All seven new partners at well-known West Coast firm are women

One of the top corporate law firms in Portland, Ore., has just elevated seven associates to its partnership, and all of them are women.

They are employment practitioners Mia Butzbaugh…

Jan 21, 2014 11:55 PM CST

Federal judge OKs fired ex-associate’s breach-of-contract suit against law firm

A fired associate attorney has no grounds for a wrongful termination suit, her former law firm argued, because she was an employee at will.

However, a federal judge did not…

Jan 8, 2014 11:10 PM CST

Plaintiff ‘titan’ files civil racketeering class action against rival PI lawyer in BP oil spill case

Both Danny Becnel and Mikal Watts are personal injury titans representing plaintiff fishermen in litigation against BP over the 2009 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

But now the two top personal…

Jan 8, 2014 10:30 PM CST

Buchanan Ingersoll is talking about a possible merger with Fowler White

Two well-known regional law firms are talking about a possible merger that would create a combination with 550 lawyers.

The chair of Florida’s Fowler White Boggs confirmed to the Jan 8, 2014 8:15 PM CST

Name partner bolts from Chicago law firm along with 28 other attorneys

A name partner of Chicago-based Bates Carey Nicolaides has exited the firm along with 28 of its attorneys.

Richard Nicolaides and his group will now be known as Nicolaides Fink…

Jan 7, 2014 8:00 PM CST

5 lawyers from well-known Calif. firm form new boutique

Five lawyers have left a well-known Sacramento, Calif., law firm to establish a new legal shop focusing on health care and employment matters.

Exiting Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt,…

Jan 7, 2014 4:52 PM CST

Founder leaves 120-lawyer firm due to disagreement about its future direction

A co-founder is leaving a 120-attorney Texas law firm after 28 years, due to a disagreement about its future direction.

In a Tuesday internal memorandum, partner Donald Looper, who headed…

Jan 2, 2014 4:55 PM CST

Lawyer fined for telling friend that client ‘Harry Potter’ author wrote new novel under pseudonym

A British lawyer has been rebuked and fined £1,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for violating client confidentiality by revealing to his wife’s best friend that the author of the…

Dec 31, 2013 5:40 PM CST

How an ordinary attorney got hired as general counsel to Marlon Brando

When David Seeley was working as a deputy prosecutor for Clark County, Wash., he happened to handle a number of cases against the son of a woman…

Dec 30, 2013 9:19 PM CST

Law firm sues Florida Bar over rules restricting what legal websites and blog posts can say

A law firm has sued the Florida Bar and several of its officials, claiming that its legal ethics rules restricting law firm website content and what can be said in…

Dec 13, 2013 9:00 PM CST

Big-bucks bonuses for Boies associates top out at $300K; average is $85K

It may not be the long-established BigLaw firms that are handing out the biggest bucks to associates in the form of year-end bonuses this year.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, known…

Dec 11, 2013 7:00 PM CST

Leader exits Kaye Scholer’s LA office; at least 4 other partners left last month

A Kaye Scholer lawyer who served as co-managing partner of the firm’s two offices in California left this week for the Los Angeles office of Jenner & Block.

The departure…

Dec 4, 2013 4:45 PM CST

Midsize firm closes satellite office, sees attorney roster dip

The attorney roster has shrunk at one of the biggest law firms in Sacramento, Calif., and it has closed one of its four satellite offices. However, Downey…

Dec 3, 2013 5:50 PM CST

Law firm to pay nearly $1M to receiver to settle claim it helped client conceal assets

Add another law firm to the list of those that have helped fund a receivership winding up the business affairs of disbarred attorney Arthur Nadel.

Without admitting liability, Florida’s Band…

Nov 27, 2013 6:05 PM CST

Managing partner of White & Williams, 59, died in sleep at vacation home over weekend

When he took the helm at White & Williams in 2010, managing partner Guy Cellucci stepped in for an older partner who was required under the Philadelphia-based law firm’s partnership…

Nov 20, 2013 9:05 PM CST