A rapidly expanding Kansas City-based law firm known for its litigation work is opening a new office, as of March 1, by acquiring a 25-attorney Chicago litigation boutique.
For those who hope earning a juris doctor degree will be a ticket to a high paid job as a BigLaw associate, a new National Law Journal survey points to…
A number of Wall Street banks are collaborating with BigLaw firms on a project that would potentially allow the legal industry to share information, anonymously, about cybersecurity threats they may…
The Oregon Supreme Court has found two Stoel Rives lawyers did not violate ethics rules when they represented a company and some of its employees in a securities fraud investigation.
The self-published author of an erotic novel will have to submit to a psychiatric examination in her suit claiming Allen & Overy used the book as a pretext to fire…
Police who entered a Washington, D.C., hotel room in search of a missing lawyer on Feb. 10 found his apparently lifeless body face down on the floor, with several stab…
The wife of a DLA Piper associate found fatally stabbed on Tuesday told Washington, D.C., police in a missing persons report that “everything seemed fine” when they last spoke on…
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved $178 million in professional fees for Detroit’s record-breaking Chapter 9 case, including $58 million to Jones Day.
As rich law firms lose ground to the super-rich law firms, their associates will feel the monetary pain, according to a columnist who is a former BigLaw partner.
For the second time in less than three years, a growing Mississippi-based law firm with national and international offices has expanded its footprint in Nashville, Tennessee.
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