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.
An unidentified attorney got a job at a law firm in Munich in order to gather information about businessman Leo Kirch on behalf of Deutsche Bank NG, says a German…
The $40,000 worth of Baccarat crystal and a set of seven Dale Chihuly glass light fixtures for which attorney Marc Dreier paid $180,000 will be sold separately.
A 30-year-old Boston-based intellectual property boutique has abruptly changed its name, as one of its co-founders and another partner announced their resignation yesterday over other partners’ refusal to consider a…
The legal profession in the United Kingdom is too socially exclusive, drawing lawyers from well-to-do families and private schools, according to a report released today.
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