Salary figures released last week are bad news for large law firms that pay high starting salaries as well as for new lawyers seeking high paying jobs, according to two…
At My Shingle, Washington, D.C., solo Carolyn Elefant takes various state bar associations to task for their uniformly similar recommendations that lawyers get their clients’…
When the Association of Corporate Counsel announced its list of Value Champions last month, certain characteristics, such as the ability to keep costs down and alternative billing…
Former partners of a dissolving New York law firm are embroiled in a legal battle that has one side claiming the other is using the offices rent free at the…
Updated: Arizona’s Maricopa County says it has identified 299 billing errors by its former law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart—and they may be “only the tip of the…
When attorney Mikel D. Jones, obtained a multimillion-dollar credit line from a New York venture capital firm in 2006, he agreed to use the money on legitimate law firm expenses.
Weil Gotshal & Manges has asked a federal bankruptcy judge in Manhattan to OK more than $430 million in fees for representing Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in a record-breaking bankruptcy…
It may be nearly 100 degrees outside. But for those working inside at law firms, among other businesses, the challenge can be keeping warm rather than keeping cool.
A four-year suspension was an appropriate punishment for a longtime partner who misappropriated legal fees that should have gone to his Tennessee law firm, the state’s highest court has determined.