Polsinelli touts ‘meteoric rise’ in revenue ranking as it adds 20-plus partners from competitor

Polsinelli is opening a Philadelphia office with more than 20 partners from Holland & Knight.

Jul 24, 2024 8:50 AM CDT

Can partners afford to leave their BigLaw firms? Some discourage departures by withholding cash

Some law firms trying to hold on to their partners are using money to discourage departures.

Jul 24, 2024 8:49 AM CDT

Former BigLaw partner settles defamation suit against social media influencer

A former Greenberg Traurig partner has reached a settlement with a social media influencer he accused of posting defamatory videos seeking to falsely depict the lawyer as an abusive husband and spouse.

Jul 8, 2024 1:22 PM CDT

$20M for top rainmaking lawyers? Kirkland’s poaching started a trend

Eight-figure pay packages and bidding wars for lawyers are increasingly common in BigLaw.

Jul 2, 2024 10:18 AM CDT

This partner has billed an average of about 12 hours per weekday since May 2023

Sullivan & Cromwell has sought about $200 million as debtor’s counsel in the bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX based on more than 168,000 hours clocked by lawyers and staffers.

Jul 1, 2024 3:28 PM CDT

Law firm and lawyer in ‘quiet quit’ dispute drop their litigation

Dueling lawsuits between the law firm Napoli Shkolnik and a fired partner accused of "quiet quitting" have been dropped following private mediation.

Jun 6, 2024 1:01 PM CDT

Lawyers are returning to office with ‘startling enthusiasm,’ survey says

A majority of surveyed legal professionals are satisfied with their law firms’ attendance policies, a “rather shocking turnaround” from discussions about the issue immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the Thomson Reuters Institute.

Jun 5, 2024 9:06 AM CDT

BigLaw partner was demoted and later told to hang up his spurs, age-bias suit alleges

Fox Rothschild no longer has a mandatory retirement age of 72. But the law firm nonetheless discriminates against older equity partners, a lawsuit alleges, by demoting them, transitioning their role as billing attorney to younger partners, and making them sign renewable one-year contracts.

Jun 3, 2024 1:18 PM CDT

Baker McKenzie partner drops suit seeking IRS documents on partnership scrutiny

A Baker McKenzie tax partner has dropped his lawsuit seeking documents from the Internal Revenue Service about its tougher policies for auditing partnerships.

May 23, 2024 1:57 PM CDT

How ghostwritten Supreme Court briefs are used as a strategy

Metadata offers a clue that a New York consumer fraud attorney who signed a U.S. Supreme Court brief was not the actual author.

May 21, 2024 12:02 PM CDT

BigLaw firm will pay up to $20M to top partners, an amount needed ‘to be at the big table’

Top partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett are expected to earn more than $20 million this year after the law firm adjusted its compensation structure.

May 20, 2024 3:32 PM CDT

Former BigLaw partner failed to pay taxes on about $3.4M in income, plea agreement says

A former partner at Husch Blackwell and Dykema Law has reached an agreement to plead guilty to failing to pay taxes on about $3.4 million in income.

May 15, 2024 9:11 AM CDT

Lawyer whose firm sued Boeing finds emergency slide that fell from company’s plane near his home

An emergency slide that detached from a Boeing 767 plane on Friday washed up on the beach near the New York home of a lawyer whose law firm has sued the aerospace company.

May 2, 2024 9:30 AM CDT

Clark Hill was ‘duped by an obvious scam,’ costing its client $1.1M, suit alleges

Hackers posing as a client persuaded law firm Clark Hill to send $1.1 million from a lawsuit settlement to the wrong bank account, according to an April 22 suit.

Apr 30, 2024 11:57 AM CDT

With addition of 17 lawyers, Baker McKenzie picks up most of this firm’s corporate team

Baker McKenzie has added 17 corporate and tax lawyers from Munger, Tolles & Olson, including nine partners from the Los Angeles law firm.

Apr 24, 2024 3:02 PM CDT