After laying off hundreds of employees in the last few months, a law firm and related company known for their mortgage foreclosure work on behalf of lenders are now themselves…
A reported plan, by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, to cut the pay of its associates and counsel, going forward, by 20 percent, if they get more than 10 days behind…
At those firms lucky enough to partake in office celebrations this holiday season, employees should be extra vigilant against “alcohol-induced stupidity,” warns one law firm partner.
A long line began forming at 3 a.m. today outside the Orlando offices of a Florida personal injury firm that has promised to give away 1,000 free Thanksgiving turkeys today,…
News last week that some male employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers had participated in an e-mail “top 10” ratings scheme concerning the attractiveness of new female hires in the accounting firm’s Dublin…
Some workers whose complaints aren’t resolved by the U.S. Labor Department will be told of another option: Find a private lawyer through an ABA-approved lawyer referral program.
Rejecting a disciplinary panel’s recommendation that the case against a longtime West Virginia lawyer be dismissed, the state supreme court has suspended the law license of Douglas…
Seeking to defend itself aggressively in a hard-fought age discrimination suit brought by a former $88,000-a-year paralegal in its Washington, D.C., office, Mayer Brown is seeking to discover portions of…
An Oregon district attorney who has been on paid leave for months since an employee in his office reported him for a claimed sex crime to Pendleton police is now…
Updated: An African-American legal secretary laid off by Jones Day after nearly 18 years on the job claims in a lawsuit that the firm Nov 9, 2010 11:30 AM CST
A Michigan prosecutor who attacked a student leader in a blog, calling him a “radical homosexual” and worse, and sought to get him fired from his job, has now himself…
The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against a company that fired a union worker who made negative comments about her supervisor on Facebook.
A former associate at Clifford Chance in New York hesitated to sue the firm. But after being unemployed for several years after she and five other U.S. associates of the…
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