For the second time in three months, the Georgia Supreme Court has nixed a former Greenberg Traurig associate’s effort to agree to a voluntary suspension of his law license concerning…
A willingness to be flexible about hourly billing rates and an eat-what-you-kill compensation structure has proven profitable for former BigLaw attorneys now practicing in the “Philadelphia” office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka.
Tax law partner Andrew Friedman quit Covington & Burling two years ago after spending 28 years at the law firm, but he isn’t hurting financially in his new occupation.
The economy is showing some signs of recovery—including a gain of 300 legal-sector jobs in May, versus the loss of hundreds the previous month, according to the latest Jun 5, 2010 12:35 AM CDT
A major New Jersey-based law firm is looking to a global women’s networking group with a memorable name to help the firm’s seasoned female attorneys expand their professional contacts and…
Perkins Coie has opened a new office in San Diego with four lawyers, in the first step of a planned expansion of both its California presence and its intellectual property…
McDermott Will & Emery’s telecommunications practice chair is leaving with three other partners for Fish & Richardson’s regulatory and government affairs group in Washington, D.C.
A former patent litigation partner of Kirkland & Ellis has purchased 4,500 patents and is establishing a new law firm that will sue to enforce both his own patents and…
Formerly a tenured law professor at the University of Chicago, Elena Kagan wanted to return to teach there in 1999 after a stint at the White House with President Bill…
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