A then-partner of Hogan Lovells “lost all reason” after falling for a Lebanese woman living in New York, spending well over $1 million on her during the course of an…
Looking at the current challenges in legal practice, I thought back over how we came to found our firm. In the late 1980s, a few colleagues began to discuss the…
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart has apparently settled a defamation suit against Maricopa County, Ariz., over claims in a termination letter that the…
A federal judge Spokane, Wash., has warned securities class action firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd and two of its partners that he intends to sanction them for claiming inaccurate…
A lawyer representing Dewey & LeBoeuf told a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday that the firm is negotiating a settlement to recover money from former partners.
Before its collapse, Dewey & LeBoeuf embraced a business strategy of growth through mergers and lateral hires, using pay guarantees to lure and keep star partners.
Dewey & LeBoeuf filed for bankruptcy on Monday, marking a formal end to the law firm formed in a 2007 merger between Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae.
In a ruling that could also affect similar claims related to the wind-down of Dewey & LeBoeuf, 10 law firms must account for profits they made for completing client matters…
If former New York governor and famed federal prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey were alive today, he might recognize the new normal facing law firms as being a very old normal,…
ABA Journal business of law reporter Rachel M. Zahorsky discusses with Beazley’s Brant Weidner and solo practitioner and legal ethics professor John Steele the challenges of this trend for outside law firms and what lawyers can do to protect themselves and their clients when faced with the increased disaggregation of legal work.
A lawyer experienced in defending clawback claims is expected to be tapped to represent a group of more than 50 former partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf, according to a published…