A celebrated Houston plaintiffs attorney was speeding at almost twice the legal limit on rain-slick pavement when he lost control of his SUV late last month, striking a tree and…
Young and “extremely overconfident,” William Marler took a leading role in his first food-borne illness case when he was only five years out of law school.
University of Illinois law professor Suja Thomas has launched a blog with her husband to motivate themselves and others to give away more money to charity.
When potential clients Google your law firm, do you want a paralegal’s MySpace page featuring “unprofessional interests and photos” to be the first hit they get?
A Chicago landlord is suing St. Louis and Missouri officials over a major law firm tenant that is allegedly being lured to another building with illegal taxpayer-funded incentives.
Too embarrassed to admit that he’d suffered financial reverses and make layoffs, a well-known Arkansas plaintiffs attorney instead admittedly stole $9.3 million from client trust funds he controlled to keep…
In the latest move by a market leader to eliminate the traditional lockstep progression toward partnership, Sutherland has reconfigured its 175 associates from year-by-year classes to three groups into which…
Law firms representing clients targeted by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaign fund, a published report says.
A company accused in a class action lawsuit of selling a dietary supplement that doesn’t live up to its memory claims has turned the tables on the plaintiffs’ firm, claiming…
A student at Cooley Law School disarmed a robber wielding a hunting rifle who had burst into a coffeehouse in Grand Rapids, Mich., in the early morning hours last Thursday.
Corrected: Aggravated by a critical New York Times article this week about a major client, the vice chairman of Washington, D.C.’s Cassidy & Associates lobbying firm struck back via social…
In a double whammy for some incoming associates who expected to start work at Seyfarth Shaw in January, the law firm has deferred half of the incoming class until October—and…