In less than three months, attorney Kenneth Ford has pursued some 22,000 copyright claims alleging peer-to-peer file-sharing violations, backing his Adult Copyright Company’s offer of “hardcore protection for hardcore content.”
A Phoenix lawyer well-known for his television commercials will be suspended for six months for failing to properly supervise lawyers who sometimes handled more than 500 cases at a time.
The nation’s 10 most prestigious law firms announced the promotion of 49 partners this year, but the firm in the No. 1 spot didn’t contribute to the total.
Matching the end-of-year moolah being paid by a number of other top BigLaw firms to associates for their work in 2010, Clifford Chance has announced that its United States associates…
A former partner of Winston & Strawn was both arrested today and sued today by the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that he had a role in a former…
Updated: A malpractice suit alleges a high-profile lawyer at Ungaretti & Harris authorized the destruction of documents despite a judge’s order requiring their preservation.
Marketing campaigns, strategic branding and well-written mission statements may do little to help a law firm’s reputation if its lawyers misbehave in the trenches.
In an ongoing legal ethics trial of six attorneys from a prominent Maine law firm, a former secretary there has now given her account of what was said after she…
News of another partner defection in the New York offices of Nixon Peabody follows an announcement earlier this week that the leadership of the firm is shifting to a Boston-based…
A 62-year-old Sioux Falls lawyer being tried on child pornography charges is telling a federal district court jury in South Dakota that he viewed the illicit images in order to…
A lawsuit filed by a bankruptcy administrator blames the demise of Coudert Brothers on a law firm that poached several of its lawyers, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
A law firm’s annual satirical newsletter takes aim at Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders for his recent controversial remarks about blacks. But its fake article, entitled “Sanders to Reach…
The term “legal outsourcing” often conjures up images of cut-rate offshore companies staffed by lawyers and support staffers laboring in anonymity on behalf of law firms.