Recently, I caught up with a college classmate who is a successful corporate lawyer at a major law firm. Although happy, he mused, “I’m not a risk-averse person. Yet I…
A former partner at Holland & Knight can’t sue for age bias because he wasn’t an employee protected by state and city human rights laws, a New York judge has…
A 14-lawyer public finance practice group from Vinson & Elkins will be joining Bracewell & Giuliani in January as partners, their new firm announced today.
A California lawyer who says he was fired from his law firm because he couldn’t meet a quota requiring 3,000 billable hours a year has filed an employment bias suit…
In its first public response to a $5.5 million lawsuit filed by client Regal Real Estate over millions of dollars allegedly stolen by a former Crowell & Moring attorney from…
Perhaps it’s due to a perception by corporate clients that leading New York law firms, like Wall Street businesses, are raking in too much money in tough economic times.
Foley & Lardner received a perfect score of 100 last year in a “Corporate Equality Index” rewarding policies benefiting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
A lawyer, economist, actor, political speechwriter and journalist perhaps best-known for his role as a teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off will serve as the keynote speaker at the ABA…
Hughes Hubbard & Reed is acquiring a team of product liability lawyers in Kansas City, Mo., from Shook, Hardy & Bacon—along with one of Shook Hardy’s tobacco clients.
In what may be the first such case brought under a tough new Texas anti-barratry law, a former office manager has sued the two attorneys for whom she formerly worked,…