Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft may have laid off 131 lawyers earlier this year, but it is still hiring some lawyers away from other law firms in practice areas such as…
As some law firms react to worldwide financial turmoil by calling meetings to tell partners and associates, essentially, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” many—including a number…
A Connecticut judge has refused to get tangled up in a woman’s suit claiming a switched tube of hair dye turned her blonde hair brown, wreaking havoc on her social…
A federal judge in Philadelphia blasted a lawyer for his “slip-shod submissions” to the court before slashing his requested attorney fees by about $154,000.
Two large law firms that were once merger candidates for Heller Ehrman have withdrawn proposals to take on large groups of the dissolving firm’s lawyers and leases on offices that…
Last week Harvard Law School joined Yale and Stanford’s law schools in adopting a no-letter-grades policy. Georgetown University Law Center has not jumped on the bandwagon at…
In a rare rebuke to the chief judge in Baltimore, a Maryland appellate court has found that he asked too many questions during a jury trial of an armed robbery…
Asked what one aspect of their law practice they would change, if they could, 31 percent of the 300 large law firm and corporate attorneys recently surveyed by Robert Half…
The Georgia Supreme Court has reprimanded and imposed a one-month suspension on a lawyer who said he ignored discovery requests in a 2006 case in part because he was dealing…
A new biography about Michelle Obama discusses in detail what she didn’t like about her job, early in her career, as an associate attorney at Sidley Austin.
Updated: Citigroup lawyers made a weekend trip to a judge’s home in Connecticut in an attempt to block a Wachovia buyout by Wells Fargo, but the judge had no authority…
Updated: A federal judge heard arguments Thursday on whether to dismiss the indictment or declare a mistrial in the prosecution of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
Two days after Big Bob Chicken Day and three days before Christmas 2003, the U.S. Department of Defense sent Axion Corp. owner Alex Latifi a frantic request. U.S. troops in…
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