Thirteen London law offices including those of DLA Piper and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis are participating in a survey by an outside consultant that is intended to help…
Updated: A shocked judge on the United Kingdom’s High Court has criticized one of the country’s most prominent law firms for spending way too much time representing Research In Motion…
Despite the slowing national economy that has led to layoffs at some law firms, the Spokane, Wash., office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis is doing just fine.
Bernadine Dohrn, a former member of the Weather Underground, is now a law professor at Northwestern University with an expertise in children’s law. Her husband, former Underground member Bill Ayers,…
Updated: Four attorneys working for a prominent education law firm in Albany, N.Y., have been disqualified from the state pension system by New York’s comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, because they were…
Prosecutors claim Milberg Weiss and its lawyers pocketed $251 million in attorney fees that were tainted by kickbacks paid to lead plaintiffs in securities cases. But so far the government…
Ten lawyers from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner have jumped ship, joining the New York, Newark, N.J., and New Haven, Conn. offices of Littler Mendelson.
The Coca-Cola Co. sent a questionnaire to its 18 outside law firms asking about their diversity practices, then honored Shook, Hardy & Bacon for good results.
A small number of companies are now using third-party funding to help defend corporate litigation in the United Kingdom, and hedge funds are among the potential funding sources.
A number of leading British law firms have become more supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender attorneys and employees in recent years, making the legal profession one of the…
The head of recruitment and development at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis says the firm wants to give associates a bigger say in firm initiatives.
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