With 23 years of legal experience, Laurie-Allen Shumaker thought she would soon find another job when she was laid off in January 2009 from her position as a shopping center…
As hot weather encourages everyone to shed some clothing, it’s easier than usual for young women in law offices to become fashion victims. (Men have the advantage of a customary…
Bracewell & Giuliani has expanded its footprint, taking a giant step from its established territory in Texas and New York to plant its flag in Seattle.
As plans progressed to build a new $200 million family court building in Philadelphia, the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court brought in a lawyer who had formerly served…
The city attorney for Chattanooga, Tenn., is under fire, after a state auditor’s report criticized him for contracting out some $15,000 per month in secretarial and legal support work from…
After 17 years in practice at Perkins Coie, partner David Symes is leaving the big-name Pacific Northwest law firm to open a new Portland, Ore., office for fast-growing Ogletree Deakins…
The departure of two more partners has put a troubled South Florida law firm below the minimum number of partners required by its bank credit line, raising the possibility that…
Earlier this year, the future looked bright for Mary Ann Giebink. In addition to a Sioux Falls law practice, the South Dakota lawyer was a Democratic candidate for the state…
In the latest chapter of an ongoing saga about trusted employees who allegedly have stolen from law firms throughout the country, a former bookkeeper and office manager for a Chicago…
A Florida judge began reading 100 pages of instructions at 9 a.m. today to the jury trying a now-disbarred real estate attorney in a case involving the alleged misappropriation of…
Stringent new Florida Bar rules on attorney online advertising have ignited a firestorm, attracting criticism from a sweeping array of groups including not only law firms that do business in…
Megafirm Clifford Chance edged out Linklaters as the United Kingdom’s top-grossing law firm in 2009, reporting about $1.8 billion in revenue for the fiscal year that ended April 30, 2010.…