Plumbers get paid at a significantly higher rate for after-hours jobs. But law firm associates are often asked—no, expected—to accept last-minute after-hours work assignments, not only for no additional pay…
After a plea agreement and an apology last week by Milberg Weiss founding partner Melvyn Weiss over a scheme to pay millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to lead plaintiffs…
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, 37, and his former chief of staff were charged today in an obstruction of justice case related to their testimony in a police whistle-blower case last…
Updated: Despite all the hoopla over megafirms’ megaprofits in 2007, the three law firms that for the first time topped $2 billion in gross revenue weren’t where the real money…
Apparently because of the slowing economy, a number of major law firms are pulling back from the record-breaking summer hiring of 2007 and are expecting smaller summer associate classes this…
Zach Scruggs, the son and law partner of famed Mississippi plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in a judicial bribery case that also brought…
More than 100 general counsel and law firm managing partners plan to focus on specifics when they meet next month in Arizona on improving diversity in the profession.
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