Chicago’s new mayor Rahm Emanuel has been talking about significant budget cuts, but his assistant corporation counsels’ jobs may be safe—the administration’s top lawyer, Stephen Patton, told the May 17, 2011 4:20 PM CDT
Merit pay for associates never really caught on, despite the high-profile status of a small group of law firms that announced they were abandoning lockstep compensation in 2009.
A litigation partner at Hogan Lovells in London has been ousted after the firm alleged he padded his expense accounts by more than 1 million pounds over a four-year period.
The Iowa Supreme Court has suspended a Dubuque lawyer accused of incompetent representation, client neglect and failure to maintain client trust accounts.
An embattled California attorney known as the tax lady says she is broke and is closing her law firm of 20 years, which at one point employed 200 people.
A postal inspector and a paralegal who allegedly had a secret romance while working on opposing sides during a lawyer’s mortgage fraud trial have been charged with perjury and obstruction…
Is Milbank Tweed’s plan to send its midlevel associates to Harvard for eight weeks of intensive business training just another public relations maneuver?
A former contract prosecutor for Warren Township has been awarded $1.4 million by a Morris County, N.J., jury in a whistle-blower suit. It contended she was fired after she complained…
Especially if you’re Mark Zuckerberg the Indiana bankruptcy attorney, not Mark Zuckerberg the famous founder of Facebook. The not-so-well-known Zuckerberg has recently had…
Yesterday, when Florida attorney Michael D. Walsh didn’t show up to represent the alleged ringleader in a Fort Lauderdale mortgage fraud trial, a federal judge scheduled a show-cause hearing today…
Chicago law firm Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein has authorized a receiver to pursue claims of up to $13 million against its malpractice insurers.
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