A federal judge in Manhattan says a managing partner’s remark that a female lawyer wasn’t sweet enough could be construed as discriminatory animus supporting the woman’s bias and retaliation suit.
Large New York law firms froze pay for midlevel associates this year, while big firms in several other cities matched New York paychecks by giving their midlevels raises of about…
Many law firms in Philadelphia missed out on much of the business boom that benefited their New York City competitors in recent years. Now, however, they are also sidestepping the…
When Michael Skrzypek began working at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, he knew so little about computers that a supervisor once had to tell him he was trying to put a…
When Ryan Shores finished up his U.S. Supreme Court clerkship for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the law firm he went to work for was Richmond,…
Only about 8 percent of midlevel associates surveyed by the American Lawyer expect to move to in-house positions in the next five years, while 43 percent expect to stay with…
Joining a small but growing number of well-known law firms that are abandoning a traditional attorney compensation system, Howrey says it is eliminating lockstep pay for its associates.
The managing partner of Hunton & Williams says the law firm’s recent acquisition of nine Akin Gump lawyers is consistent with his vision for expansion.
A partner at Akerman Senterfitt in Miami died during a Colorado vacation when he tried to rescue his wife after she slipped on wet rock and fell into a river.
The salaries of Massachusetts district attorneys are set at nearly $149,000 a year by the state legislature, but the salaries of their underlings vary.
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