Observers are openly wondering how long an unidentified first-year associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will hold his job, after reading a jaw-dropping e-mail thread. It began with…
Even when a lawyer is on vacation, he or she should still routinely be available by e-mail, a London partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton tells his partners in…
Morris Manning & Martin has hired a five-lawyer group from Bryan Cave. It will establish a new timberlands investment and forest products practice group for the southeastern regional law firm,…
Last Wednesday, Perkins Coie announced with some fanfare that politically connected Denver lawyer Willie Shepherd was leaving the firm he co-founded and chaired to become a partner in Perkins Coie’s…
Lawyers from Keker & Van Nest and a new law firm of defecting lawyers have made polite public statements about the split, but beneath the surface lies bitterness over a…
Updated: Two top mergers and acquisitions partners at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom are joining Kirkland & Ellis, the first time any M&A partner at the larger firm has…
A Dechert press release last week announcing the acquisition of all five partners from the Moscow office of Chadbourne & Parke apparently was premature.
A lawyer for a former Mayer Brown partner started outlining his client’s defense yesterday in a federal trial that began in New York this week over what prosecutors describe as…
A New York lawyer suing to evict Donald Trump’s company from several Manhattan co-op apartment units it is renting is chortling over the real estate mogul’s lease.
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