Warning a former client of Dickstein Shapiro that future sanctions could be forthcoming if continues to disregard local discovery rules in Washington, D.C., before making dubious motions, a federal judge…
A former London lawyer who gave up a lucrative legal job in the global financial center after she had her first child is now challenging the traditional idea that skilled…
An Illinois lawyer has been disbarred by the state supreme court for misrepresenting his income on his child’s private school financial aid applications, in order to qualify for $22,830 in…
In happy holiday news for BigLaw associates, Cravath Swaine & Moore announced on Monday that it will pay associates a year-end bonus ranging from $10,000 to $60,000.
As the legal economy overall continues to sputter and lawyers in many practice areas are aggressively looking for work, there’s no need for a number of attorneys and law firms…
In the last decade, women’s initiatives and women’s affinity groups have become a staple of BigLaw culture. The idea is to retain and advance women lawyers, who currently make up…
An ex-partner of Mayer Brown was found guilty Friday by a federal jury in Manhattan of seven of the 10 counts he faced for allegedly helping then-executives of the Refco…
A court-appointed receiver representing victims of a $7 billion Ponzi scheme for which former billionaire R. Allen Stanford is now serving a 110-year prison term has sued two well-known law…
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The Human Rights Campaign has given perfect scores to 71 law firms in its 2013 Corporate Equality Index for policies benefiting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
In what it says is the first such move by a U.S.-based firm specializing in labor and employment law, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart has announced that it will…
Corrected: Fulbright & Jaworski and Norton Rose have announced plans for a merger that will create a global law firm with 3,800 lawyers and nearly $2 billion in revenues.
Boston-based Choate Hall & Stewart has raided Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, announcing Tuesday that the BigLaw firm’s entire private client practice group, headed by four partners, will be…
A creditors committee is citing alleged mismanagement in a request to pursue claims against the former chairman of Dewey & LeBoeuf and two other managers.
If you’ve ever wondered why it can be so difficult to juggle motherhood and BigLaw, a Clifford Chance associate dubbed Ms. X explains it in a departure memo with a…
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