Corrected: Winston & Strawn has represented Wyeth in at least one case claiming the company’s diet drug fen-phen caused health problems. Now a junior partner at the law firm has…
Today’s associates were part of a generation raised with lots of affirmation and rewards, making job losses all the more difficult, according to a psychologist who has studied lawyer personalities.
Sometimes a reasonable attorney fee is no attorney fee, a federal judge said when attorney Rudy Barack sought attorney fees after winning $3,500 for a paralegal seeking overtime pay from…
News earlier today that Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is cutting 55 attorneys and 100 staff was soon followed by word of layoffs at two other well-known…
To paraphrase the words of a popular song, there must be 50 ways to leave your law firm, and an ever-increasing list of law firm layoffs is offering many attorneys…
The owner of a Florida dental technician business has sued Greenberg Traurig for malicious prosecution after the state supreme court sided with her in an eviction case.
A law professor who banned laptops in his first-year criminal law class surveyed his students about their reaction—and found it was generally positive.
Big law firms are being more careful with staff-wide memos these days. They ought to. Anything that might prove juicy if stuck with a fork is likely to be leaked—as…
The elephant in the room got its full conversational due Tuesday at a symposium concerning the practical use of empirical research on the legal profession. That would be the economy.…