Associates who were late entering billable time at Morgan Lewis & Bockius apparently got a reminder they won’t be able to ignore—in the form of lower bonus checks.
As it has become increasingly common for attorneys to move from law firm to law firm during their professional careers, a growing number of lawyers have urged that a legal…
Women and minorities are still underrepresented on the state trial and appellate court bench, regardless whether the judges are elected or appointed to their positions.
For economic reasons, the largest law firm in Maine laid off seven lawyers and 14 staff members last week in its Portland, Augusta and Portsmouth, N.H., offices, but is looking…
A recent law graduate in California is worried that the state’s delay in dispatching tax refunds could do further damage to the economy—and to her job search.
Indicted lawyer Marc Dreier may have been the only equity partner at his law firm, but that doesn’t necessarily mean departing nonequity partners are free…
A legal consultant speaking to marketing partners last week bandied about the words “fundamental changes” and “fundamental shift” to describe how the law firm business model will likely change in…
The intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson says it has fired 49 lawyers since November, and some of the dismissals were for financial reasons.
Few lawyers today have a practice as diverse as Abraham Lincoln’s was in the years before the Civil War. But it was a caseload that still should sound familiar to…