A Seyfarth Shaw partner who was demoted after a $30 million malpractice verdict that targeted his advice has sued his law firm in a complaint that derides its emphasis on…
Since being appointed to the state-court bench in 1995, a Southern California judge has presided over numerous high-profile cases and served in a series of leading administrative roles.
Last year, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz promoted six attorneys to partner. This year, despite being the most profitable firm in the country, it named only two new partners this…
The 38 first-year associates who start Monday at Haynes and Boone offices in Texas will do so at a $145,000 annual salary—although that may only be for the last month…
At an Association of Corporate Counsel meeting in October, legal marketing consultant Larry Bodine found that what corporate clients really want is for their outside firms to…
Law firms are laying off lawyers with an eye toward cost savings. But Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli says there are also costs associated with a “brain drain” and they…
The Florida Bar is investigating four lawyers from the dissolved South Florida firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler amid an investigation into an alleged $1 billion Ponzi scheme by name partner Scott…
An insurance company that not only refused its contractual duty to defend a policyholder but appealed a trial court’s ruling that the duty to defend was not a close case…
A 56-year-old Georgia securities law practitioner and another man have been criminally charged in federal court in North Carolina concerning an alleged interstate investment fraud.