Attorneys are often told they can make a name for themselves by writing scholarly articles or impressing new acquaintances at business-oriented events. But if your work is good enough, it…
A Texas judge has refused to dismiss a claim that Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr committed fraud by overbilling for the defense of McAfee’s former chief executive officer.
Updated: Two e-mails were dispatched to Heller Ehrman employees last Friday. One informed the recipients they were being asked to continue working at the law firm, for now. The other…
Heller Ehrman’s dissolution plan makes optimistic predictions about its ability to collect accounts receivable and may overstate its assets, say analysts who are divided on whether the firm will be…
Nice work if you can get it: In a fee application filed yesterday in federal bankruptcy court in New York, one of the nation’s most renowned corporate bankruptcy law practice…
Lightening the mood on another day of economic gloom, a London law firm co-hosted a breakfast meeting yesterday featuring a poet and edible words on frosted cupcakes.
As clients are slower to pay their legal bills, law firms are choosing among difficult options. They are borrowing more money, reducing partner draws or paying out less money in…
Summer associates surveyed by American Lawyer were relatively happy with their experiences, giving their firms an average score of 4.541 on a 1-5 scale. They earned an average of about…
The Los Angeles managing partner at Heller Ehrman began looking for jobs at other law firms this summer because of merger talks that would have ended her career at the…
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft may have laid off 131 lawyers earlier this year, but it is still hiring some lawyers away from other law firms in practice areas such as…