Long known as a top defense firm for insurance-coverage matters, including the defense of attorneys in legal malpractice claims, Chicago-based Hinshaw & Culbertson in more recent years has branded itself…
Expanding a parental leave program for associates and senior attorneys that was already generous, compared to other Chicago-based BigLaw firms, Winston & Strawn will now provide up to 20 weeks…
A new survey of law firm leaders reveals that partners at a majority of the firms don’t have enough work, and demand for legal services is lagging behind pre-recession levels.
Questions about law firms on a recent Jeopardy show brought in big bucks in the Double Jeopardy round of the television game program, for those who could correctly answer them.
DLA Piper is laying off up to 200 support staffers in the United Kingdom and is moving most of the positions to a Warsaw back-office operations center.
A Southern California law firm has sued four former partners, contending that they spent nearly 18 months planning to launch a competing worker’s compensation practice before Adelson, Testan, Brundo, Novell…
Terms of a settlement reached earlier this year between Chadbourne & Parke and victims of R. Allen Stanford’s $7 billion Ponzi scheme have been revealed.
Financially struggling Slater & Gordon, the world’s first publicly traded law firm, has boosted its chances of survival by making a deal with lenders to extend some $640 million in…
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