Long known as a top defense firm for insurance-coverage matters, including the defense of attorneys in legal malpractice claims, Chicago-based Hinshaw & Culbertson in more recent years has branded itself…
The Burton Awards for Legal Achievement were launched 17 years ago primarily to recognize good legal writing. But over the years, the awards have expanded, with a variety of…
Expanding a parental leave program for associates and senior attorneys that was already generous, compared to other Chicago-based BigLaw firms, Winston & Strawn will now provide up to 20 weeks…
A new survey of law firm leaders reveals that partners at a majority of the firms don’t have enough work, and demand for legal services is lagging behind pre-recession levels.
A federal judge in Tacoma, Washington, has blocked Mozilla’s attempt to learn whether a security vulnerability in its Firefox browser helped a government investigation of child pornography.
A name partner at California law firm Layfield & Barrett isn’t putting up with negative reviews of the firm posted by authors claiming to be current and former employees.
Got a good book of business, but worried about cash flow? It isn’t simply a traditional bank to which a law firm might look for help in such a situation…
Law firm revenue grew 5.8 percent in the year’s first quarter, the strongest growth since the first quarter of 2008, according to a survey of 176 law firms by Citi…
Plaintiffs suing Los Angeles lawyer Thomas Girardi will get access to documents showing his personal net worth after arguing he made his finances a matter of public interest through his…
DLA Piper is laying off up to 200 support staffers in the United Kingdom and is moving most of the positions to a Warsaw back-office operations center.
Ernie Svenson--aka well-known blogger Ernie the Attorney--was an early evangelist for what he calls The Paperless Chase. The basic premise: "Anything you can do with paper, you can do more with PDF. Way more."