While some legal news services and blogs remain transfixed by the never-ending deluge of law firm layoffs (the 12-day tally of axings tops 3,000) others have…
A legal blog is characterizing layoffs at White & Case as a “trifecta” because the law firm has the highest number of lawyer layoffs, staff layoffs and total layoffs.
A partner at Patton Boggs with an expertise in white-collar criminal defense has been elected to head the players union for the National Football League.
Employment litigation, in general, is increasing, and laid-off lawyers certainly should be able to recognize a possible cause of action as quickly as most potential plaintiffs.
In a move that may not elicit much pity from lower-paid lawyers, Dewey & LeBoeuf has chopped the pay of 66 partners over the past 15 months, axing it by…
A state anti-SLAPP law does not protect Sheppard Mullin from a former client’s suit alleging the law firm should be tossed from litigation because of a conflict of interest, a…
The Senate has confirmed former WilmerHale partner David Ogden to be deputy attorney general, despite some controversy over his past representation of clients such as…
A spokeswoman for Dallas-based Winstead has confirmed that the law firm is canceling its summer associate program this year, but she offers few details.
A California appeals court ruling on the responsibilities of departing partners is causing headaches for partners at the dissolved law firm Heller Ehrman.
Reportedly under consideration for a top post at the U.S. Treasury Department, the chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell has apparently stepped away from the possible appointment.
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