A lawyer who alleged that Major, Lindsey & Africa blackballed her for suing her former law firm has agreed to dismiss her lawsuit against the legal recruiter.
While an attorney’s duty to supervise a more junior lawyer or nonlawyers dates back several decades, artificial intelligence and remote work are creating new wrinkles involving the scope of that duty.
Despite reports of $225,000 starting salaries for BigLaw associates, most law firms are paying less, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
A former Ohio lawyer has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of his divorce client outside his Cleveland office in March 2013, a crime said to have been orchestrated because the attorney wanted to delay the client’s trial.
Litigation boutique law firm Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors will be raising salaries for first-year associates to $300,000 beginning Sept. 1, an increase of $50,000.
The attrition rate for associates in law firms was 20% in 2024, up from 18% in 2023 but still lower than the historic high of 26% in 2021, according to the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education.
Litigation boutique law firm Wilkinson Stekloff will pay special bonuses to associates ranging from $25,000 to $60,000, the firm recently told employees in a memo.
Associate Rachel Cohen may have been the first lawyer to resign from a law firm because she disagreed with its response to President Donald Trump’s punitive executive orders, but she isn’t the last.
A fired associate and Kirkland & Ellis plan to ask a court to toss the lawyer’s federal lawsuit against the law firm alleging gender bias and retaliation, according to an April 8 docket entry.
Updated: A second and third associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have left the law firm amid disagreements over its reaction to President Donald Trump’s punitive actions against disfavored firms.
Lateral hiring of law firm associates increased nearly 25% in 2024, far outpacing a much smaller increase of about 2% in lateral hiring of partners, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
An Irell & Manella associate who decided to alter a date on a schematic drawing to prove a point during a deposition should be sanctioned, along with a partner who missed an email revealing the plan, a special master has recommended.
Lawyers and legal experts are expressing concerns that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s recent request for comprehensive information about diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices at major law firms is not only invasive but also exceeds its authority.
On-campus interviewing by law firms has “firmly tumbled from its place of prominence” in the recruiting of summer associates, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
