A contract attorney doing document review was hired for his expertise and is not entitled to overtime pay, according to a lawyer for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan who defended…
More than half of the corporate law departments that responded to a recent survey said they have outsourced legal work, and over two-thirds said they were satisified or very satisfied…
The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar hasn’t received much in the way of a response to its latest proposed changes in the law school accreditation…
Lawyers in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County are being asked this week to make a “pro bono pledge” to commit to at least one pro bono case next year. In Los Angeles,…
Lawyers who offer prepaid deals through daily deal or group-coupon offers are treading on ethically precarious ground, according to an ABA ethics opinion.
A partner at Reed Smith in Pittsburgh apparently took umbrage at SCOTUSblog’s snarky response to his tweet about the Supreme Court’s decision Oct 21, 2013 1:05 PM CDT
A former law firm employee and her husband will be on probation for the next three years after taking a misdemeanor plea in a federal criminal case over unauthorized intrusion…
Matt Faustman, founder and CEO of legal services start up UpCounsel, talks to Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about his company’s recent fundraising and expansion of service into New York.
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