Updated: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has said she has “zero tolerance for immature sniping and sharp litigation practices,” yet “that behavior continues” in a case involving Walgreens and its former law firm.
David Boies, the co-founder of Boies Schiller Flexner, is planning to leave his role as chairman at the end of next year, a time when he expects the law firm to be in better financial shape following a wave of lawyer exits and a decline in revenue.
At least two lawyers who apparently used artificial intelligence chatbots to write legal documents ended up losing their jobs after the output included phony case citations.
Law firm revenue increased 4.6% through the third quarter of the year, thanks to a hike in billing rates, according to a survey of more that 120 firms by Wells Fargo’s Legal Specialty Group.
A former partner at Texas bankruptcy law firm Jackson Walker denied any current relationship with a bankruptcy judge when the firm questioned her in March 2021, the firm said in a court filing Monday.
A Columbia Law School professor has been banned from depositions in a trademark case after a former employee who was set to be deposed alleged that his post-traumatic stress disorder partly stemmed partly from the professor’s actions.
Legal technology company CS Disco has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with vLex company Fastcase to use the company’s large law library for “end-to-end” software for the practice of law.
Two energy companies allege that Winston & Strawn bungled two intertwined contracts involving the purchase of Southern California oil and gas wells, leading the two clients to give up a 25% equity stake in their businesses while receiving nothing in return.
A second Polsinelli defendant is denying sexual harassment claims in a lawsuit filed by a former international corporate attorney at the law firm who claimed that she was “repeatedly hounded” for after-hours drinks and hotel meetings.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore has “quietly created” a new partnership tier for nonequity partners who are paid salaries and don’t share in the profits, Bloomberg Law reports.
Milbank announced Tuesday that it is matching last year’s year-end bonuses while also giving annual raises of $10,000 to its associates beginning Jan. 1.
Law firms eased up on hiring first-year associates in the third quarter to curtail expense growth, according to a new Thomson Reuters report published Monday.
Native American female lawyers often feel isolated and exhausted, and they have endured pervasive bias and harassment, according to a new report published by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and the National Native American Bar Association on Thursday.
