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…
Jasbina Ahluwalia isn’t practicing law anymore. But her legal skills are key to her new career—as a matchmaker for fellow professionals of South Asian descent.
A California trial lawyer slain outside his Los Angeles home last month was involved in several contentious cases, spurring detectives to look for a link between an unhappy litigant and…
When President Barack Obama was searching for a new U.S. Supreme Court justice, he made clear that he was looking for someone with real-world experience.
The stunning news that a former White House lawyer and Xerox Corp. general counsel had been charged with attempting to murder his wife this week in an alleged out-of-control rage…
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