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A Los Angeles law firm may be held liable for the conduct of one of its partners who removed bags of cash from a client’s condo, a California appeals court…
May 1, 2007 1:14 PM CDT
A Manhattan judge has rebuffed Sullivan & Cromwell’s effort to dismiss a sexual orientation suit filed against it.
May 1, 2007 12:56 PM CDT
Chicago-based Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has established a new office in Charlotte, N.C., raiding one of the local offices of Atlanta-based Kilpatrick Stockton in order to do so.
A total…
May 1, 2007 11:00 AM CDT
A high-profile prosecutor is joining Proskauer Rose in New York CIty as a member of its white-collar defense and internal-investigations group.
Dietrich “Dieter” L. Snell had prosecuted cases involving terrorism,…
Apr 30, 2007 2:45 PM CDT
Some debt collectors are garnishing Social Security payments in violation of federal law.
Banks earn a range of fees on garnishment orders and don’t check the source of funds when…
Apr 30, 2007 2:37 PM CDT
A lawyer who once worked at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman in New York is taking issue with the government’s definition of the term “kickback.”
Steven G. Schulman is seeking…
Apr 30, 2007 12:32 PM CDT
Equity partners at most of the 100 largest U.S. law firms are making an profit of at least $1 million a year.
Apr 30, 2007 12:15 PM CDT
Pay is going up for new lawyers at some London law firms.
Starting pay will be $130,000 a year at Allen & Overy and $127,000 at Clifford Chance, according to…
Apr 30, 2007 12:02 PM CDT
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s new Beijing office will be headed by a lawyer from a British law firm, the New York Law Journal reports.
Douglas…
Apr 27, 2007 12:45 PM CDT
New York’s highest court has ordered a real-estate investment company to pay the $1.4 million outstanding balance of a “success fee” charged by Davis Polk & Wardwell.
A partner in the white-collar practice group at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads is leaving to become an associate counsel to President Bush, according to the Legal…
Apr 26, 2007 4:52 PM CDT A federal judge in San Francisco is criticizing a plaintiffs law firm, saying its conduct in a lawsuit against a vacuum cleaner company “reeks.” Wall Street Journal’s Apr 26, 2007 4:40 PM CDT A lawyer whose medical malpractice client claimed paralysis, then was caught on videotape walking with a cane, questions why defense lawyers waited almost two years to disclose the tape. John…
Apr 26, 2007 12:33 PM CDT The latest lawyer to leave Dewey Ballantine’s Silicon Valley office is the managing partner. Jeannine Yoo Sano will join the East Palo Alto, Calif., office of Howrey on May 1,…
Apr 26, 2007 12:14 PM CDT When Sidley Austin opens its first office in Australia, it will be headed by a lawyer who jumped from a job as managing partner at the Sydney office of Pillsbury…
Apr 25, 2007 5:39 PM CDTLawyers’ Conduct ‘Reeks,’ Judge Says
Lawyer Raps ‘Paralyzed’ Client, Opposing Counsel
Another Dewey Ballantine Lawyer Leaves
Sidley to Open Australia Office
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