Lisa A. Alfaro joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1995 after receiving her JD from Stanford Law School. Now she is partner in charge of the firm’s São Paulo office…
A Texas criminal defense attorney has been arrested and criminally charged, along with two other defendants including his wife, for allegedly defrauding clients of nearly $1.5 million by persuading them,…
The New Jersey Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in the ethics case of an employment lawyer whose website displayed a certification seal though he wasn’t certified.
An attorney licensed in New York who served as general counsel for the Florida law firm formerly run by now-convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein is facing a $37.8 million clawback…
A longtime partner of Willkie Farr & Gallagher will be leading a group of up to 20 lawyers in-house to the firm’s biggest client in January, where he will serve…
Median starting pay of $160,000 for first-year associates in large New York law firms may sound impressive, but new lawyers in more than 40 other cities get more bang for…
Attorney David J. Grund only met with David Newton for an hour or two. And, Grund said, he told Newton not to give him any confidential information, because he wouldn’t…
At all stages of a company’s life cycle, leadership continually asks the classic “Make or Buy” question. When should a company hire and develop expertise internally, and when does it…
ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III kicked off the National Pro Bono Summit on Monday with an address expressing support for an independent judiciary and legal profession.
Both sides are claiming victory after an Arizona judge ordered Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart to open its billing records in a dispute with Maricopa County.
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