Hughes Hubbard & Reed was hired in 2006 to investigate allegations that a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College used the work of a former…
Updated: Well-known litigator Sheila Birnbaum of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom believed Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood used a press release and newspaper column to mischaracterize a Feb 21, 2008 1:03 PM CST
A criminal defense attorney on trial in Texas for allegedly overcharging his client in a high-profile murder case was accused in opening statements today of focusing on his own publicity…
A Florida law firm helps retailers discourage shoplifting by sending civil recovery letters to those who are caught, prompting criticism and complaints to the Florida bar.
Under commonly accepted recruiting guidelines, second-year law students have been able to ponder several summer associate offers for months at a time. No more.
Updated: A New York lawyer who reportedly was simultaneously listed as a full-time employee of five Long Island school districts for which he worked as legal counsel is seeing some…
Still several months short of the one-year anniversary of its IPO, what has been billed as the world’s first publicly owned law firm, Australia’s Slater & Gordon, has been growing…
A traditional taboo against suing banks among big-league United Kingdom law firms is rapidly losing its power as legal eagles there and abroad rev their engines in anticipation of a…
Arguing her position pro se, a woman has persuaded a Suffolk County, N.Y., judge not to allow a Manhattan law firm to bow of out her ongoing medical malpractice case.
A Sundance Film Festival documentary that chronicles the fight against coal-fired power plants in Texas is boosting the image of Houston law firm Susman & Godfrey.
The former general counsel for KLA-Tencor Corp. argues that a memo she wrote to a name partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati shows the law firm either approved or…
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