In December 2011, Dewey & LeBoeuf chair Steven Davis used a calm, matter-of-fact tone in a phone interview about his firm's uncharacteristically aggressive streak of lateral partner hiring during the…
A trio of white-collar litigation partners, headed by a former top lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice, has exited Morgan Lewis & Bockius for McGuireWoods.
With the Super Bowl only days away, the National Football League has tapped Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison to lead the “Deflategate” probe of the New England Patriots.
Leaders of Dentons and Chinese law firm Dacheng commemorated the joining of their two law firms—producing the world’s largest law firm by head count—in a signing ceremony this week.
Four intellectual property partners, headed by the former managing partner of Bracewell & Giuliani’s office in Austin, Texas, have exited for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
Polsinelli chairman Russell Welsh is expressing concern that Littler Mendelson will create a shortage of technology talent in Kansas City, Missouri, when it moves back-office functions to the city.
An error by a paralegal at Mayer Brown went undiscovered by higher-ups at the law firm as well as by lawyers at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, erasing JPMorgan Chase Bank’s…
Though women lawyers are outnumbered by males in partnerships at large law firms, they made strides at several law firms in Washington, D.C., in recent promotions.
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