The American Bar Association has selected Jack L. Rives as its new executive director, effective May 1, ABA President Carolyn B. Lamm announced today in a press release.
Members of the lower upper class—professionals who are living better than 99 percent of other Americans due to education, hard work and good luck—are beginning to revolt against those who…
While he was a student at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., Brent Foster didn’t hesitate to take an aggressive stance when the institution—which is well-known for its…
Two Vanderbilt law students have created a new website where they hope to publish better job and salary information for all ABA-accredited law schools.
Professional women with advanced degrees in medicine, law and business will earn on average $2 million less in their lifetimes than men in their same graduating classes.
The economy seems to be on the upswing again for a number of women associates who were promoted to partner this year at major law firms: More than one-third of…
The former general counsel for Gucci doesn’t think he deserved to be fired for working at the company while on inactive status, and he explains why in an affidavit filed…
President Obama’s first White House counsel, Gregory Craig, is advising Goldman Sachs as it fights a civil fraud suit filed Friday by the Securities and…
A federal judge in New Jersey is giving a former lawyer for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom a chance to prove that it was her idea to use thalidomide…
A Washington, D.C.-area lawyer made his first appearance before Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Friday, but it wasn’t in a U.S. Supreme Court case.
With characteristic modesty, it appears, Justice John Paul Stevens opted to announce earlier this month his planned retirement at the conclusion of the current U.S. Supreme Court…
Sara Smith had been in practice only three years after earning her law degree from the University of Houston in 1988 before she decided to pursue a different career—the ministry.
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