Editor’s Note: We asked readers to write an essay or record a video telling us how large firms can innovate. This was the actual question: “How can large firms change…
Six entertainment and corporate partners from the Los Angeles office of Hogan Lovells are joining Jenner & Block, almost doubling the number of partners on its attorney roster, the 470-attorney…
Contending that legal work performed by Foley & Lardner helped a former client perpetrate a claimed Ponzi scheme that stripped some investors of their life savings as insiders looted assets,…
A former lawyer with Nixon Peabody who earlier settled an insider-trading complaint without admitting liability has been sentenced to two years of probation for providing…
Many of the United Kingdom’s top law firms are either considering a plan to strip some so-called partners of their equity role or already implementing one.
The co-author of a study (PDF) that found that a Wall Street law firm was giving higher numerical performance reviews to male associates than it was female associates…
The bankruptcy estate of Heller Ehrman claims in a multimillion-dollar malpractice suit that an oversight by Greenberg Traurig led to a more “chaotic” wind down.
Lisa A. Alfaro joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1995 after receiving her JD from Stanford Law School. Now she is partner in charge of the firm’s São Paulo office…
Winston & Strawn is adding two more lawyers to its intellectual property practice group, announcing today that the firm is bringing in partners Alfred Fabricant and Lawrence Drucker as partners…
A longtime partner of Willkie Farr & Gallagher will be leading a group of up to 20 lawyers in-house to the firm’s biggest client in January, where he will serve…
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