The Massachusetts attorney general has the power to investigate a law firm over claimed “unfair and deceptive acts” concerning its handling of mortgage foreclosure cases for lenders, as well as…
In a big step beyond its existing three offices in New York, New Jersey and San Francisco, a 1,400-attorney London-based law firm has now opened a fourth U.S. office, in…
Getting laid off from a BigLaw job isn’t pleasant. But it’s not the end of the world either, a former Sidley Austin bankruptcy associate tells compatriots from Weil Gotshal &…
After advance word that a number of partners planned to exit Patton Boggs in order to establish a Holland & Knight office in Dallas, their new firm has made an…
Despite reports this week of planned lawyer layoffs by Goodwin Procter and Weil Gotshal and Manges, as well as a 17-partner exit at Patton Boggs, managing partners of six major…
A former partner of Sidley Austin who was a real estate practice leader and a member of the firm’s executive committee is facing an Illinois legal ethics complaint over $69,000…
Husch Blackwell announced Wednesday that it will soon be merging with Brown McCarroll, acquiring its first Texas offices—in Austin, Dallas and Houston—and about 65 more attorneys in…
For the first time this year, the American Lawyer has asked the nation’s 200 largest law firms to supply figures on the spread in compensation between their top-paid and lowest-paid…
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