2252 ABA Journal Large Firm articles.
A technology worker claims in a lawsuit that he has been working as much as 56 hours a week at Dewey & LeBoeuf since 2009 without receiving any overtime pay.
…Apr 6, 2011 1:00 PM CDT
Winston & Strawn managing partner Tom Fitzgerald says conflicts of interest stymied his firm’s ambitious plans to hire 140 partners from the crumbling Howrey law firm.
Only 15 Howrey partners…
Apr 5, 2011 1:27 PM CDT
For decades, the Duke University School of Law has downplayed its association with arguably its most notorious graduate: Richard M. Nixon.
However, in a sign that the university is slowly…
Apr 4, 2011 7:03 PM CDT
When a top in-house lawyer is deciding how to approach an unusual problem, it might well be helpful to talk with a seasoned counterpart. But even for a corporation’s general…
Apr 1, 2011 9:07 PM CDT
For the last four years, the majority of new partners at Debevoise & Plimpton have been women.
The law firm has announced 15 new equity partners from 2008 to 2011,…
Apr 1, 2011 12:56 PM CDT
Lawyers and other professionals hired to clean up the aftermath of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme are expected to cost more than $1 billion.
As of the end of last year,…
Apr 1, 2011 12:24 PM CDT
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold is getting a makeover.
The law firm has officially shortened its name to Sedgwick, following the lead of firms such as Orrick and Bingham, the…
Apr 1, 2011 11:48 AM CDT
Staffers working to wrap up operations at Howrey learned in a memo Thursday that they would be out of a job by the end of a day.
Staffers were told…
Apr 1, 2011 11:28 AM CDT
It isn’t just legal skills that get the job done with a minimum of chaos. Especially in a crisis situation—i.e., routinely, for those who practice law in many settings—staying calm…
Mar 30, 2011 5:50 PM CDT
Throughout the state of Florida, chief judges apparently are in agreement that attorney David J. Stern and his law firm can’t simply abandon as many as 100,000 mortgage foreclosure cases.
…Mar 30, 2011 4:24 PM CDT
If BigLaw branding worked, Howrey would have survived, according to a onetime public relations consultant for the law firm.
If clients selected Howrey based on the institution, they would have…
Mar 30, 2011 11:00 AM CDT
Early rumors suggested that Howrey’s co-chair of global litigation, Robert Abrams, would be joining the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, Howrey’s co-counsel for 4,000 dairy farmers in a…
Mar 29, 2011 2:21 PM CDT
San Francisco lawyer Steven Kaufhold has been hearing more and more from clients who want flexible rate structures.
So the securities litigator, who recently left Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &…
Mar 25, 2011 5:10 PM CDT
A fired Ropes & Gray partner has filed an age and sex discrimination suit that contends the firm ousted her at age 63 after she complained that her clients were…
Mar 25, 2011 1:27 PM CDT
A federal judge has dismissed an indictment that had accused a former in-house lawyer of obstructing a probe into Wellbutrin off-label marketing, citing a grand juror’s “elephant in the room”…
Mar 24, 2011 5:08 PM CDT
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