The percentage of lawyers working part-time at law firms declined slightly in 2011, the first drop since the National Association for Law Placement began compiling the figures in 1994.
This week, we noted a Washington Post column in which the columnist chronicles the phenomenon of “midnight moms” who find themselves pulling late-night work…
A major law firm in Canada has developed an innovative buddy program to help women lawyers stay connected to their careers while they are on maternity leave.
A lawyer who left a BigLaw partnership to stay home with her two young daughters returned to the same law firm and helped create her new position there.
A plan by the Department of Justice to close regional antitrust offices in Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas and Philadelphia likely will result in de facto layoffs of veteran antitrust attorneys.
A Florida title attorney who is playing a prominent role in the fight against mortgage foreclosure fraud by lenders has taken a plea in a federal case over an alleged…