Updated: Associates at several BigLaw firms will be getting year-end and special bonuses that total $21,000 to $140,000, the amount being paid by Milbank.
Updated: A Kansas attorney has received a six-month stayed suspension for making “inflammatory attacks” on an opposing counsel and including “irrelevant information” in a court filing intended to diminish his client’s estranged wife.
As we reflect on our journeys through the legal profession, one theme emerges: the power of mentorship, particularly female mentorship. The power of female mentorship cannot be overstated.
A work-around to the mandatory use of standardized testing for admissions to law school was approved as the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted allow law schools to accept students who do not take the Law School Admission Test or another standardized exam.
The White House counsel in the new Trump administration is a former BigLaw lawyer who worked as the Republican National Committee’s outside counsel for election integrity in the 2024 presidential campaign.
Theodore B. Olson, a conservative constitutional lawyer who argued the 2000 Florida vote-recount case that helped George W. Bush secure the presidency and later helped lead the case that overturned California’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage, has died. He was 84.
Updated: Recent Idaho public defender pay rate changes led to many counsel heading for the exits, and the Idaho State Bar issued a formal ethics opinion due to concerns. It recognizes financial hardships can cause conflicts in legal representation but notes that counsel cannot leave a case without the court’s approval.
Take-home pay is only slightly higher for some newly promoted nonequity partners because their law firms treat them as equity partners for tax purposes.
Updated: A judge in Cook County, Illinois, has granted a temporary restraining order that prevents a now-ousted partner at Duane Morris from retrieving the remains of his wife after her body was found in a stairwell in his South Loop residential building last month.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel announced plans Monday to merge with Herbert Smith Freehills, creating a “global legal powerhouse” law firm with more than $2 billion in combined revenue.
Law firm financials have improved for seven consecutive quarters, leading to a profitability score that is the second highest on record for the Law Firm Financial Index since its inception more than 15 years ago.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Friday ruled that, from now on, an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through, regardless of who’s at fault.
