It all began with a corporate bankruptcy case. Retained by energy entrepreneur Adam H. Victor in April 2010 to prepare the Chapter 11 filing for one of his companies, DLA…
Law firm leaders are more confident than they’ve been in in months about the legal industry’s financial future and expect to see increased revenue and profits this year.
As female attorneys in private practice continue to earn less than male counterparts, the American Bar Association has put together a program to help law firms address pay inequities.
The bankruptcy trustee in Howrey’s Chapter 11 case has filed clawback litigation against six of the 71 successor law firms to which former partners took unfinished business after the collapse…
A California judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two former Howrey partners who contended that Citibank misled them and should have disclosed more to them about their own law firm’s…
Four Crowell & Moring lawyers won’t face ethics charges for a suggestion in a client alert that inbreeding could be responsible for Appalachian birth defects chronicled in a study of…
Two former partners of Dewey & LeBoeuf, along with the law firm at which they now practice, Paul Hastings, have agreed to pay nearly $1.6 million to settle a claim…
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