A Howrey lawyer who headed an internal investigation of backdating at McAfee partly pinned the blame on contract lawyers when he told a judge yesterday why five corporate e-mails weren’t…
Since law firms with unpaid legal fees are treated like any other creditor, the top London legal shops that have been advising Lehman Brothers in corporate matters could lose hefty…
Lawyers at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell finally got a chance to survey the damage first-hand when their offices reopened this morning at JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston.
Ara Ayles Hardig, an eighth-year appellate associate at Vinson & Elkins, had a tree fall through her Houston home during Hurricane Ike, but she counts herself among the lucky ones.
Hurricane Ike has left many Houston residents without power and child care, and the city’s lawyers are no exception. At Vinson & Elkins, lawyers coped by bringing their children to…
After the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy, some were nervous about spending time in and around very tall buildings, including the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago.
As Heller Erhman loses lawyers and potential merger partners, a legal blog is asking whether the law firm’s problems were created by its own self-imposed term limits.
Kim Koopersmith will join the meager ranks of female managing partners at America’s largest law firms when she takes on the job for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer…
A shortage of work is not a problem this week for those in charge of performing client conflict checks at law firms representing major corporations worried about the turmoil on…
A major Canadian law firm has caught the attention of a local newspaper with a recent ad that features a business-suited “law student” with long blond hair.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges had a stroke of good fortune when its premier bankruptcy partner, Harvey Miller, returned last year after a five-year hiatus with the firm.