The chairman of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld emphasized plans for an expansion in the San Francisco office as news reports focused on lawyer defections from the firm.
In standard practice, a lawyer can use 20,000 to 100,000 pages of copy paper annually. So one focus of “green” law firms seeking to reduce wasted resources is cutting that…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has opted for disciplinary probation rather than a license suspension in the case of three lawyers who shared legal fees with office employees.
Visa applications are now being processed under an expanded program to help Iraqis who are in danger because they were employed by the U.S. government.
Ropes & Gray has hired its first e-discovery counsel, making it one of a handful of law firms that have a lawyer on board who focuses exclusively on the issue.
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