The co-chairs of McDermott Will & Emery are upbeat about the firm’s position, despite the loss of at least 38 partners this year, some of them practice group leaders. The…
A lawyer who left a BigLaw partnership to stay home with her two young daughters returned to the same law firm and helped create her new position there.
Peter Mullen, a New York lawyer who worked with Joseph H. Flom for many years to build Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom into a powerhouse megafirm, died Saturday of…
A former BigLaw partner and a cable television pioneer are donating $40 million to Harvard University, one of two institutions where the two spouses earned law degrees.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman plans to centralize the administrative services for its 14 offices in a new facility in Nashville, Tenn., that will house up to 150 employees after it…
Saying that a special committee used “a series of economic contortions” to justify a Delaware corporation’s plan to pay a premium $3.1 billion price to purchase a company owned by…
World Wide Rush, a former client of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, has filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against the firm for dispensing advice that WWR says led to…
The entire land use practice group in the Portland, Ore., office of Davis Wright Tremaine has reportedly exited the Seattle-based law firm to form a new boutique.
The Indiana Supreme Court yesterday ordered the interim suspension of a lawyer accused last year of kicking in a door, committing a battery on her boyfriend and carrying a knife…
A much-anticipated new law that will revolutionize the provision of legal services to consumers in the United Kingdom and allow non-attorneys to invest in and help run “alternative business structures”…
The former chief financial officer at the Adelaide office of a top Australian firm made off with nearly 2.7 million dollars of his colleagues’ money over a 10-year period before…
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