Back in March, when the economy looked particularly bleak, Katten Muchin Rosenman decided to defer the start date for its incoming class of first-year associates until February 2010.
When Amazon eliminated a George Orwell book from users’ Kindles earlier this year, after discovering the electronic text had been sold without proper authorization, it also eliminated Justin Gawronski’s homework.
At first glance, this year’s third quarter seemed to be an improvement for law firm mergers. Thirteen law firm combinations were announced, up from seven deals in the second quarter.
Her former career selling Mary Kay cosmetics and driving the pink Cadillac that is awarded for doing so successfully helped launch her law practice, a Florida lawyer says.
A New York Times story suggested in 2003 that there is an opt-out revolution in the making. The newspaper profiled a group of high-achieving Princeton women…
An Indiana law firm accused of refusing to rehire a staff lawyer who served in Iraq has agreed to pay $40,000 to resolve a suit filed by the Justice Department.
A former chief financial officer of Broadcom Corp. says he expected his 2006 conversations with Irell & Manella about stock options grants to be confidential, because the law firm was…
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