Is an employer liable if a worker gets infected with Ebola on a business trip? Can companies restrict employee travel to Africa, or can they require it? Does a company…
Bingham McCutchen managing partner Steven Browne isn’t commenting on the firm’s possible merger with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, but he does acknowledge his firm is exploring a variety of…
Faced with a post-recession legal market that has been characterized by reduced demand for services and pressure by corporate clients to cut costs, some reconfiguring law firms are seeing significant…
After working for years alongside lawyers for Kirkland & Ellis representing BP in litigation over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, two Covington & Burling attorneys are making a lateral…
A former senior partner at Holland & Knight claims in a lawsuit that the law firm owes him $1.5 million because it underpaid him for his work after attempting to…
Coveted starting salaries of $160,000 for associates were prevalent at large law firms in 2009, when nearly two-thirds of BigLaw starting salaries were at that level.
A Silicon Valley powerhouse has opened a second Delaware office in Wilmington, with an ex-chief of what many consider the nation’s top business court at the helm.
The assertion is getting a lot of pushback: Want to save the world? Then go into BigLaw, make a lot of money and donate 25 percent to charity. It’s the…
The world’s top 100 law firms had collective revenues of $88.7 billion last year, an increase of 4.3 percent since 2012 and an increase of 11 percent since 2008 when…
Out of the 67 U.S. Supreme Court cases decided during the term that ended in June, 33 were argued by the same five law firms, Law.com (sub. req.) reports.
Updated:Two dozen or more key partners at Bingham McCutchen will have to be on board with a merger before Morgan, Lewis & Bockius will agree to proceed with the deal,…
A well-known Philadelphia-based law firm is conflicted out of representing the son of a Russian parliament member in a criminal hacking case, a federal judge in Seattle ruled Friday.
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