More than 2,500 partners jumped from one large law firm to another in the year ending Sept. 30, a number that doesn’t even include lawyers joining new firms as a…
Up to 120 associates and 150 support staffers in Linklaters’ London office are facing the prospect of lost jobs in a program reportedly dubbed Linklaters New World.
As news of new law firm layoffs and associate pay freezes seemingly breaks almost daily, worried third-year law students are anticipating rough landings into the post-graduate world of work.
While working as a fifth-year associate at a BigLaw firm in New York, Tracey Batt thought her black leather ankle boots, black leather trench coat and dark-colored “mannish” pantsuits with…
A mergers and acquisitions partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft describes a hectic four days working on pharmaceutical maker Pfizer’s $68 billion buyout of Wyeth.
A California lawyer has withdrawn as counsel in a class action after admitting in court papers that he lost most of the $2.7 million settlement in bad stock trades.
Most of the remaining lawyers in a New York intellectual property boutique that has been dwindling for the past two years are at least thinking about joining Locke Lord Bissell…
A Houston lawyer has taken a home equity loan to repay his law firm for $182,500 lost in a variation of what has become known as the Nigerian e-mail scam.
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