2643 ABA Journal Large Firm articles.
New York-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has had an office in Hong Kong since 1993.
But, until now, it only practiced United States law there. That will soon change, following…
Apr 29, 2011 9:12 PM CDT
The fallout continues over King & Spalding’s decision to take on, and then drop, the defense of the federal law banning recognition of gay marriages.
The latest news: Virginia Attorney…
Apr 29, 2011 3:55 PM CDT
DLA Piper has acquired the 10 lawyers who worked for the California boutique law firm Stevens, O’Connell & Jacobs, including two former U.S. attorneys.
The Sacramento boutique firm is closing…
Apr 29, 2011 3:19 PM CDT
Yale Law Women has released its annual list of the top 10 family friendly law firms.
Debevoise & Plimpton and Steptoe & Johnson Apr 29, 2011 11:43 AM CDT
A macho culture? That’s not our law firm, Dechert says in an answer (PDF) to an associate’s bias suit.
Former Boston associate Ariel Ayanna Apr 28, 2011 12:20 PM CDT
The BigLaw money machine was back in business again in 2010, according to the American Lawyer’s annual survey of the nation’s 100 largest law firms.
Average profit per partner was…
Apr 28, 2011 12:11 AM CDT
Fulbright & Jaworski has opened an office in Pittsburgh, raiding K&L Gates for a six-lawyer energy team to do so, reports the Houston Business Journal.
Led…
Apr 27, 2011 3:23 PM CDT
A 66-year-old partner in one of Canada’s biggest corporate law firms is fighting a policy that ordinarily would have forced him to retire at 65.
Mitch McCormick won a key…
Apr 27, 2011 12:08 AM CDT
A Texas lawyer who serves as senior counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has been tapped by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig to oversee the operations of…
Apr 26, 2011 11:20 PM CDT
The recently merged law firm SNR Denton is experiencing some growing pains.
The law firm is reviewing its operations in the United Kingdom because of a likely drop in partner…
Apr 26, 2011 12:26 PM CDT
Apparently bowing to political pressure, King & Spalding has dropped its representation of the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives in defense of a controversial federal law banning recognition of same-sex…
Apr 25, 2011 5:15 PM CDT
A former associate at Quarles & Brady in Phoenix contends in a lawsuit that the law firm was more critical of minorities than whites and gave better work to nonminorities.
…Apr 25, 2011 1:18 PM CDT
Large law firms lost nearly 2,900 lawyers last year, but the number pales in comparison to the previous year’s losses.
In 2009, large law firms shrank by about 6,600 lawyers,…
Apr 25, 2011 12:54 PM CDT
A defense lawyer for the hedge fund manager accused of gaining more than $63 million through insider trading cited Alice in Wonderland in closing arguments on Thursday.
Lawyer John Dowd…
Apr 22, 2011 1:26 PM CDT
McKenna Long & Aldridge noticed a difference between the way it was hiring new lawyers and the way its corporate clients hired top employees, and decided to do something about…
Apr 22, 2011 12:21 PM CDT
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