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…
Legal recruiters in California are optimistic after a busy week of lateral movement by lawyers, while recruiters on the East Coast are more tempered in their enthusiasm.
When Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects arrive in New York for trial from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, David Raskin, at least figuratively, is…
A federal judge says she plans to order unspecified “limited” restrictions of an ex-associate’s badmouth blog criticizing the New Jersey law firm that formerly employed him.
A law firm that developed a training program for 15 potential partners got a strong message from the participants: They needed to meet regularly to create a collaborative “successor generation.”
One of the writers for Fox TV’s Family Guy is a New York University law grad who says she studied law because of family pressure rather than a passion for…
At least nine big law firms in Texas sent out job offer letters without specifying the salaries they would be paying their new associates. Some firms also declined to set…
About a third of the law students at Yale spent at least two years in other pursuits before beginning their law studies. Will those students find the job search more…
Less than a week ago, a German lawyer’s leap from Hengeler Mueller to the local offices of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy was being portrayed as a coup for his…
Lawyers contemplating coming out as gay to colleagues at their law firms don’t need to make any grand gestures or announcements, according to a gay lawyer writing in a British…
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