An April Fools’ Day email to Weil Gotshal & Manges employees saying that electronic messages would not be transmitted late at night or to vacationing workers, was intended as a…
A five-lawyer patent team headed by Michael Ferrazano has exited Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice to open a new Silicon Valley office for Sacramento-based Downey Brand.
Updated: Duane Morris corporate practice chief George Nemphos and corporate partner Jay Cohen have resigned after a malpractice suit claimed they told a client to pay fees to a company…
Large law firms are at “high risk for cyberintrusions,” according to an internal report by Citigroup’s cyberintelligence center that called for public disclosure of security breaches by law firms.
A federal judge in Manhattan is ordering lawyers in a United Parcel Service lawsuit to file new pleadings that are short and plain, in keeping with Rule 8 of the…
Three intellectual property partners have exited the Denver office of Faegre Baker Daniels to establish an IP practice group at the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr office there.
A former antitrust partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher accused of defrauding her law firm is facing new scrutiny because of her email communications with opposing counsel in an antitrust…
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a warning on Monday when it revealed it won’t sanction a Foley & Lardner partner who submitted a jargon-filled cert petition after his client…
A Florida bankruptcy judge overseeing a fight between investors in a shuttered fashion mall made no secret of his dissatisfaction with a Duane Morris pleading during a sanctions hearing on…
AT&T’s $40 million appeal of a patent judgment is doomed because its lawyers relied on mislabeled docket notices and missed a deadline, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
Goodwin Procter has laid off 21 lawyers and 17 staffers in its litigation department, but it will consider hiring laid off lawyers for open transactional positions.
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