Moscow authorities raided the Moscow offices of DLA Piper and White & Case yesterday, reportedly as part of a criminal fraud investigation into the redevelopment of the Moscow Hotel.
Greg Bachand is 60 years old and a first-year associate. But that’s not the only unusual aspect of his new job situation: He’s working in his 35-year-old daughter’s Connecticut law…
A lawyer who claims he was the paramour identified as “RS” on a blog of sexual exploits has been warned by a judge to back off on an ethics allegation…
As many major law firms based in the United States and London are shrinking their attorney rosters in reaction to a global recession, their counterparts in India are doing just…
In another signpost of the sea change that seems to be occurring in the legal profession, a major United Kingdom newspaper is predicting that more than 10,000 lawyers there could…
When one of London’s most elite law partnerships recently decided it had to let 14 solicitor trainees go instead of giving them permanent jobs, partners at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer had…
Updated: Convicted in 2005 of perjury and fraud for misrepresenting himself as a licensed California attorney, Harold Goldstein was released from federal prison about a month ago.
Former Mayer Brown vice-chairman Paul Maher is launching a new London office for Greenberg Traurig that reportedly plans to challenge some BigLaw traditions.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore is trying to cope with a larger than expected incoming associate class by offering $80,000 to any lawyers who agree to stay away for a year.
Lawyers who want to build relationships with business clients need to take extra steps that make them feel valued, whether it’s visiting their offices or providing a free legal session…
The Internal Revenue Service, in a notice posted this week, is proposing that employers assign 25 percent of their employees’ yearly phone expenses as a…