Thirty-six partners at Dechert are taking pay cuts, but reports that the chairman’s reduced draw amounts to $1 million are wrong, a law firm spokeswoman says.
It may not be whether women lawyers have children but how much they focus on their families that accounts for a widely reported gender gap between the salaries and partnership…
Ward Bower of consulting firm Altman Weil has been predicting some big changes for large law firms that will affect the bottom line for many associates.
Once a high-flying partner at the helm of a 250-attorney New York law firm, Marc Dreier pleaded guilty today in federal court in Manhattan to a fraud scheme for which…
Lawyer Marc Dreier will plead guilty this afternoon to charges he sold $700 million in phony securities to investors, according to his lawyer, Gerald Shargel. Less…
A prominent Arkansas plaintiffs securities lawyer has reportedly come up short on about $9.3 million that was supposed to be paid last month from a fund he controls to clients…
Updated: In a stunning raid on a rival firm, Dechert announced today that it is opening a new office in Russia with all five of the partners from Chadbourne &…
The Kaye Scholer bankruptcy partner who made headlines when she kicked her squabbling kids out of the car probably won’t be charged with child endangerment.
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