A solo practitioner in New York state has been suspended for two years because he hired a disbarred lawyer, an old law school friend, as a paralegal and then gave…
Feb 10, 2015 5:45 AM CST
An error by a paralegal at Mayer Brown went undiscovered by higher-ups at the law firm as well as by lawyers at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, erasing JPMorgan Chase Bank’s…
Jan 22, 2015 9:16 AM CST
Initially accused of driving a law firm employee home after a work-related event and raping her, a prominent Pennsylvania attorney has taken a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor.
Because of…
Nov 24, 2014 4:30 PM CST
Morgan Lewis is acquiring 525 lawyers and staffers from Bingham McCutchen in addition to 226 partners from the law firm.
Terms of the acquisition were finalized on Friday, the Nov 24, 2014 9:23 AM CST
An ordinary day at work at an Oklahoma immigration law firm ended at lunchtime Monday for paralegal Jennifer McMinn-Shokat.
Someone came into the Farzaneh Law Firm and warned that a…
Nov 12, 2014 3:51 PM CST
The most highly populated county in Iowa has over 2,500 attorneys. Ringgold County has only two, and one of them would like to retire.
However, as James Pedersen and his…
Nov 3, 2014 10:00 AM CST
Is time running backward for today's law firm paralegals? These nonlawyer staffers were among the first to be hit with layoffs as the legal practice economy took a dive. According…
Nov 1, 2014 5:10 AM CDT
Dallas legal assistant Sarah Klein, who now handles filings and preliminary research, expects her responsibilities will soon include marketing as well. Photo by Terri Glanger.
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Like a number of other well-known law firms, Baker Botts has been rethinking the concept of office space.
A growing open office trend focuses on grouping employees and arranging work…
Sep 18, 2014 5:15 PM CDT
Baker & McKenzie has chosen Belfast as the location for a second back-office operations center.
The law firm expects the new office to employ about 120 professionals by the end…
Aug 28, 2014 12:22 PM CDT
A solo lawyer in East Orange, New Jersey, has been censured for failing to discover his paralegal’s wrongdoing.
The New Jersey Supreme Court censured lawyer Stephen Brown on July 28…
Aug 7, 2014 4:52 PM CDT
Dozens of paralegals hired in 2009 to combat a growing backlog of patent appeals were often idle because a hiring freeze halted hiring of judges to hear the cases, according…
Aug 1, 2014 12:53 PM CDT
A paralegal has filed a lawsuit claiming that his employer, a New Jersey law firm, failed to pay time-and-a-half for overtime as required by federal law.
The suit by Jason…
Jul 17, 2014 3:48 PM CDT
A former paralegal for a Missouri criminal defense attorney has taken a plea in a convoluted fake-bribery case linked both to a client of her ex-boss and a St. Louis…
Jul 2, 2014 3:50 PM CDT
A longtime secretary, paralegal and office manager for a since-disbarred California lawyer has been sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison for embezzling $327,000 from the firm…
Jun 18, 2014 5:30 PM CDT
Hourly pay rates for paralegals and other support staff rose last year at both law firms and corporate law departments, a survey says.
On average, base pay for paralegals went…
Jun 18, 2014 4:55 PM CDT