When Seyfarth Shaw first brought in a consultant to train attorneys in a new efficiency concept known as process management, the law firm got considerably more detail than it bargained…
A New York immigration lawyer has been barred from appearing again before the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals due to missed deadlines that resulted in the…
In-house corporate counsel predict in a new survey that they will not be paying an increase in billing rates to outside law firms next year, a first in the survey’s…
The proportion of minority lawyers at the nation’s largest and most profitable law firms has increased from 10.4 percent in 2005 to 13.9 percent in 2009, but not every law…
Williams & Connolly has sued former client IDT for $2 million, saying the telecommunications company paid only one-third of a $3 million legal tab for representing a subsidiary in a…
Saleswoman Kathy Lawlor got into a dispute with her employer four years ago over a big incoming commission, and she said the company fired her when she wouldn’t agree to…
Can a former lawyer collect contingency fees for work he did while he was still a member of the bar? That is the central question in an Arkansas case that…
A Connecticut plaintiffs firm has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle claims by two former clients that an ex-associate dropped the ball on their cases.
After doing a great job on a rush project, a relatively new associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges made a mistake. He didn’t check his e-mail.
Too few women lawyers are attaining partnerships, and the reason can be traced to unconscious bias affecting everything from assignments to job evaluations, according to a law firm partner and…
An initial public offering for the Burford Capital litigation-financing fund has raised $130 million through the sale of 80 million shares on London’s junior exchange.
California signed into a law this week legislation that will make it easier for officials to protect witnesses from gangs able to access witness information on the Web.