Latham & Watkins is opening a new office in Houston with three transactional energy lawyers. They include Michael Dillard, who formerly headed the practice area at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer…
Planned budget cuts for Los Angeles courts over the next four years could trigger $30 billion in lost output for the local economy and result in 150,000 lost jobs, a…
After 20 years of practice at Latham & Watkins, intellectual property litigator Kenneth Fitzgerald says he figured he was at a point in his career where he had two choices:…
A NALP commission is recommending that law firms push back the date for summer associate job offers until mid-January of the second year of law school, giving employers more time…
In a seemingly routine situation, an interviewer for the Pinellas-Pasco Public Defender’s Office repeatedly signed in to visit an inmate at a local Florida jail on behalf of his legal…
In the latest move in an ongoing wave of pay cuts among a number of well-known law firms, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has confirmed that it is cutting the starting…
Associate level distinctions and compensation based on class year, a standard at lockstep firms, are quickly being eliminated as more law firms move toward classifying lawyers by skill sets and…
An associate dean at Thomas M. Cooley Law School blames U.S. News & World Report for a drop in the percentage of black and Mexican-American students entering law schools in…