The market for outsourced legal work is booming in India. While lawyers there are doing a lot of routine work, they are also handling some interesting legal matters, including work…
A well-publicized mass e-mail by a fired associate at Paul Hastings is raising questions about the proper way for law firms to handle news of lawyer dismissals and other negative…
In an ongoing effort to streamline internal costs, one of the world’s biggest law firms is now focusing on what it pays to help feed lawyers and staff while they…
Once upon a time, associates who were let go by their law firms tiptoed quietly out the door, perhaps after several months spent “working” at their desks to find another…
A former first-year associate at Bingham McCutchen complains that the law firm didn’t do enough to investigate alleged druggings of attorneys by a former employee and/or attendee of firm events…
A Colorado personal injury lawyer who was ordered by a jury to pay a former client $145,000 says the verdict represents a “big victory” for him, because the plaintiff was…
For religious attorneys, regardless of their particular faith, law practice has a different dimension. In addition to trying to do a good job for their clients, many say they also…
Just when many BigLaw firms reportedly have more need to borrow, because of a slowing economy, banks are scrutinizing their lending to law firms more closely.