Clients may like the new apprenticeship programs being tried by a few law firms, but associates taking a pay cut to participate may not be as enthusiastic.
In a stark contrast with what was considered normal in former years, elite law students working at well-known law firms this summer can’t expect that offers of permanent employment will…
A frustrated Washington, D.C., lawyer may not be driving a pink Cadillac, but she is pocketing an extra $400 to $500 a month selling Mary Kay cosmetics.
Pittsburgh-based Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott has hired 38 lateral lawyers this year, bringing on five labor lawyers from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in its latest acquisition.
As part of a $122 million renovation and security-enhancement project launched in 2003 at the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the public will someday no longer be allowed to enter…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer who apparently killed himself after reportedly being laid off is being described as a brilliant practitioner who may have struggled…
A lawyer who reportedly was laid off earlier this week at Kilpatrick Stockton apparently committed suicide this morning at the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius is adding two health care partners and five associates from the Washington, D.C., office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to its attorney roster. They include Scott…
It probably isn’t the kind of advertising that DLA Piper would have sought out. But at least one Washington, D.C., cabdriver is prominently displaying the law firm’s name on the…
Sued last month by a former staff attorney who claimed Covington & Burling maintained its staff attorney ranks as a ghetto for minority attorneys, the law firm didn’t hesitate to…
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