Jones Day is freezing staff pay through June 30, 2010 and eliminating “year-end payments” and discretionary bonuses in 2009 in response to the dismal economy.
A former associate at the Beijing office of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood has written a steamy memoir about his sexcapades, wild parties and pot-smoking in a new book called…
A New York appeals court has stayed a malpractice suit against Greenberg Traurig and the chairman of its New York office to allow the facts to be developed first in…
Over defense objections, the former head of trusts and estates at Sullivan & Cromwell testified yesterday about Brooke Astor’s embarrassment over her son’s marriage to a preacher’s ex-wife.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor forced a Washington, D.C., law firm to apologize for a partner’s questions during a recruiting dinner in her third…
Practicing intellectual property law at Pavia & Harcourt in the 1980s and 1990s offered U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor an early opportunity to demonstrate her legal eagle potential.
Sleep isn’t as restful as it used to be for 49-year-old “Frances,” a law firm employee who worries that she and her boyfriend could lose their jobs due to the…
A paralegal in Philadelphia who was a pioneering commenter on the law on Twitter is being mourned by dozens of followers who feel as though they have lost a close…
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll has learned some lessons from a disappointing period in which profits per equity partner plummeted from about $545,000, in 2007, to $415,000, in 2008.
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