Lawyers at Weil Gotshal & Manges combined shopping and networking last week during a private shopping party with clients and friends at upscale clothing store Henri Bendel in New York.
Katie Grassini initially played a key role in one of her father’s personal injury trials long before she went to law school. When Lawrence Grassini needed an assistant to help…
The general counsel of a California-based genetic products manufacturer is leaving, along with three in-house Affymetrix patent lawyers, to join Dewey & LeBoeuf.
As he listened recently to yet another panel of managing partners lament the lack of women in the pipeline to promote to partner in their law firms, a blogger had…
Women clearly have come a long way in the legal profession in recent decades. But perhaps nowhere is the professional difference between the sexes more pronounced than in issues of…
Rasheedah Phillips was a single mom at 14. She dropped out of school for six months, and her grades plummeted. But, unlike nearly 70 percent of the teens who become…
The former general counsel of Florida Gulf Coast University sued her former client in federal court in April, alleging systemic employment discrimination and violation of…
Ever the conservative gadfly, attorney and political activist Phyllis Schlafly, didn’t hesitate to say what she thought when law professors, among others, complained about a planned award of an honorary…
Five Dallas partners from well-known law firms, four of them women, have formed a new partnership housed in a 12,000-square-foot office space on the 41st floor of the Renaissance Tower.
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