A federal appeals court has refused to toss a lawsuit by a 50-lawyer personal injury law firm that claims another two-lawyer law firm used its copyrighted website content.
In a firmwide voice mail today that provided what amounts to good news in the current economy, the managing partner of Perkins Coie announced that there will be an average…
When attorney Joseph Santo pointed at him in a Brooklyn courtroom, 17-year-old Victor Hernandez says, he didn’t think much about it as he went up to stand beside the lawyer.
Upholding a preliminary injunction issued by a federal court in western Washington state, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has told two onetime counsel for Hagens Berman…
Disbarred after he stole $300,000 from his former law firm—and another $200,000 from a subsequent employer, a former New Jersey tax attorney has now admitted that he stole $267,000 from…
Accelerating an earlier trend, the economic debacle of the past year or so is making it difficult for a number of 60-something attorneys who might otherwise be thinking of retirement…
Insufficient efforts are being made to pursue accounts receivable for the dissolving Heller Ehrman, former employees complain in a leaked letter (PDF) to the government lawyer in…
A federal judge has upheld most of the new restrictions on advertising by Louisiana lawyers, but struck down two rules regulating Internet advertising.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman said Louisana’s…
Eager to cement client bonds and bring in new business during an economic downturn that has hurt its traditional banking clientele, a London-based megafirm is following a strategy from the…
Looking ahead to 2011, when non-lawyers will be permitted to invest in United Kingdom law firms, some private equity funds are talking about purchasing as much as a 20 percent…
The New York law firm Anderson Kill & Olick has raised more than $15,000 for charity by charging lawyers and staffers to wear jeans to work on Fridays.