In a move that is sending shudders through the global BigLaw community, Rio Tinto has hired a team of Indian attorneys in an effort to cut by 20 percent its…
A Bronx trial judge used a divorce case as an opportunity to warn law firms that they ought to be more careful when sending inexperienced lawyers to do pro bono…
Law firms more and more are promoting that they offer alternative fee options for clients—something different from the traditional billable-hour model.
Now the mid-Atlantic firm Saul Ewing has stepped it…
Finding that United States and Nicaraguan counsel for plaintiff banana workers participated in a fraud on a California court, Judge Victoria Chaney today ordered that all defendants be reimbursed for…
Led by a former co-chair of Bingham McCutchen’s banking and leveraged finance practice group, an 11-lawyer contingent is joining the Boston office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius.
In a move sure to raise the eyebrows of professional attire traditionalists, a law firm in New Zealand is taking business casual to a new level in a bid to…
Moscow authorities raided the Moscow offices of DLA Piper and White & Case yesterday, reportedly as part of a criminal fraud investigation into the redevelopment of the Moscow Hotel.
Greg Bachand is 60 years old and a first-year associate. But that’s not the only unusual aspect of his new job situation: He’s working in his 35-year-old daughter’s Connecticut law…
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