Merger talks are reportedly taking place between Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Chadbourne & Parke.
A merger would create a law firm with more than 900 lawyers and more than…
Sep 24, 2015 8:58 AM CDT
Professor Tanina Rostain has made a 180-degree turn in her work on the ethics of lawyering. For nearly 20 years she pushed to reform organizational pressures that increasingly had lawyers…
Sep 23, 2015 9:00 AM CDT
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A lot of public sector lawyers talk a good game when it comes to promoting transparency and open government. For V. David Zvenyach, former general counsel for the Council of…
Sep 22, 2015 9:00 AM CDT
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Legal research company Fastcase has acquired the competing service Loislaw from Wolters Kluwer.
In a Monday post on his blog LawSites, Bob Ambrogi reported that the transaction is an…
Sep 21, 2015 2:30 PM CDT
Many might see life as a software developer in San Francisco as a job with a future (if not a fortune). But it wasn’t enough for Michael Hollander.
“I enjoyed…
Sep 17, 2015 9:00 AM CDT
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Male lawyers seeking to play a more active role in the lives of their very young children have been helping to blaze a trail toward expanded parental leave policies.
Reflecting…
Sep 16, 2015 9:15 AM CDT
If you lived in far northwest Mohave County, Arizona, it might take more than an hour to get to the nearest court building in Colorado City, and you’d have to…
Sep 16, 2015 8:02 AM CDT
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In 2013, Nikki Zeichner was juggling two endeavors.
As a Brooklyn criminal defense lawyer, she was representing a prisoner who had been denied parole nine times and was up for…
Sep 15, 2015 9:20 AM CDT
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The rumors were true. BakerHostetler will officially move to a single-tier partnership starting early next year.
The firm announced Monday that it would eliminate its current two-tiered system…
Sep 14, 2015 11:15 AM CDT
A gay lawyer’s retaliation lawsuit against his former law firm and a potential employer has been dismissed in a one-page order that doesn’t indicate whether the case settled.
U.S. District…
Sep 11, 2015 5:45 AM CDT
Holland & Knight has launched a pro bono program to help lawyers in financial need who are facing ethics charges in Illinois.
The program, called the “Attorney Defense Initiative,” is…
Sep 10, 2015 11:33 AM CDT
Several law enforcement agencies are testing a new technology that collects the residue from fingerprints to learn whether the person is male or female and whether he or she has…
Sep 10, 2015 7:36 AM CDT
Apple, Google and Microsoft want to reassure customers that they are fighting the U.S. government’s access to data, resulting in conflicts with the U.S. Justice Department.
The New York Times…
Sep 9, 2015 5:45 AM CDT
In the end, Jeffrey Carr’s retirement from the legal industry lasted a shade under one year—or as Cher calls it, “an eternity.”
When we last checked in with Carr,…
Sep 8, 2015 11:29 AM CDT
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A Texas lawyer has been indicted in alleged conspiracy targeting law firms, businesses and lonely singles.
The lawyer, Perry Don Cortese of Little River, Texas, was charged along with a…
Sep 8, 2015 9:01 AM CDT