Corrected: A critical mass of Howrey lawyers has reportedly indicated an interest in joining Winston & Strawn, bringing the deal to acquire many of Howrey’s remaining lawyers closer to completion.
Seven BigLaw refugees urge potential clients to “reject convention” and utilize the services of their new intellectual property boutique on Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson’s website.
Clark, Thomas & Winters will undergo major restructuring in the coming weeks, further fueling speculation that the oldest and formerly largest law firm in Austin, Texas may soon close.
Seemingly, the federal time Peter Elliott knew he was facing after pleading guilty to bank fraud for siphoning some $3.6 million from his attorney trust account might well have been…
Updated: A Southern California lawyer who formerly was a partner at Manatt Phelps & Phillips has been named as a defendant in a civil suit over allegedly abusive “intermediary transaction”…
Saying that they can do a better job for clients as a small intellectual property boutique than the BigLaw firms from whence they came, seven lawyers from DLA Piper and…
Criminally charged last week in the alleged poisoning of live oak trees near Auburn University that play an iconic role in the school’s football rivalry with the University of Alabama,…
Updated: As rescue operations continued in New Zealand today to try to extricate dozens of people apparently still trapped in collapsed buildings in the central business district of Christchurch, at…
Updated: Unlike three colleagues who worked on the fen-phen diet drug litigation, Stanley Chesley is still an active practitioner. But that could change, if attorney disciplinary authorities in Kentucky follow…
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