Greg Bachand is 60 years old and a first-year associate. But that’s not the only unusual aspect of his new job situation: He’s working in his 35-year-old daughter’s Connecticut law…
The job market is grim right now for laid-off BigLaw attorneys and others seeking work, some 200 participants at a New York City Bar Association workshop sponsored by Vault were…
Donald Remy has withdrawn his nomination to be Army general counsel after some Republican senators questioned why he left his employment at Fannie Mae off a document detailing his work…
In another signpost of the sea change that seems to be occurring in the legal profession, a major United Kingdom newspaper is predicting that more than 10,000 lawyers there could…
When one of London’s most elite law partnerships recently decided it had to let 14 solicitor trainees go instead of giving them permanent jobs, partners at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer had…
Lawyer-turned-investigative journalist Gerald Posner says he always wanted to be a lawyer, but life as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore soured him on BigLaw.
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