A 1,000-lawyer Chicago-based international firm is opening a Charlotte, N.C., office with six partners lured from a local firm, and expects to bring in a dozen more lawyers from the…
A New Hampshire lawyer has been censured for implying that he was a partner in a small law firm when in fact he simply shared office space with his colleagues.
After a disappointing financial year in 2007 and the departure of several well-known colleagues, three more partners of Heller Ehrman are exiting the firm to pursue opportunities elsewhere.
A claim for unpaid compensation by nine former partners of Boston firm Donovan Hatem has resulted in a court order barring a 2007 profit distribution until the dispute is resolved…
New York’s highest court has ruled that law firm partners sued for an accounting by a lawyer who leaves the firm are not protected from liability because they are organized…
Updated:: The SEC filed civil and criminal cases today against a partner at Mayer Brown, accusing him of helping one of the world’s biggest commodities brokerages hide from investors information…
A year-and-a-half after Chitwood Harley Harnes settled claims against four former lawyers who set up a rival securities litigation shop at a new Atlanta office of Motley Rice, the Chitwood…
Cynthia Jackson thought she was helping her law firm by keeping her nose to the grindstone. But then the Baker & McKenzie employment partner went to an out-of-office workshop and…
The chairman of Dilworth Paxson’s labor and employment practice was found at around 8 p.m. Thursday in a southwest Philadelphia street near his Acura, badly beaten.
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