A new survey has found that lawyers expect bankruptcy to be the hottest growth area for law firms this year. That’s no secret to law firm managers who are already…
A former corporate partner at Latham & Watkins in New York pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to stealing $200,000 from his firm and clients by filing false expense…
When Alabama attorney and Navy Reserve officer Sterling DeRamus got married, his wife felt reasonably sure he would be a full-time solo practitioner and weekend soldier.
Nearly two dozen school districts on Long Island improperly reported private attorneys as employees, helping them earn public pensions totaling more than $342,082 a year, Newsday reported today.
Veteran U.S. Rep. Albert R. Wynn, D-Md., announced this week he’s resigning from Congress early to become a partner at Dickstein Shapiro, which is known in part for a strong…
A federal judge has approved an apparent $4.25 million settlement by Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in a lawsuit by a bankruptcy receiver. The suit had targeted the law firm…
It isn’t just Australia and the United Kingdom where investors are making inroads into litigation-funding practices that once were the exclusive province of lawyers and, in individual cases, their clients.
After pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge and serving a prison term of more than three years for a punch that allegedly caused a neighbor’s death, a Connecticut man is…
For years, two small law firms with adjacent offices in Lexington, N.C., have been friendly competitors with multiple social connections between their respective attorneys. But now they are going to…
A lawsuit loan company that advanced $25,000 to an Atlanta lawyer and his law firm in exchange for a stake in the litigation has filed a lawsuit that shines a…
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