Levi Strauss & Co. chopped perhaps 20 percent off its outside counsel costs by having Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Townsend and Townsend and Crew handle all of its global…
Bloomberg Law is still a work in progress, despite an army of lawyers hired to prepare headnotes, tag cases and create a law digest for its new high-end legal research…
Updated: Today was the day that a Pennsylvania state-court judge was supposed to conduct a hearing on a former client’s claim that Cravath Swaine & Moore is conflicted out of…
In the latest twist in an unusual criminal case against a law firm, New York’s top court has reinstated felony charges brought against Silverman & Taylor over alleged factual misstatements…
Amidst the mortgage meltdown, a stunning number of lawyers reportedly may be taking advantage of desperate homeowners by accepting thousands of dollars in fees from individuals while doing little or…
Updated: White & Case is scrambling to shore up its offices in London and the Middle East after losing 13 partners to Latham & Watkins and a 14th to Allen…
Law firms that offered deferred associates up to $80,000 to pursue public interest work may be in for a rude awakening: The future talent pool is happy and unwilling to…
A former partner says the U.K. law firm Eversheds was neither swift nor decisive after a colleague questioned the commitment of a job candidate, a new mother.
Bingham McCutchen is paying new lawyers in London 100,000 pounds—a salary that is the highest of any U.S. law firm and more than the amount paid by the United Kingdom’s…
Little known in BigLaw circles, a 16-attorney South Florida law firm has hired the managing partner of Greenberg Traurig’s office in Washington, D.C., to open its new…
Updated: As a paralegal was sentenced to a 46-month federal prison term this week for stealing $1.7 million from the Connecticut law firm for which she formerly worked, new indictments…