Former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner John Altorelli has moved on to DLA Piper, where he is co-chair of its U.S. finance practice. But that move hasn’t ended his financial…
There’s been plenty of talk about law firm mergers this year, from the continuing saga of the Dewey & Leboeuf collapse to the hopeful new combinations of Squire Sanders…
A Jones Day bankruptcy partner charged Detroit nearly $34,000 for travel to and from his Florida vacation home and almost $5,000 for private cars, according to a newspaper’s review of…
In a federal lawsuit filed last week against a former client, Venable doesn’t simply accuse Overseas Lease Group Inc. of failing to pay a $300,000 bill.
In another sign of an improved economy for BigLaw firms, an unlikely market leader has upped the ante for end-of-year bonuses paid to associate attorneys.
The partners of Locke Lord and Edwards Wildman Palmer have OK’d a merger, effective Jan. 10, that will put the melded 1,000-attorney firm among the county’s 50 highest-grossing law partnerships.
O’Melveny & Myers will investigate the University of Virginia’s handling of sexual-assault reports after a critical story in Rolling Stone about the school’s handling of a woman’s report of being…
A third-year student at Drexel University’s law school claims in a lawsuit against Dechert that its reliance on higher-ranked law schools in hiring discriminates against the disabled.
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