Updated: Lawyers in two separate cases sought court intervention after discovering that jurors apparently posted Twitter messages while considering the fate of their clients.
A legal blog is characterizing layoffs at White & Case as a “trifecta” because the law firm has the highest number of lawyer layoffs, staff layoffs and total layoffs.
Employment litigation, in general, is increasing, and laid-off lawyers certainly should be able to recognize a possible cause of action as quickly as most potential plaintiffs.
In a move that may not elicit much pity from lower-paid lawyers, Dewey & LeBoeuf has chopped the pay of 66 partners over the past 15 months, axing it by…
A state anti-SLAPP law does not protect Sheppard Mullin from a former client’s suit alleging the law firm should be tossed from litigation because of a conflict of interest, a…
A spokeswoman for Dallas-based Winstead has confirmed that the law firm is canceling its summer associate program this year, but she offers few details.
A California appeals court ruling on the responsibilities of departing partners is causing headaches for partners at the dissolved law firm Heller Ehrman.
With news this afternoon of layoffs at two more well-known law firms, the total number of known attorney and staff terminations since Feb. 27 now tops 2,800.
As other major law partnerships reluctantly make layoffs, a BigLaw firm headquartered in the United Kingdom has come up with an unusual recession alternative.
Updated: There was a seeming lull yesterday in the ongoing deluge of law firm layoffs announcements. But as the clock ticked today, the pace began picking up significantly.