A first-year associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton made an Excel reformatting error that mistakenly added 179 contracts to an agreement to buy Lehman Brothers assets, according to a…
After the failure of merger talks with Nixon Peabody, Thelen is reportedly asking that firms and others hire some of its practice groups or take over office space.
While many Heller Ehrman partners have found safe havens in other BigLaw firms, often bringing their substantial client bases with them, intellectual property litigators and insurance recovery groups appear to…
Reports of unhappy lawyers tell of problems with depression, alcoholism, divorce and suicide. But the reports appear to be exaggerated, if the Virginia School of Law’s 1990 graduating class is…
The chief judge of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blasted pro bono work as “anti-social” and “self-serving” at a Federalist Society meeting this week.
Minorities continue to be underrepresented in the partnership ranks of big law firms, with minority women faring the worst, according to a study by the National Association for Law Placement.
Hogan & Hartson is opening two new offices in Northern California with eight veterans from the dissolving Heller Ehrman law firm, including Heller’s former litigation practice…
Despite expectations of more litigation work because of the global financial crisis, the work hasn’t yet materialized. So one of the world’s biggest law firms has laid off 20 U.S.…
A longtime administrative assistant at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein who managed to escort a bomb suspect into a conference room had received safety training just a week before that…
Hays Ellisen is doing something in his practice he’s never been asked to do before: lead a multidisciplinary task force advising clients on the biggest federal intervention into private finance…
Updated: Before the Treasury Department chose Simpson Thacher on Friday to provide advice on acquiring ownership stakes in banks, it asked six law firms for proposals.…