A lawyer who told reporters last year that he gave up his six-figure job at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott to pursue justice is facing his own bout with the…
An Illinois lawyer who is under consideration for the job of U.S. attorney got an up-close taste of crime-fighting on Wednesday when he chased and tackled a suspected thief.
While some law firms are leading the charge to promote women and minority partners to management positions, others remain dominated by the “white man’s voice,” and gender bias that keep…
Although revenue is up nearly 3 percent at the United Kingdom’s top 50 law firms, equity partner profit has plunged an average of 17 percent over the past fiscal year…
In the boom times, big law firms reaped big fees and relentlessly expanded, pushing the average take home pay for partners to a million dollars or more.
When McKee Nelson laid off 17 associates and 15 staffers last November, the firm’s co-founder William Nelson told the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, “This is market-driven,…
Morale has dropped to a record-low level for midlevel associates at the country’s largest 200 law firms, and worries about job security appear to be the reason.
Recent news that a prominent lawyer had committed suicide, apparently under extra pressure both because of having had a baby within the year and because of the dismal economy, has…
The murder of a California attorney’s 17-year-old daughter after she was allegedly kidnapped near Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles has stunned the local legal community.
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