A former partner of Allen & Overy and Macfarlanes had to serve a month in prison after being convicted of perverting the course of justice for lying to police to…
Chapman and Cutler has announced that it plans to open an office in Washington, D.C., with six structured finance and securitization partners from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Our thesis here at the New Normal is that the legal services that corporations buy will come to look more like other activities inside companies, and the legal services small…
Updated: A former associate at Cravath Swaine & Moore yesterday had his law license suspended for three years by a New York appeals court due to his earlier conviction in…
Firing back at an investor group that named Fulbright & Jaworski as a defendant in a Nevada lawsuit over a land acquisition by Texas A&M University, the law firm has…
Herbert Smith, a venerable London-based firm with over 1,000 lawyers, is in preliminary talks with Australia’s Freehills concerning a possible megamerger.
An investor in a bankrupt California-based real estate lender is suing Greenberg Traurig, contending that the law firm helped the client company, RE Loans LLC, conceal its liquidity issues and…
A federal judge has given a green light both to a race discrimination suit filed against Mayer Brown by a fired former associate and a counterclaim in which the law…
Ten lawyers are poised to leap from the Paris office of SNR Denton to Hughes Hubbard & Reed, leaving exactly one partner at the helm in their soon-to-be-former legal shop.
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