Oops. If you’re a law firm managing partner trying to secretly shop some of your colleagues to a competing law firm, it’s best not to leave documents from a PowerPoint…
“There was no extortion. No lavish vacations. No gambling debts. No drug addiction. Instead, a former partner in a major Maine law firm stole more than $300,000 simply because he…
With the departure of two San Francisco Bay area attorneys for other law firms, the total number of partners who have left Heller Ehrman this year now reportedly tallies at…
Some law firms are apparently being caught “flat-footed” when one of their lawyers files suit to protect his or her own patented invention, according to an article in Sep 3, 2008 4:19 PM CDT
After 25 years of periodic dispute between a Greeneville, Tenn., law firm and a local Greene County judge, the situation has heated up to a point where the state supreme…
Some advice on how to avoid job search mistakes sounds like common sense: Make sure there are no typos in your resume or cover letter. Get an early start on…
A New York judge has approved a deal that allows former securities class action lawyer Melvyn Weiss to keep future fees from some cases he worked on at his former…
A Philadelphia intellectual property boutique is being acquired by a larger firm, and the outgoing managing partner attributes his firm’s dissolution to an unusual problem: No one wanted his job.
The co-chair of Mayer Brown’s financial restructuring and bankruptcy practice group is leaving the firm, effective immediately, to join Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Following word today that the third name partner in four months has announced plans to leave Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, the firm has announced that it will shorten…
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