A vanilla importer has sued Day Pitney, alleging legal malpractice in a dispute with the company’s insurer over coverage for a tainted shipment of vanilla beans.
Somehow, attorney Robert Wone was murdered in the upscale Washington, D.C., townhome where he was visiting friends one sweltering summer night in 2006.
The lawyer who founded SCOTUSblog was in big demand after the announcement that Sonia Sotomayor had been tapped as the next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The former Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer who represented both Brooke Astor and her son testified yesterday that he was “enraged” to learn he had been fired and the son designated…
In an extraordinary April 20 hearing transcript documenting the beginning of the end of Gene Cauley’s enviable story of professional success, a federal judge calls for an investigation of the…
The global chief of litigation for Clifford Chance has announced his resignation after the law firm’s decision to restructure its litigation and dispute resolution practice in the United States.
The former chair of Sullivan & Cromwell’s trusts and estates practice rejected suggestions by a prosecutor yesterday that he had divided loyalties when he represented both Brooke Astor and her…
Pittsburgh-based Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott has hired 38 lateral lawyers this year, bringing on five labor lawyers from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in its latest acquisition.
Management changes may be in the works at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, after President Barack Obama yesterday nominated the firm’s chief executive officer, John Roos, as…
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