In a brief filed this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a well-known law firm accuses its opposing counsel and a major corporation of using…
A 14-lawyer public finance practice group from Vinson & Elkins will be joining Bracewell & Giuliani in January as partners, their new firm announced today.
A former partner of Quarles & Brady is on trial for theft, accused of accepting $370,000 in checks from an elderly client in 2003 and 2004 who was not competent…
In its first public response to a $5.5 million lawsuit filed by client Regal Real Estate over millions of dollars allegedly stolen by a former Crowell & Moring attorney from…
Perhaps it’s due to a perception by corporate clients that leading New York law firms, like Wall Street businesses, are raking in too much money in tough economic times.
Arnold & Porter will be adding 80 lawyers and a San Francisco office to its letterhead Jan. 1 with the acquisition of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin.
After news that Cravath Swaine & Moore will pay year-end bonuses of between $7,500 and $37,500 to its associates, Proskauer Rose has announced that the same range will apply to…
A storied law firm with a 126-year history has struggled a bit in recent years, seeing its profits and attorney roster shrink—although revenue per lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers is…
An investment group that had sought damages from Dechert concerning a fraudulent $50 million loan promoted by the former managing partner of Dreier is out of luck.
While they are more than some ordinary workers make annually, the year-end bonuses for associates just announced by Cravath Swaine & Moore show that mergers and acquisition work isn’t booming,…
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