White-shoe law firms Heller Ehrman and Thelen dissolve, leaving hundreds of lawyers to fend for themselves in an extremely competitive legal market. White & Case lays off 70 associates; Cadwalader,…
A laid-off New York investment banker’s long struggle to find another job in a horrendous economy may offer some lessons for lawyers in a similar predicament.
A group of trademark, copyright and unfair competition lawyers from the imploding Dreier law firm is leaving for New York’s Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky.
Al Meyerhoff, a labor lawyer who lead a landmark class-action lawsuit against American clothiers operating sweatshops on the island of Saipan has died of complications from cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical…
Put your best professional foot forward by wearing a skirt and stilettos, not pantsuits, a renowned London-based international law firm reportedly is telling its women lawyers and other female staffers.
Latina Alston freely admits that she has made some mistakes in life, and, at not quite 30 years old, she is raising three children although she has never been married.
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey would get a 43 percent pay raise totaling more than $60,000 over the next four years under a proposal being considered by the city council.
At first glance, Dechert’s year-end bonuses for associates appear to mirror the market rate, starting at $17,500 for 2007 associates who bill at least 1,950 hours and topping out at…
Corporate midcareer women are in big trouble, and that includes female attorneys, says a career and life coach who specializes in women’s empowerment issues.
Updated: Thacher Proffitt & Wood, rumored to be on the brink of dissolution, has suffered a debilitating blow with the loss of about 100 of its lawyers to Sonnenschein Nath…
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