A New York judge has approved a deal that allows former securities class action lawyer Melvyn Weiss to keep future fees from some cases he worked on at his former…
A Philadelphia intellectual property boutique is being acquired by a larger firm, and the outgoing managing partner attributes his firm’s dissolution to an unusual problem: No one wanted his job.
The co-chair of Mayer Brown’s financial restructuring and bankruptcy practice group is leaving the firm, effective immediately, to join Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Following word today that the third name partner in four months has announced plans to leave Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, the firm has announced that it will shorten…
In a struggling economy, reduced levels of legal work and rising costs tempt law firm partners to cut associates. But the money they save by doing so now may result…
Convicted of second-degree murder by a California jury after her 140-pound dog mauled a neighbor to death in their apartment building’s shared hallway, former San Francisco attorney Marjorie Knoller later…
A newspaper report of a Chicago city official who allegedly got a generator delivered to his door by the electric company while thousands of other residents went without power during…
Four energy and project finance partners have joined the continuing brain drain from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, although two former partners have announced plans to return.
A popped collar button on a Seattle lawyer’s dress shirt resulted in a sartorial instruction from Judge Randall Rader at the conclusion of a recent argument before a federal appeals…
Fasten your seat belts. A difficult economy has cut partner profits and associate attrition, while increasing expenses for major U.S. law firms, creating “a dramatically different economic environment from the…
After 16 years as a partner at Hawaii’s largest law firm, Greg Kim was ready for a change. Even though he had developed a technique of doing much of his…
A dozen lawyers from Taylor Wessing’s French office have given notice that they intend to move to Nixon Peabody, despite their initial concerns about the workload, according to a motion…
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