A federal judge has dismissed a suit by an associate who claims he was fired from his personal injury law firm for refusing to participate in an unethical referral scheme.
Federal prosecutors are trying to recover $285,000 lost by an Orlando law firm that fell victim to a scam by forwarding funds to a “client” before the settlement check cleared.
The percentage of lawyers working part-time at law firms declined slightly in 2011, the first drop since the National Association for Law Placement began compiling the figures in 1994.
The law firm Jacoby & Meyers is attacking the “blunderbuss of procedural arguments” raised by defendants seeking to uphold a ban on outside ownership of law firms in New York…
Alabama death-row inmate Cory Maples isn’t barred from appealing his conviction because of a blown appeals deadline caused by the departure of his BigLaw pro bono lawyers.
Left homeless after Hurricane Katrina hit his place in Gulfport, Miss., a 53-year-old man who has been traveling the country in a covered wagon headed west in protest of U.S.…
The former executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union sees no reason to retire. At the age of 68, he has joined with his wife and two other…
A law firm created in 2010 by two former lawyers from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has quadrupled its client billings with an emphasis on alternative fees.
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