An increasing number of corporate law departments are hiring contract lawyers and sending them more projects, according to two principals with Pennsylvania legal staffing firms.
Gucci America’s mistaken belief that its former top lawyer had an active license to practice law isn’t enough to shield documents from discovery based on attorney-client privilege, a magistrate judge…
A London lawyer who headed the legal department at insurance giant Zurich UK Services claims in a lawsuit that bullying from an underling led to her mental breakdown and firing.
A New York lawyer serving as a corporate secretary for Sundance Resources was killed in a plane crash in Africa over the weekend, along with other executives, the mining magnate…
Seventy-three percent of in-house lawyers around the globe got bonuses last year, and a third of them were higher than the year before, according to a new survey.
A judge hearing an obstruction of justice case against a former partner of Arent Fox and two other men involved with him in a three-way romantic relationship has dismissed some…
Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf in the latter part of his life, when he composed his famous Ninth Symphony. So attorney Daniel Eidsmoe doesn’t see being color-blind as a significant…
A now-former general counsel of World Wrestling Entertainment and a law firm paralegal reportedly have suffered job repercussions over unrelated situations concerning, respectively, a party after a WrestleMania 26 event…
Two years ago, Cliff Lovette was doing legal work for Usher. Now the 54-year-old Atlanta entertainment attorney is practicing law out of his basement and collecting food stamps.
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