A crusading prosecutor who has accused Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of trying to sell the Senate seat held by Barack Obama is one of the more high-profile lawyers on a…
A first-year volunteer stint, working to found an after-school tutoring program for students at a nearby public school, nearly resulted in Earl Martin Phalen’s quitting Harvard Law School.
As employers increasingly allow employees to telecommute, legal issues arise about whether to monitor electronically their at-home work and, if so, to what degree.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board probably expected some flak when it announced in June its intent to broaden required disclosures on the potential costs of corporate litigation.
Most on the in-house lawyers at large companies responding to an informal survey say they expect to cut back on the number of outside law firms they use over the…
As law firm layoffs become relatively commonplace news, it isn’t just attorneys in private practice who are nervously wondering where the ax might fall next. In-house lawyers are at risk…
For years, it has been the accepted wisdom that major corporations want to use fewer law firms in order to control legal costs, and many BigLaw firms have taken that…
When attorney Mark Peroff moved to the Manhattan office of Hiscock & Barclay, a 200-lawyer firm headquartered in upstate New York, he persuaded clients to follow him by offering a…
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