A middle manager at a small law firm is beefing about associates who struggle to meet billable goals and deadlines, bungling things to such an extent that they must be…
Ralph Baxter Jr., who has led San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for 19 years, has a reputation as a visionary and strong leader who has led the firm’s international…
Blaming a former company lawyer for the criminal case against her, an executive of Stanford Financial Group has sued the lawyer, Thomas Sjoblom, and Proskauer Rose, the…
Some go to law classes to focus on what the professor says. But Rachel Keener was fortunate to have a husband who was also a student at Wake Forest University…
Sued last month by a former staff attorney who claimed Covington & Burling maintained its staff attorney ranks as a ghetto for minority attorneys, the law firm didn’t hesitate to…
A federal appeals court has ruled a female partner doesn’t have to arbitrate her sexual discrimination claim against Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, despite an arbitration clause in the firm’s bylaws.
At least eight law firms have opened in the Los Angeles area since the economy soured last year, spurred in some cases by the chance to merge with other firms…
The 40-lawyer Miami law firm Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin is losing two of its name partners and a dozen other lawyers, but it’s not imploding, according to founding partner…
Updated: A new survey of lawyers at law firms and corporations found that 65 percent don’t anticipate any more thinning in their ranks within the next year.
In the news last month when he complained that authorities had searched his law office, a Long Island criminal, matrimonial and real estate attorney now has additional trouble on his…
It appears that the worst might possibly be over, both for the struggling global economy and the ever-increasing number of major law firms that have been laying off support staff,…
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