A Sidley Austin partner who earned $3.5 million in his final year at the law firm is facing a possible one-year suspension for faking more than $69,000 in cab expenses.
Akerman Senterfitt has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a suit by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. claiming negligence in the law firm’s representation of a failed Florida bank.
Losing their BigLaw jobs five years ago during a mass layoff in the midst of the Great Recession turned out to be beneficial for two former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher…
Updated: A former project lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton claims in a lawsuit that the firm discriminated against him when it fired him in August 2012.
A former antitrust partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Hunton & Williams has been charged with bilking the law firms and a client out of $5.75 million by creating…
Former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner John Altorelli has moved on to DLA Piper, where he is co-chair of its U.S. finance practice. But that move hasn’t ended his financial…
There’s been plenty of talk about law firm mergers this year, from the continuing saga of the Dewey & Leboeuf collapse to the hopeful new combinations of Squire Sanders…
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