A four-lawyer financial transactions and restructuring team from Pryor Cashman led by partner Ronald Sarubbi is moving to Perkins Coie, where Sarubbi will head the corporate trust practice.
While synchronicity, security and data breach concerns are justified in these days of working on desktop, laptop, mobile phone and tablet, lawyers can reasonably protect sensitive data by taking a…
In an increasingly connected world, lawyers at a coffee shop, a hotel or the airport may jump online to check email, get some work done or send a tweet. But…
Whether fixed, value-based, discounted, phased or blended, successful alternative fee arrangements require greater trust and communication with clients and a closer look at revenue tracking and partner compensation systems.
New technology will drive the future of law back to the customer service era of your grandfather. However, clients are being aided by Facebook, Twitter, weblogs and reviews posted on…
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has won dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed the law firm discriminated against older secretaries in 2008 layoffs.
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican Study Committee’s plan to “eliminate the Legal Services Corporation” in the nation’s fiscal year 2013 budget is “remarkably shortsighted,” says…
Reversing a lower court ruling that imposed penalties on an out-of-state law firm for collecting fees on dishonored checks in excess of what is allowed under the Arkansas Deceptive Trade…
A lawyer who listened to Tuesday’s arguments over President Obama’s health care initiative in an overflow room of the the U.S. Supreme Court was posting live tweets, through an intermediary,…
When structural change happens, we like to look for individual agency – find someone who made a mistake and blame them. But Dewey’s problems are more indicative of basic changes…
The former partner in charge of the Los Angeles office of Weitz & Luxenberg has filed suit against the personal injury law firm in California state court, contending that it…
A renowned London-based international legal partnership and the law firm with the largest attorney roster in Singapore have called off their merger talks.