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…
A Pennsylvania solo who was sued by both parties over the papers she drew up for the $1.9 million sale of a New Jersey liquor store has won dismissals of…
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