Many of the same qualities that help lawyers succeed in practice, such as aggression, critical thinking and a willingness to take on a challenging workload, can be negatives in personal…
A humor columnist notes that law firms are reluctant to admit they are suffering from the economic downturn. As a result, they use a number of strategies to lay off…
Updated: A lawyer who attended the University of Chicago Law School has been accused in an ethics complaint of lying about his grades when he applied for a summer position…
A Calgary attorney says he is entitled to $30 million from Merchant Law Group and the Canadian government for his work on one of the country’s biggest personal injury cases.
A recent law grad working on a massive diet drug case got a $3 million bonus and a Porsche when the civil fen-phen litigation settled for $200 million in 2001.
The skills that helped many young attorneys become law firm associates are not necessarily the skills that will help succeed once they get there. Meeting billable hours quotas and turning…
A well-publicized mass e-mail by a fired associate at Paul Hastings is raising questions about the proper way for law firms to handle news of lawyer dismissals and other negative…
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