9131 ABA Journal Career & Practice articles.
Sekhon & Sekhon claimed a 95 percent success rate concerning more than 1,000 immigrants that the law firm helped to win political asylum in the United States.
But now up…
Nov 16, 2009 6:10 PM CST
Nov 16, 2009 4:30 PM CST
Reed Smith will give its nonequity partners a choice: Pony up a percentage of your salary or lose your partnership status.
The firm will likely ask for a contribution of…
Nov 16, 2009 1:50 PM CST
When a fire broke out in their Dallas home early yesterday, Romina Lorena Mulloy and Michael Levine rushed upstairs to save their 4-year-old son.
But the couple was trapped by…
Nov 13, 2009 11:12 PM CST
Recent charges by federal authorities that three current or former BigLaw attorneys illegally made securities trades—two of them allegedly using inside information gleaned from the law firms that employed them—have…
Nov 13, 2009 10:36 PM CST
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking those with information about a South Florida attorney described by a partner of his law firm as a “financial serial killer” to select…
Nov 13, 2009 8:03 PM CST
Jones Day demoted five partners to counsel in its London office during 2009.
The law firm has not commented about why the demotions were made, according to Nov 13, 2009 6:55 PM CST
The lead lawyer in what was supposed to have been a huge antitrust case against Intel has mixed feelings about the $1.25 billion settlement that will…
Nov 13, 2009 6:17 PM CST
Loyalty to a law firm is laudable—to a point, a consultant says.
Lawyers also need to consider loyalty to clients, their families and themselves, according to Frank D’Amore, founder of…
Nov 13, 2009 4:46 PM CST
A lawyer representing other lawyers in an ongoing probe of New York pensions being paid to attorneys who alleged did government legal work as private practitioners while being reported as…
Nov 13, 2009 12:56 AM CST
In an apparent death blow for Rothstein Rosenfeld Adler’s reported plan to reconfigure its law practice without co-founding partner and accused Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy…
Nov 12, 2009 10:49 PM CST
In the latest move in an ongoing growth strategy, Baker Hostetler has announced today the opening of a new office in Chicago.
The more than 600-attorney Ohio-based firm now lists…
Nov 12, 2009 6:11 PM CST
A columnist for the Sun-Sentinel says he had had heard “speculation and whispers” last year about Scott Rothstein, the South Florida lawyer Nov 12, 2009 4:47 PM CST
A former case manager for the Richmond, Va.-based Williams Mullen law firm has filed a sexual harassment and discrimination complaint that claims she was subjected to derogatory remarks and a…
Nov 12, 2009 3:30 PM CST
Law firms are shrinking in more ways than one.
Law firms are shedding employees, and their office spaces are getting smaller, causing a glut of space for rent. A report…
Nov 12, 2009 2:06 PM CST