Lawyers for plaintiffs challenging the local funding system for Illinois schools say a 1996 state supreme court ruling doesn’t bar their suit because of new mandates for education.
According to solo practitioner David Koller, even a bad marketing idea may help his fledgling legal practice. The intent, he says, is to generate referrals.
An 18-partner group will be leaving the Berlin office of Hogan & Hartson as the United States-based law firm merges May 1 with United Kingdom-based Lovells.
“There’s as much chance of BigLaw dying as there is a return to normal,” says Ralph Baxter, chairman and CEO of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, summing the collective thoughts of…
After 40 years of marriage, the wife of attorney Allen Schwartz thought she knew her husband. So she was stunned when he came home one summer day in 2001 and…
New England law firm Pepe & Hazard has merged with New Jersey-based McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter and taken on the name of the larger, 245-lawyer firm.
Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay Calumet Park $3.2 million following news that a now-former partner of the firm is believed to have billed the suburban Chicago municipality for over…
An associate who claimed in a lawsuit that he suffered a breakdown partly because of “abusive conduct” by a partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold included “scandalous” and irrelevant…
Attorney General Eric Holder is defending lawyers who represent unpopular clients in a speech delivered just two weeks after a conservative group criticized Justice Department lawyers who previously defended Guantanamo…
There was good news from Cravath Swaine & Moore reported last week: The New York City firm saw its income increase in 2009 without resorting to the attorney roster reduction…