Sleep isn’t as restful as it used to be for 49-year-old “Frances,” a law firm employee who worries that she and her boyfriend could lose their jobs due to the…
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll has learned some lessons from a disappointing period in which profits per equity partner plummeted from about $545,000, in 2007, to $415,000, in 2008.
Los Angeles-based law firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith sees at least one new resumé every day, and the firm is attracting graduates of top law schools—despite its $85,000 starting…
A federal judge has refused to order lawyers for Hewlett-Packard Co. to pay about $12 million in attorney fees in a hard-fought patent infringement case.
Are members of the Millennial generation self-entitled and lazy? Or are they energetic, aware and forging a new path so they won’t have to sacrifice their families for a career?
A bankruptcy trustee is citing competitive disadvantage in a motion to seal a malpractice settlement in a $200 million suit filed against McDermott, Will & Emery.
Joining a few other major firms that have recently made similar announcements—and perhaps going beyond their programs—Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has announced a sweeping plan to reconfigure the firm’s relationship…
The law firm paradigm is transforming. The billable hour is dead. The legal landscape as we know it will continue to shift in the coming months, consultants and industry experts…
After layoffs earlier this month of 35 attorneys and 85 staff, a major intellectual property boutique is now extending the pain to its incoming class of new associates.