Sued last month by a former staff attorney who claimed Covington & Burling maintained its staff attorney ranks as a ghetto for minority attorneys, the law firm didn’t hesitate to…
A federal appeals court has ruled a female partner doesn’t have to arbitrate her sexual discrimination claim against Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, despite an arbitration clause in the firm’s bylaws.
At least eight law firms have opened in the Los Angeles area since the economy soured last year, spurred in some cases by the chance to merge with other firms…
The 40-lawyer Miami law firm Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin is losing two of its name partners and a dozen other lawyers, but it’s not imploding, according to founding partner…
Updated: A new survey of lawyers at law firms and corporations found that 65 percent don’t anticipate any more thinning in their ranks within the next year.
It appears that the worst might possibly be over, both for the struggling global economy and the ever-increasing number of major law firms that have been laying off support staff,…
Observers predicted earlier that as many as 100 of the lawyers working at dissolving WolfBlock might wind up at another Philadelphia-based law firm, Cozen O’Connor.
A London-based megafirm has made a second round of associate layoffs in its New York office, and it is pushing back the start date for its incoming class of associates.