Proskauer Rose’s Profits Fall 10% in 2008
Am Law 100 firm Proskauer Rose's profits per equity partner dropped 10% in 2008 to $1.4 million. Revenues increased marginally,…
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Much Shelist to Cut Partner, Associate Pay
Chicago's Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, a business-law firm with about 80 attorneys, will impose a 10% pay cut…
ATL: Kaye Scholer Lays Off At Least Five Attorneys
Tipsters tell Above the Law that at least five lawyers were laid off from Kaye Scholer on Friday, including some…
Judge Caps Sidley Austin’s Hourly Rate On Tribune Efforts
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Cary has ruled that lawyers for the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy case cannot charge hourly fees that…
Sidley Austin Attorney Moves To Constellation Energy
James L. Connaughton, former chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and former partner in the environmental practice…
Lawyer Quits Hudson Murder Case
The attorney who represented the man accused of killing Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew, has withdrawn as…
Defense Attorney Arrested For Taking Guns, Drugs As Payment
A criminal defense attorney in San Bernardino, California has been arrested on suspicion that he took drugs and guns as…
Update: Allen & Overy to Cut 450 Jobs
Last week we reported that Allen & Overy, the UK’s fourth-biggest law firm by revenue, would cut as many as…
Weil Gotshal Hires Former Bush Counsel
Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired former White House deputy counsel William Burck as a partner in its investigations &…
Dreier Firm Faces Eviction
Save for a skeleton staff authorized to wind up the affairs of the now-bankrupt Dreier LLP, attorneys remaining at the…
Patton Boggs Adopts New Compensation System
Washington, DC-based Patton Boggs is adopting a new compensation plan for partners, retooling a long-held "eat-what-you-kill" system to reward partner…
Update: Thompson Hine Cuts Positions, Pay
Cleveland's Thompson Hine will impose an across-the-board $17,500 base salary reduction on associates and other non-partner lawyers. Those lawyers will…