With a new managing partner at the helm and advice from a well-known legal consultant, Denver-based Holme Roberts & Owen expects to reverse a downsizing trend that saw the firm’s…
Ambulance-chasing lawyers can be forced to pay a $10,000 penalty to each client they sign up in violation of the rules on attorney solicitation, under a new anti-barratry law that…
Imposing a more severe sanction than sought by the Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, the state supreme court has indefinitely suspended a lawyer convicted of his fourth drunken-driving offense…
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement, who made headlines two months ago when he resigned his BigLaw partnership on principle and moved to a small firm, says he has no regrets…
A Minnesota criminal defense lawyer is now representing, in a first-degree murder case, a man who is accused of killing a former client of the attorney.
Starting on its home turf in Arkansas, but with plans to expand the program, Wal-Mart’s legal department is providing free legal services for patients at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
On June 2, Epsilon general counsel Jeanette Fitzgerald sat before a congressional panel gathered to address the future of data-security legislation in the wake of a security breach that potentially…
A few law bloggers managed to score invites and field test Google+, the company’s new Facebook-style social network—and most liked what they saw. “Google+ appears to…
Some law firms have embraced blogging with a vengeance. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has 25 blogs, for example. It is followed by Hunton & Williams, with 23; and Reed…