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Two Thirds of Law Firms Expect Lower 2009 Revenues; 51% to Terminate Staff

Two-thirds of all US law firms expect lower 2009 revenues, although the economic harm to date has mostly hurt large…

Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the 160-year-old New York-based law firm, will close forever. The subprime crisis slashed demand for its…

Today's top stories: Several states are halting or delaying jury trails, to save the money they would spend to pay…

A Phoenix, Arizona area law firm is offering the "perfect gift" for people who drink during the holidays. The Maasen…

From Page One of today's Los Angeles Times: The economic storm has come to this: Justice is being delayed or…

From LawCrossing.com: A new law firm has been launched in Lower Manhattan. Neiger LLP will focus on debt reduction, creditors'…

The list of candidates for Barack Obama's Department of Justice picks get shorter every day. Rumor says that David Odgen…

From the WSJ Law Blog: Irving Picard, who last week was tapped to liquidate the now-infamous Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities…

We posted last week about the University of Michigan Law School student who tried her hand at prostitution, and was…

The Wisconsin Law Journal discusses how busy the last month of the year can be for lawyers: ...because firms the…

Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has announced its 2008 associate bonuses: The firm will be paying bonuses…

Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has announced it will hire 100 lawyers (NYT says 40) away from New York CIty's…