Last week, we reported that Morgan Lewis & Bockius invited their laid-off associates to the firm’s holiday party as alumni. The firm’s actions prompted law blog Dec 16, 2009 11:24 PM CST
Joining a number of other well-known law firms that have announced plans to eliminate so-called lockstep pay, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr announced today that it will be moving…
Apparently implementing a strategic initiative announced earlier this year, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has announced a new three-tiered associate compensation plan.
Billed as offering flexibility to all associates and a…
New associates headed for Cravath, Swaine & Moore this year were offered a sweet deferral deal: Take the year off in exchange for $80,000 along with benefits and student loan…
The Georgia Supreme Court has adopted new rules that help out-of-state lawyers who volunteer for state offices and nonprofits get valuable courtroom experience.
A Los Angeles lawyer has pleaded guilty and agreed to accept up to a five-year prison term in a tax shelter scheme that involved a $35 million offshore account.
Although most senior lawyers at the now-defunct Heller Ehrman firm apparently have yet to agree to a payout to the bankrupt law firm’s creditors, a group of 62 primarily junior…
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