Updated: Do-it-yourself legal document service LegalZoom is readying for an initial public offering after raising $66 million from two venture capital firms.
LegalZoom raised the money from Kleiner Perkins and…
A $10.6 million award in what may be Virginia’s biggest wrongful death case is being challenged based on a prominent plaintiff lawyer’s claimed failure to disclose what the defense says…
A venerable Cincinnati-based law firm has planted its flag in Washington, D.C., bringing in the partners of the Santarelli Berman boutique to run the new Jul 22, 2011 10:37 AM CDT
Working several years ago at a law firm with a presence in Virginia, attorney Mary Binns-Davis saw firsthand how intensely the lawyers there felt about a two-week…
Fined $100 for failing to appear at a pretrial hearing in one county because he was attending a pretrial hearing in another county, a New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer appealed…
A motion to disqualify Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman from continuing to represent the plaintiff insurer in a hard-fought lawsuit against multiple hedge funds contends that the law firm contacted…
A four-lawyer white-collar defense team has jumped from Winston & Strawn to the Washington, D.C., office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, their new firm announced in a Jul 21, 2011 5:55 PM CDT
I was watching TV with my boys the other night. As usual, The Discovery Channel was our choice, and the show that we were watching was Surviving the Cut. The…
A personal injury law firm in Philadelphia has obtained an injunction temporarily barring a departing associate from practicing law at other law firms.
A lawyer working as a paralegal at a small Fort Lauderdale law firm is facing over 80 felony counts in a case concerning her alleged embezzlement from Jul 20, 2011 4:48 PM CDT
Harvard business professor Tom DeLong tells of a lawyer who made partner because he had the right skills and know-how. But when the lawyer was expected to bring in business,…
A former Illinois Worker’s Compensation Commission arbitrator and three lawyers are facing legal ethics charges concerning alleged misconduct characterized by the Legal Profession Blog as an…
A Texas law firm focusing on serving the needs of individuals and small businesses has been impersonated by a group of Internet scammers who are trying to trick people into…
Updated: A partner at Bryan Cave has sued a Dallas legal recruiter, contending that she lied to help persuade him to move from K&L Gates, where he was then a…