A high-profile former staff lawyer at Covington & Burling who accused the law firm of discrimination is back in the ballgame again with a federal lawsuit she filed against the…
Staff members have voted overwhelmingly in support of a temporary 10-percent pay cut at the biggest law firm in Scotland, from September to April, when the next fiscal year begins.
In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court has disbarred a San Francisco sole practitioner who changed his vote to break a deadlock while serving on a jury, after a…
Six lawyers from DLA Piper, including the head of the litigation practice for the Philadelphia office, are leaving to join Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, a midsize local law partnership…
The attorney general of New York has sued 35 law firms and two collectors in a case that could overturn 100,000 default judgments in consumer debt cases.
Troutman Sanders has confirmed a 10 percent cut in what the law firm describes as “the total amount of associate pay that was budgeted for Aug. 1-Dec. 31, 2009.”
A Manhattan judge has ruled that former CBS anchor Dan Rather may get access to e-mail messages between members of a panel hired to investigate one of his stories and…
A 54-year-old woman who was fired from her job as an administrative staffer at Crowell & Moring last year claims in a lawsuit that age bias was the reason.
A lateral partner fired for failing to meet revenue projections claims in a lawsuit that Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge should have lowered its expectations after the economic downturn.
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