Unbeknownst to her California law firm, a longtime office administrator gave herself a $30,000 annual pay raise and better benefits by altering records on its computer, stealing some $1.3 million…
A lawyer’s ad for traffic court representation displayed on the website for the court clerk in Chicago’s Cook County is drawing lots of attention—from fellow practitioners.
A New York-based intellectual property boutique allegedly agreed that Raj Davé would be repaid the $92,000 in “working capital” he gave Darby & Darby while practicing there as a nonequity…
Updated: Citing a “lack of professionalism” in Reed Smith’s late cancellation of scheduled on-campus interviews this year, the dean of Fordham University School of Law has banned the Pittsburgh-based international…
Partners of a Tennessee law firm apparently didn’t immediately notice that a bookkeeper allegedly was issuing herself five-figure checks from an escrow account.
Some smaller and suburban law firms in the Minneapolis area are doing better than their big firm counterparts—and location, practice areas, flexibility and lower rates are some of the reasons…
Law firm Dorsey & Whitney decided it didn’t need the huge expense of a corporate hospitality tent this year at the PGA championship outside Minneapolis.
The former chairman of Heller Ehrman is denying allegations by unsecured creditors that the firm distributed $9 million to partners above and beyond profits for 2007.
Updated: Partners in the failed law firm Heller Ehrman will have to cough up $106 million in money distributed to partners in 2007 and 2008 if unsecured creditors in the…