There’s good news and bad news for incoming first-year associates at Kaye Scholer. Some will do the firm’s usual corporate work at what is presumably a six-figure standard starting salary.…
Major law firms in the United States and the United Kingdom are reportedly pondering new plans for making expanded use of contract attorneys to help keep legal costs to corporate…
Contending that Heller Ehrman, in effect, fraudulently conveyed $150 million to partners after the law firm had become insolvent, creditors are seeking full reimbursement from the former partners of the…
The management committees of London-based Lovells and Hogan & Hartson have voted to recommend that the entire partnerships approve a merger of the two law firms.
Years ago, when he worked at Sullivan & Cromwell’s offices on Wall Street as a corporate associate during the 1990s, Gil Cornblum regularly conducted what he called “spelunking” raids there…
Updated: An early report about bleak unemployment numbers for the class of 2009 at the University of Colorado Law School has provoked controversy and a debate over whether the statistics…
After casting the swing vote in an arbitration that upped the ante on New York City transit worker pay by 11.3 percent over three years, a Weil Gotshal & Manges…
It’s a move billed as offering enhanced attorney training. But Reed Smith is also sidestepping traditional lockstep advancement—and annual pay increases—for associates in a new CareeRS program announced today.
Unhappy about the result of a motion filed by his matrimonial lawyer in a child custody dispute, a New Jersey accountant allegedly took extreme action.
Dealing with the worst legal economy they have seen in nearly four decades of practice, senior partners at law firms in Las Vegas are cutting costs wherever they can.
Corrected: An intellectual property law firm in Philadelphia is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bicyclist who struck and killed a paralegal.
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