The mood became tense at a February 2012 meeting when 17 top rainmakers at Dewey & LeBoeuf were told they needed to take a 50 percent pay cut. Particularly galling…
Google is going on a “fishing expedition” for “highly confidential” documents between Jenner & Block and its clients, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the law firm contends in…
Equating a bid by the Beastie Boys for reimbursement of a claimed $2.4 million in legal fees to a Cadillac Escalade, a federal judge in New York on Monday cut…
A former employee of Dewey & Leboeuf testified on Monday that he was ordered in 2011 to reclassify $1.4 million in disbursements to firm chairman Steven Davis, one of three…
The former controller of Dewey & LeBoeuf testified on Wednesday that he falsified accounting records to bolster the law firm’s income numbers in the years before its collapse.
Noting that a former practice group leader at Dewey & LeBoeuf was “not a naive or vulnerable consumer,” a U.K. judge on Tuesday said that he is bound by the…
After an announcement early this year that Littler Mendelson is consolidating administrative functions in one central office, the 1,000-attorney labor and employment powerhouse has been hiring in Kansas…
Corrected: The nation’s top 350 law firms increased lawyer head count by only .6 percent last year, though there was modest growth in the ranks of nonequity partners, of counsel…
A former U.S. senator and state attorney general has exited Bryan Cave—after a career there that dated back to the early 1960s—following friction over his court testimony for a friend’s…
Google is asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to enforce subpoenas seeking information on communications involving lobbyists at Jenner & Block and Mississippi’s attorney general.
Retired Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Jane Boisseau offered insight into the financial problems of the collapsed law firm and its impact on her in testimony Thursday in the fraud trial…
A federal appeals court has nixed a campaign by Apple Inc. to replace a monitor appointed by a federal judge to oversee the company’s compliance with her orders in e-book…
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