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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…
Apr 15, 2011 12:26 PM CDT
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…
Apr 14, 2011 10:26 PM CDT
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…
Apr 14, 2011 3:59 PM CDT
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…
Apr 14, 2011 12:40 PM CDT
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…
Apr 13, 2011 9:52 PM CDT
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…
Apr 13, 2011 10:10 AM CDT
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…
Apr 12, 2011 6:01 PM CDT
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…
Apr 12, 2011 2:16 PM CDT
Baker & McKenzie and a former partner have been sued in what the Am Law Daily describes as a scathing complaint (PDF) over their…
Apr 12, 2011 12:38 PM CDT
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…
Apr 12, 2011 12:06 PM CDT
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…
Apr 12, 2011 10:33 AM CDT
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…
Apr 11, 2011 5:24 PM CDT
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…
Apr 11, 2011 12:13 PM CDT
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…
Apr 11, 2011 10:02 AM CDT
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…
Apr 11, 2011 10:01 AM CDT
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