Management changes may be in the works at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, after President Barack Obama yesterday nominated the firm’s chief executive officer, John Roos, as…
Law firms that are deferring start dates for incoming first-year associates but paying them substantial sums during the interim months are essentially buying options on these associates, points out an…
The federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act has been a pitfall for unwary law firms sued on a variety of theories. But Wolpoff & Abramson may have been particularly unlucky…
An unidentified summer associate in the Chicago office of Mayer Brown may have swine flu, and another is showing possible symptoms of the H1N1 virus, although this has not yet…
Two Connecticut personal injury lawyers are suing Google, contending that the Internet search engine improperly sold advertising rights concerning their law firm name to a competitor.
Some practice areas are clearly more lucrative than others. So if an intellectual property associate, for instance, is being billed out at a higher rate than a law school classmate…
Jones Day is freezing staff pay through June 30, 2010 and eliminating “year-end payments” and discretionary bonuses in 2009 in response to the dismal economy.
A New York appeals court has stayed a malpractice suit against Greenberg Traurig and the chairman of its New York office to allow the facts to be developed first in…
Over defense objections, the former head of trusts and estates at Sullivan & Cromwell testified yesterday about Brooke Astor’s embarrassment over her son’s marriage to a preacher’s ex-wife.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor forced a Washington, D.C., law firm to apologize for a partner’s questions during a recruiting dinner in her third…