Two New York attorneys who reportedly have been practicing as partners of well-known law firms and a Long Island personal injury lawyer have been charged in state court with failing…
Updated: Robert Morgenthau may be retiring from his 35-year career as Manhattan district attorney, but that doesn’t mean he is giving up legal practice.
California law firms that have been successful in recruiting women, minorities and gays share their secrets in a study commissioned by the law firm Fenwick & West.
After news of an avalanche of online applications for federal judicial clerkships, it occurred to one reporter to wonder how judges and their staffs were finding time to look at…
Updated: A senior Pennsylvania judge has been criminally charged with misdemeanor assault and summary harassment after a claimed alcohol-fueled domestic incident Saturday in which he allegedly choked his wife. It…
A lawyer who inflated his law school grades to get a summer associate position at Sidley Austin got something of a reprieve from an Illinois ethics review board.
Updated: As part of an upcoming program at the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting later this month, an all-male panel was initially organized to offer “specific skill-building advice”…
In a new cost-cutting move, Seyfarth Shaw announced in an internal memo yesterday that the law firm is laying off approximately 20 attorneys and 20 staff members nationwide.
Labor and employment partner Richard Hafets worked at DLA Piper for 34 years, but he has some gripes about the firm that is spurring him to jump to Jackson Lewis…
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