Things weren’t so bad last year in BigLaw, new financial numbers reveal. Head count at the nation’s top 100 firms dropped by 1,219 lawyers last year, just a 1 percent…
A civil lawyer in Texas who became a part of history when he sought to protect the rights of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before Oswald,…
As a successful New York attorney, it was the rule, rather than the exception, for her to work both Saturday and Sunday every week, writes an attorney identified only as…
The former chief of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt of Congress for withholding information from a U.S.…
A well-known graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School is donating $1 million to the two schools, part of which will fund public-interest jobs for 10 law school alumni.
Howrey’s profits suffered after it capped billable work for new associates at 700 hours and lowered their billing rates, but that hasn’t stopped other law firms from expressing an interest…
A South Florida judge accused of failing to disclose a close relationship with a prosecutor who was trying a first-degree murder case in her courtroom has resigned her seat on…
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