Joining a number of other well-known law firms that have announced plans to eliminate so-called lockstep pay, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr announced today that it will be moving…
Apparently implementing a strategic initiative announced earlier this year, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has announced a new three-tiered associate compensation plan.
Billed as offering flexibility to all associates and a…
Lawyers looking for continuing legal education credit can download a new app that allows them to find courses, listen to audio programs and access materials on their iPhone and iPod…
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker is facing a lawsuit over legal advice it gave to a private equity firm making a loan for the purchase of assets owned by troubled…
New associates headed for Cravath, Swaine & Moore this year were offered a sweet deferral deal: Take the year off in exchange for $80,000 along with benefits and student loan…
A prominent Minnesota lawyer slated to become president of the state bar association in another two years was jailed over the weekend in a teen sex case and is reportedly…
A Los Angeles lawyer has pleaded guilty and agreed to accept up to a five-year prison term in a tax shelter scheme that involved a $35 million offshore account.
Although most senior lawyers at the now-defunct Heller Ehrman firm apparently have yet to agree to a payout to the bankrupt law firm’s creditors, a group of 62 primarily junior…
After an investigation into the sudden death last month of a 37-year-old Russian lawyer jailed on tax evasion charges after pointing the finger at claimed government corruption, the Kremlin has…