Bill Landau can retire now. The Massachusetts lawyer was ready to do so three years ago, in his early 70s, but one thing held him back—his partner and father, Reuben…
A well-known lawyer and information technology expert is publishing a sequel to his decade-old book, The Future of Law, and the future he now foresees for many traditional attorneys isn’t…
As outsourcing American legal work to foreign attorneys in India becomes more and more common, U.S. lawyers need to give some thought to potential ethical pitfalls.
A malpractice suit has been filed against Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and two of the law firm’s partners by a former client over its handling of a Washington, D.C., zoning…
A New York partner of Baker & McKenzie has been indicted in a federal securities fraud case involving alleged corporate kickbacks, along with executives and two individual investors.
In a groundbreaking move envisioning a not-so-distant time when non-attorneys can invest in law firms, a group has taken on the task of assigning a monetary value to the world’s…
A 23-year-old model who filed suit yesterday against her 54-year-old billionaire ex-boyfriend, over “bizarre and unnatural sex acts” allegedly performed at his 51,000-square-foot New York City mansion when she was…
It’s obvious that the current law firm system of hiring and training attorneys isn’t doing a very good job of providing opportunities for minorities. So the obvious answer is to…
A New York law firm can still enforce an arbitration clause in its partnership agreement, even after it litigates other issues on an emergency basis, a state appellate court has…
Despite all the complaints about how difficult it can be to practice law today, can it be that attorneys aren’t as depressed as a lot of other folks? A recent…