In December 2011, Dewey & LeBoeuf chair Steven Davis used a calm, matter-of-fact tone in a phone interview about his firm's uncharacteristically aggressive streak of lateral partner hiring during the…
Losing their BigLaw jobs five years ago during a mass layoff in the midst of the Great Recession turned out to be beneficial for two former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher…
News of a planned mass lateral move of three-quarters of Bingham McCutchen’s partners to Morgan Lewis & Bockius has quickly been followed by news of layoffs at Bingham’s global services…
Successfully defending Halliburton Co. in litigation related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in pink slips for 17 attorneys and six staff members at a Texas law firm.
Apparently angry about the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens that has been in the news recently, two assistant public defenders in Broward County, Florida, seeming used inflammatory language…
Fired last fall after he complained about a huge caseload and a hot, moldy office, among other issues, a former assistant public defender has now fired back.
A foreclosure law firm is facing eviction from its offices in Woburn, Massachusetts, after laying off the majority of its lawyers, paralegals and other staffers.
A total of six in-house lawyers were fired by General Motors following an investigation by an outside law firm of the automaker’s handling of ignition-switch issues over the past decade,…