Updated: As part of an upcoming program at the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting later this month, an all-male panel was initially organized to offer “specific skill-building advice”…
It’s a truism that a law firm that sues a client to collect an unpaid bill is almost asking for a malpractice claim. And a $6 million unpaid-bill suit filed…
A former in-house lawyer who sued his onetime employer for religious bias must respond to allegations that he revealed confidential information in his complaint, a New York appeals court has…
Dismissing other claims by a former associate of Labaton Sucharow, a New York state judge has nonetheless ruled in his favor concerning what she calls the “big issue.”
As a number of BigLaw firms have struggled over the past year to deal with the global economic downturn, one of their midsize competitors has been enjoying record revenue and…
Needing a break after a workday spent on white-collar insurance fraud defense matters in New York City, Matthew Litt started reading printouts of archived 1945 newspaper articles on his ride…
Using receipts fished out of a local liquor store’s garbage, a New York University employee allegedly submitted $409,000 in fraudulent expense reimbursement claims between 2003 and 2008.
Known for its lucrative corporate bankruptcy practice, Weil Gotshal & Manges is showing associates the money after a year of unprecedented layoffs, pay freezes and even pay cuts at a…
There may be some tense elevator encounters among attorneys at one Manhattan office building after the announcement of a planned defection of 15 lawyers from Dickstein Shapiro to Kasowitz Benson…
The former head of pro bono at Kaye Scholer has been suspended from practice for a year for failing to pay millions of dollars in state and federal taxes for…
Contending Dechert issued a “false” opinion letter used by then-practicing attorney Marc Dreier to defraud Fortress Investment Group, the private equity and hedge fund firm sued the legal partnership today…
After an inspector general’s report that castigates a New York state police forensic scientist for faulty work that went undetected by his supervisors over…
A former litigation associate of nearly a decade is poised to file a federal discrimination suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, contending that the firm denied her a…
Kelley Drye & Warren has joined a growing contingent of BigLaw firms that are abandoning the traditional “lockstep” system of paying associates based on the year in which they graduated…
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