When higher-ups at a Long Island elder law and estate planning firm realized that more than half the firm’s staff didn’t have their own affairs in order, managers took action.
H. Thomas Wells Jr., who officially begins his term as ABA president Monday, announced the launch of two new association initiatives during a morning news conference in New York City,…
Among those who inhabit Second Life—a virtual world on the Internet where individuals interact through electronic alter egos known as avatars, is the SL Bar Association,…
With historic Ellis Island as the backdrop, outgoing Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section chair Peter Bennett kicked off the section’s meeting Friday night by reinforcing his commitment to diversity.
Technology has made the world a smaller place. It’s made it possible to talk to someone from around the world over a computer, to buy a product from another country,…
A nine-lawyer team has defected from the West Palm Beach office of Florida’s Becker & Poliakoff, citing mismanagement, and has opened a new office there for…
The number of top women lawyers at Fortune 500 companies has risen to 92 from 44 when the Minority Corporate Counsel Association first started counting nearly 10 years ago.
Barnes & Thornburg is eliminating its summer associate program in Chicago, at least for next year, because it’s now so easy to hire first-year associates.
A bankruptcy trustee contends that the law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell failed to prevent the founder of a now-defunct Atlanta investment firm from embezzling from his clients.
Updated: A New York judge has tossed several counts of a lawsuit filed by a former associate who claimed Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe reneged on a promise to make him…
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