110 ABA Journal Contract Attorneys articles.
Squire Sanders & Dempsey has laid off additional staffers, possibly in a move to become a more attractive potential merger partner.
Squire Sanders’ Miami office laid off “a couple runners,…
Jan 21, 2009 2:58 PM CST
Contract lawyers hired to do document review for law firms are feeling the pinch of a bad economy.
Fewer contract jobs are available, and law firms are pressuring placement agencies…
Jan 12, 2009 2:41 PM CST
A tale of woe from the basement of legal practice
Dec 2, 2008 1:40 AM CST
Washington, D.C., law firms aren’t immune from the economic downturn, and they’re taking steps to keep and bring in more business.
Howrey is one of them, the Oct 20, 2008 1:39 PM CDT
Although a vote won’t be taken until today, the struggling Heller Ehrman has no choice but to dissolve, the…
Sep 25, 2008 11:58 PM CDT
A Howrey lawyer who headed an internal investigation of backdating at McAfee partly pinned the blame on contract lawyers when he told a judge yesterday why five corporate e-mails weren’t…
Sep 19, 2008 11:08 AM CDT
A lawyer-entrepreneur is joining with 14 other lawyers to start a new legal venture called Virtual Law Partners.
The firm will employ lawyers who work at home, saving on overhead…
Jul 16, 2008 1:19 PM CDT
For a number of lawyers who want a better balance between their work lives and their personal lives or a more flexible schedule, being a contract attorney can be the…
May 5, 2008 3:19 PM CDT
Nearly two dozen school districts on Long Island improperly reported private attorneys as employees, helping them earn public pensions totaling more than $342,082 a year, Newsday reported today.
…Mar 28, 2008 8:11 PM CDT
A former staff attorney at Covington & Burling’s office in Washington, D.C., contends that the law firm is improving its diversity profile by hiring black lawyers for low-level “ghetto” positions.
…Mar 18, 2008 5:30 PM CDT
A Canadian law firm says it has never has a problem with associates over billable hours requirements. That’s because it has no associates.
Instead, Thackray Burgess has “consultants” who hire…
Mar 10, 2008 3:14 PM CDT
Some say they couldn’t find law firm jobs. Others say they didn’t want to.
But the bottom line for a small fraction of the nation’s newly minted law school graduates…
Feb 4, 2008 8:25 PM CST
Another major law firm is planning to institute a two-tiered system for associate attorneys. But it is taking a different approach from what some other avant-garde law shops are doing.
…Nov 1, 2007 6:35 PM CDT
Bingham McCutchen is paying buyouts to several associates at its San Francisco office,reportedly in response to a slowdown in commercial litigation.
Four associates left the firm and three others transferred…
Jun 6, 2007 12:32 PM CDT
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