The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 decided last week that its final recommendations to the association’s policy-making House of Delegates will focus on measures…
A few lawyers and paralegals at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s New York headquarters made it to work on Monday, even though the office was officially closed for Hurricane Sandy. One…
Law firms, take note. In-house counsel don’t like it when one of your lawyers is glued to a BlackBerry during a meeting. Or when one of your lawyers submits a…
Updated: As what is expected to be an epic storm sweeps into the East Coast from Florida to Canada and could hit the Northeast especially hard, courts and law firms…
The top 10 law firms in the United Kingdom bring in almost half of the income earned by the country’s 100 largest legal shops, and could get an even bigger…
Dan DiPietro, chairman of the Law Firm Group at Citi Private Bank, is keeping an eye on law firms that could be in trouble and putting them on a watch…
“Drinking Tonight? Know Your Rights,” read wristbands handed out at a Texas bar, with the phone number for drunk-driving defense lawyer Stephen Hamilton.
A National Association of Women Lawyers survey (PDF) of the country’s largest law firms recently found that 70 percent of the businesses’ staff lawyers were female. However, women…