Even students at the nation’s top law schools are getting fewer on-campus interviews, leading one career official to predict that more graduates will end up going solo or entering alternative…
Following a five-month trial, a New York jury is finally deliberating the criminal case against a son of socialite Brooke Astor and one of her attorneys. They are accused by…
Those looking for a little light entertainment might wish to tune in tonight to a new television program about the travails of a disgraced Illinois prosecutor’s wife forced to return…
For almost a decade, attorneys at Armstrong, Mitchell, Damiani and Zaccagnini in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County helped government and commercial clients persuade the county’s Board of Revision…
This summer, Working Mother magazine released its list of the 50 best law firms for women, without ranking the firms. Now the magazine has included four law firms on its…
In an unusual naming-of-names prior to any official determination of misconduct, the State Bar of California has publicly identified in a Sept. 18 press release 16 lawyers…
Although Deutsche Bank AG officials say otherwise, an internal report by a U.S.-based law firm suggests that the leader of the German bank and its legal department may have known…
Within 15 minutes of when Melissa Mahler was asked by a client company’s CEO to draft a letter of intent concerning a potential merger in 2004, the then-Nixon Peabody technology…
Having helped a double-amputee win the right to compete with able-bodied runners in track-and-field events on prosthetic legs, Dewey & LeBoeuf is now representing another South African athlete in a…
A high-school dropout with two children who went on to get her general educational development certificate, graduate from college and earn a juris doctor degree so that she could represent…
A 58-year-old South Carolina criminal defense attorney has been charged with solicitation of a felony for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill another attorney with whom he…
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