The exposure of the fen-phen lawyers accused of bilking their clients out of $94 million in settlement money began in 2004 when a woman walked into the office of Lexington,…
Graduates of elite law schools are less satisfied with their jobs at large law firms than graduates of less selective schools, according two researchers for the American Bar Foundation.
A management partner at Bryan Cave says the law firm is taking steps to ensure that deferred associates have appropriate “resources,” but isn’t confirming a report that the law firm…
Federal prosecutors have accused a purchasing specialist at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of conspiring with top employees of an office supply company to bilk the law firm out of…
A number of British law firms have recently added up the numbers for fiscal years that run from 2008 to 2009 and, after a year of economic turmoil that has…
Kirkland & Ellis has laid off more than 20 associates in New York and has also reportedly chosen not to retain associates in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and Chicago offices.
A common theme emerges among the stories of many lawyers who jump to new careers: They test the waters first, trying out their new career as a sideline while still…
Five whistle-blowers will share $102 million as part of a record-breaking $2.3 billion settlement by Pfizer Inc. of a federal criminal probe and civil qui tam…
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