After worrying for two years about an $18 million jury verdict, partners of Fillenwarth Dennerline Groth & Towe were presumably delighted to ante up $50,000 to the Indiana Department of…
One of Pittsburgh’s biggest law firms is now facing increased scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Labor because of an immigration law seminar it held last year.
A real estate listing service that focuses on for-sale-by-owner properties is now offering to home sellers what it says is a nationwide first—an opportunity to purchase prepaid legal services for…
After falling behind law firm competitors jockeying for top profits and prestige, Chicago-based Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal is reportedly plotting its return to the A-list.
In a massive public service effort to help residents in danger of losing their homes, key judges and legal professionals in Maryland are calling on lawyers in the state to…
It was a great Independence Day gift. On July 3, Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, “the Eliot Ness of Iraq,” learned that the Department of Homeland Security had granted him asylum.
Striking back at a former partner who last month filed a defamation claim over a law firm press release that he had been fired for “extremely inappropriate personal conduct,” Kasowitz…
Lawyers increasingly are becoming like luxury goods to many would-be clients, an expensive article that they can’t afford or don’t want to make a priority.
Recent testimony by an ex-attorney in Florida and her former paralegal, office manager and best friend sheds considerable light on why their law firm had trouble managing its money and…
Chicago-based Jenner & Block has taken top honors this year in American Lawyer’s annual pro bono survey, which was discussed in an article in the July…
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