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Merger Creates Largest Firm in Carolinas

North Carolina’s Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice is snapping up a small Charleston, S.C., firm, bringing its lawyer total to 550.

With the acquisition of Buist Moore Smythe McGee, the…

Andrews Kurth Sued for Malpractice

A former client this week sued Andrews Kurth for malpractice, alleging that while the law firm was working on a building lease negotiation that ultimately failed, the firm also represented…

Paul Weiss Steals 2 Corporate Partners from Shearman to Staff Its New Toronto Office

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison raided Shearman & Sterling for manpower to staff its new Toronto office.

The new partners are Christopher Cummings, a capital markets and mergers and…

TARP Watchdog Questions Vague Billings by Venable, Other BigLaw Firms

An audit report by the acting inspector general of the Troubled Asset Relief Program has questioned billings by Venable and other law firms, saying that they are often vague and…

5 Ex-Yoss Lawyers Join Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan’s New Boston Office

Five attorneys from the now-defunct Yoss law firm have joined Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan’s new Boston office.

The New England office of what is now the country’s largest certified minority-owned…

Ex-Bronco Romanowski Sues Greenberg Traurig, Says He Got Hit Hard By Tax Shelter OK’d By Firm

A former linebacker for the Denver Broncos has sued Greenberg Traurig, alleging that the law firm was getting a secret 7 percent commission for steering investors to a thoroughbred breeding-rights…

Suit Says NY Gov’t Lawyer Earned $1M from Nixon Peabody, Seeks to Force Restitution to State

A government attorney in New York was paid nearly $1 million by Nixon Peabody over more than a decade as the law firm defended his county in land-claim litigation brought…

Would-Be Facebook Co-Owner Cites Email Evidence in Court Filing; Social Site Lawyer Calls It Fake

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg prevailed yesterday in one challenge to his ownership of the world’s biggest social networking site.

But another is heating up. In the latest…

Scathing Complaint Blames Baker & McKenzie, Ex-Partner for Collapse of Corporate Client

Baker & McKenzie and a former partner have been sued in what the Am Law Daily describes as a scathing complaint (PDF) over their…

Top Fla. Court to Address High-Profile Foreclosure Case Based on Inaccurate Loan Documents

Can a bank that files a mortgage foreclosure case based on inaccurate documents simply withdraw it when the lack of an appropriate foundation for the litigation becomes clear?

That is…

Middleman Pleads Guilty in $34M Insider-Trading Case, Says Lawyer Stole Info from 4th BigLaw Firm

A man accused of being a middleman in an alleged insider-trading operation that prosecutors say reaped some $34 million in illegal profits over a 17-year period pleaded guilty yesterday in…

Nixed for Urination-Monitor Job Over Birth Gender, Worker Files Unusual Discrimination Suit

Born physically female, 39-year-old El’Jai Devoureau is now male according to his birth certificate, driver’s license and social security card, following a course of male hormones and sex-change surgery.

But…

Husch Blackwell to Move in with UK Firm, in London, Without Benefit of Wedlock

Although no merger is apparently contemplated right now, Husch Blackwell and a United Kingdom law firm are planning to set up housekeeping together in London.

As part…

Accused Middleman ID’d, Expected to Plead in Alleged Insider Info Theft By BigLaw Attorney

A middleman who allegedly passed confidential merger and acquisition information from a BigLaw attorney to a trader involved in a $109 million insider-trading scheme is expected to plead guilty as…

BigLaw Email Bans Short Skirts and Stiletto Heels, Asks Women to Please Brush Their Hair

Reportedly horrified by the sight of a number of female trainees showing too much leg and looking like they were ready for a night of “clubbing” rather than a day…

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