Only a few months ago, the future seemingly wasn’t looking rosy for Carl Oosterhouse, a former partner of Dickinson Wright. The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board found that he should have…
The chairman of Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw says he wants to keep growing the law firm, but he won’t comment on reports that one of the options is to merge with…
An apparently bogus blueblood who made international headlines this summer after he allegedly kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter is putting a high-profile criminal defense attorney in charge of a variety of…
Cravath, Swaine & Moore has withdrawn as pro bono counsel for a convict who won a new trial on the basis of another man’s audiotaped murder confession that is now…
The Wall Street meltdown poses a lot of intriguing questions for law firms. Will their obsession with New York continue? Will the big firms have to lower their billing rates,…
A law school known for its focus on real-world legal education has launched a new research center that will explore what lawyers do and why clients hire them.
A well-known Chicago attorney who is a former longtime city alderman has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail fraud. The case, which involves a claimed kickback paid to put…
When attorney Mark Peroff moved to the Manhattan office of Hiscock & Barclay, a 200-lawyer firm headquartered in upstate New York, he persuaded clients to follow him by offering a…
Updated: A Chicago Bar Association program aimed at increasing the number of women in law firm partnership ranks is being criticized for being too lenient in crediting law firms for…
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