Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance is losing partners and cutting associates as it grapples with the decline of the pound and disputes over lockstep pay.
A disbarred New York lawyer who lived just a few doors down from Bill and Hillary Clinton was sentenced today to 25 years for fatally shooting his wife.
A Manhattan judge has refused to allow two law firms to withdraw from defending the former general counsel of Oppenheimer & Co. in a sex harassment case.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled today that lawyers can disapprove of a client’s real estate contract for any reason within the three-day attorney review period.
A former prosecutor in Suffolk County, N.Y., has lost a bid to reopen discovery in a ruling that says she can’t take advantage of the allowances usually given a pro…
When a 44-year-old real estate lawyer and businessman was found murdered last month in a Long Island, N.Y., parking lot, a friend said he believed the killing…
Partners at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, Wall Street’s fifth most-profitable firm, may vote to remove managing partner and former chairman Robert Link from the management committee at a meeting this…
The 125 or so lawyers that Nixon Peabody has recently agreed to add to its attorney roster from Thelen and Taylor Wessing are just the beginning of a much bigger…
A New York lawyer accused of defaming a Long Island law firm during his defense of its embezzling bookkeeper has been ordered to pay a $14,000 sanction for an unusual…
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