Marc Dreier admits he had a lengthy track record of “cutting corners.” But it wasn’t until an apparent midlife crisis, precipitated by his divorce and a sense of failure, when…
Can this really be a law firm website? In an apparent recent makeover that is catching the attention of the legal community, the online persona of Ballard Spahr now features…
The head of the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice group in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker Botts has announced that he is leaving the firm to form a…
The general counsel for Citigroup says his in-house legal department has been battered by the economic downturn, leaving him with little sympathy for law firm arguments for premium fees.
Greenberg Traurig and three of its former intellectual property partners are facing a $100 million malpractice suit that clams the firm failed to properly prosecute patents and committed discovery misconduct.
Conventional wisdom says that lawyers who cut back on their hours at work, often to make time for their families, also reduce their opportunities to succeed as partners, says Cynthia…
Following a five-month trial, a New York jury is finally deliberating the criminal case against a son of socialite Brooke Astor and one of her attorneys. They are accused by…
For almost a decade, attorneys at Armstrong, Mitchell, Damiani and Zaccagnini in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County helped government and commercial clients persuade the county’s Board of Revision…
Having helped a double-amputee win the right to compete with able-bodied runners in track-and-field events on prosthetic legs, Dewey & LeBoeuf is now representing another South African athlete in a…
A high-school dropout with two children who went on to get her general educational development certificate, graduate from college and earn a juris doctor degree so that she could represent…
A 58-year-old South Carolina criminal defense attorney has been charged with solicitation of a felony for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill another attorney with whom he…
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