Cuts in associate pay are being blamed on the recession. But even when the market rebounds, consultants and law firm partners aren’t expecting associate pay to rebound with it.
In a staggered series of moves that began in early November, in order to ease the transfer of clients, a team of four lawyers and two patent agents have departed…
A second attorney who formerly worked at Ropes & Gray has been criminally charged in a federal case related to the alleged Galleon Group insider-trading scheme.
Heller Ehrman leaders were grappling with declining revenues at the same time they reassured partners that the firm was in good health, according to creditors’ exhibits in the firm’s bankruptcy…
A Florida ethics opinion says judges may post comments and other materials on social networking sites, but they shouldn’t friend lawyers who may appear before them.
Just when it might have seemed that alleged wrongdoing related to the spectacular downfall of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler could not become more bizarre, a billionaire convicted sex offender has filed…
Engaged by a timber company in 2005 to follow up on another law firm’s work and prepare a corporate litigation matter for trial, Debevoise & Plimpton promised in a representation…
Warnings about potential security risks have spurred one mid-sized law firm to abandon its iPhones, to the disappointment of one of its lawyers who complained.