who said her use of her dominant hand was impaired after it was burned during a Reed Smith trial training program is back in the litigation ballgame against…
After a year of unprecedented BigLaw cost-cutting and a new emphasis on delivering value to corporate clients in the aftermath of a global economic crisis, annual revenue reports for 2009…
Little known in BigLaw circles, a 16-attorney South Florida law firm has hired the managing partner of Greenberg Traurig’s office in Washington, D.C., to open its new…
It began with an administrative law judge’s request for a disabled parking space near the building where he works for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington,…
After being sanctioned $20,000 in another jurisdiction over her “wild accusations” in a case that challenged the nation’s president’s authority to govern, attorney Orly…
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