Amidst the latest news of law firm layoffs and salary restructuring announcements, a Chicago-based business law firm has temporarily imposed a 10-percent pay cut on partners and associates.
A California appeals court has overturned a malpractice judgment against Seyfarth Shaw that was won by a fitness instructor who sued the firm over a missed deadline.
Following a seven-hour standoff, a suspect who allegedly initially held an attorney and office staff hostage, after he entered a Hutchinson, Kan., law office armed with a .25-caliber handgun, was…
A post on Above the Law this morning reported that an unidentified tipster claimed to have overheard two top lawyers at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman discussing…
A prominent Democratic political fundraiser has been convicted by a Texas jury on 14 of the 22 counts he faced in an unusual criminal trial for allegedly practicing law when…
A top London-based international law firm has announced that, in response to unprecedented market conditions, it plans to cut up to 250 lawyers (including perhaps 47 partners) and…
The Proskauer Rose lawyer who disavowed everything he had told authorities about an investment firm affiliated with billionaire Robert Allen Stanford was acting under a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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