A former 10-year worker in the copy department of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson is facing felony charges alleging that he stole $376,000 worth of copy machine toner from…
During the fall of 2009, as the legal economy was headed into a tailspin, two attorneys at the Wilmington, Del., office of Pennsylvania-based Riley Riper Hollin & Colagreco did something…
Already accused of teaming up with a vendor to bilk a Chicago-based international law firm of nearly $1 million, the former chief information officer of Mayer Brown is now facing…
Law firms are reaping more in legal fees, likely because of rate increases and clients willing to pay top dollar for the best legal talent, according to a study of…
In a case that could resonate with lawyers at other struggling legal shops, two former partners of Howrey are contending in a lawsuit in state court in California that Citibank…
The U.S. Trustee Program is asking a federal court in Manhattan to strip a well-known law firm and a financial adviser of $10 million in fees they have earned in…
The head of one of Florida’s well-known so-called foreclosure mill law firms has agreed to state bar discipline that will require him to close down his law office.
In the last 12 months before Dewey & LeBoeuf imploded in a record-breaking bankruptcy last year, the top 25 partners of the BigLaw firm were paid some $70…
The new chief of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is expected to continue to pursue aggressive enforcement of laws barring anticompetitive behavior.
Less than five years after a dozen senior lawyers from the French branch of Taylor Wessing defected to Nixon Peabody and created its Paris office, that Paris office is closing.
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