A company that fired its law firm, then accepted a $4 million settlement from the U.S. Department of Defense, can’t sue the firm on the ground the settlement should have…
Most of the 90 partners who left K&L Gates in the last seven months were nonequity partners who left after a process of “rational” performance reviews, according to law firm…
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaking to an oft-cheering audience on his home turf, exhorted lawyers to do more pro bono work and to help finance free legal services…
Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean may be on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but the two Dentons employees appeared united on Wednesday in their assessment of the future of…
Updated: As the world watches two megafirms create the biggest global legal shop, some observers are questioning how merger partners so different can have a successful marriage.
So far, the fallout from an alleged $5 million scheme by an attorney and her husband to defraud two law firms and a client includes a lost BigLaw partnership and…
Legal fees continue to add up for the Baker & Hostetler team in charge of liquidating assets of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff’s purported investment firm.
A page on the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s website was hacked earlier this month, and the culprits are likely Chinese hackers, according to a cyberthreat research team called ThreatConnect.
Dentons has hired former General Mills general counsel Roderick “Rick” Palmore, a 2009 ABA Journal Legal Rebel who promoted diversity in the legal profession.
Defense lawyers sought to establish during cross-examination on Monday that Dewey’s former chairman and its former executive director weren’t aware of improper accounting procedures.
Law firms are relying less on bank loans than in the recent past, partly because of the debt problems that helped precipitate the collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf.
After joining Reed Smith in 2011 from DLA Piper along with three other lawyers, U.S. capital markets practice group chair Yvan-Claude Pierre wasn’t looking to lead his team to another…
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