A New York law firm has filed a lawsuit alleging that the former chief of its finance practice engaged in a pattern of “disloyal and improper conduct” that included a “secretive spying and cyberstalking campaign” against two firm leaders before he left the firm to become a partner at Blank Rome.
A former Polsinelli partner who claims the law firm fired her after she complained about sexual harassment has filed a joint notice with the defendants stating that she is dismissing her federal lawsuit with prejudice.
A Texas lawyer accused of cyberstalking BigLaw attorneys must await trial in jail after a federal magistrate judge ruled last week that she violated the conditions of release.
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick has fined Alston & Bird $10,000 for violating his standing order that bars lawyers from researching potential jurors by looking at their LinkedIn pages.
A federal judge in Oregon is threatening sanctions against a corporate litigant and its BigLaw attorneys for “fake citations” that appear to be the product of generative artificial intelligence.
Updated: A male law student expelled from the Charleston School of Law in South Carolina alleges in a lawsuit that the school had a “double standard rooted in gender bias” in handling dueling harassment complaints.
A former Duane Morris tax partner is accused in a criminal complaint of murdering his wife in his Chicago condo building by throwing her over a railing from a 24th floor stairwell.
A former Duane Morris partner whose wife was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell in his Chicago condo building was sentenced to 93 days in jail and two years of probation Monday in a case stemming from domestic abuse in two prior incidents at her Michigan home.
Williams & Connolly has confirmed that hackers accessed “a small number” of its attorney emails but said there is no evidence of further access to its information technology system.
A former partner at two international law firms was suspended last month for inflating client bills by $3.4 million over the course of more than 20 years.
