Four employment benefits partners from McDermott Will & Emery have moved to the Washington, D.C., office of Proskauer Rose, where they started work today.
The proportion of minority lawyers at the nation’s largest and most profitable law firms has increased from 10.4 percent in 2005 to 13.9 percent in 2009, but not every law…
Can a former lawyer collect contingency fees for work he did while he was still a member of the bar? That is the central question in an Arkansas case that…
A Connecticut plaintiffs firm has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle claims by two former clients that an ex-associate dropped the ball on their cases.
After doing a great job on a rush project, a relatively new associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges made a mistake. He didn’t check his e-mail.
Jim Woolery, a 40-year-old partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, has represented four Texas companies over the last five years in buyouts valued at more than $60…
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. paid $402.9 million to lawyers and advisers following the storied investment bank’s collapse in September 2008, according to a Manhattan bankruptcy court filing.
Critics say that attorney James Sokolove is more about advertising than law practice. And at least one or two justices on the Rhode Island Supreme Court seemingly may agree.
Creditors of Heller Ehrman may sue its accountant for allegedly failing to note red flags in its audit report on the law firm’s 2007 financials, according to a bankruptcy liquidation…
A second law firm has been named as a defendant in an investor lawsuit contending that a now-former partner of Proskauer Rose, Thomas Sjoblom, participated in a claimed $7 billion…
Faced with a tough choice between confessing their sins to the Internal Revenue Service or waiting for the federal enforcement agency potentially to pounce, a number of individuals are looking…
The FBI reportedly has raided the offices of a well-known attorney and accountant who often as served as a court-appointed trustee or receiver in cases in South Florida.
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