Lawyers aren’t expected to practice year after year without raising their fees. And circumstances, of course, can change unexpectedly. So it’s often permissible for an attorney to change legal fee…
Accused by the California attorney general of misleading clients into paying to participate in mass joinder litigation against major banks that isn’t likely to benefit them, at least one attorney…
Two Vinson & Elkins partners who have collectively worked at the firm for 59 years will replace managing partner Joseph Dilg, who will resign from his leadership post at the…
The interactive sessions of Pepper Hamilton’s summer associate interviews are exactly what they sound like, says hiring committee chairman Michael P. Subak. Done during callbacks, the discussions are not meant…
When the City University of New York School of Law established an incubator program in 2007 to help new law graduates establish themselves as solo practitioners, it was reportedly the…
After a standoff that lasted much of the day today in a legal district of downtown Sydney, authorities in the major Australian city rescued a 12-year-old girl who reportedly had…
Gumption (and an innate sense of business development) has propelled Goodwin Procter associate Nithya Das into the spotlight among clients and colleagues and within the venture capital community.
If you are contemplating going solo but have little money to spend on the practice, don’t despair. A small budget means you won’t be wasting your money on things you…
A major West Coast business litigation boutique today announced that it is opening a Washington, D.C., office. It will initially be staffed largely by two practice leaders and another partner…
Less than a year after planting its flag in Washington, D.C., with the expectation of establishing a 20-attorney office there in the foreseeable future, Fox Rothschild is halfway to that…
More than 40 law firms gave out spring bonuses to associates this year after Sullivan & Cromwell set the standard with a decision in January to pay between $2,500 and…
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