US Securities and Exchange Chairman Mary Schapiro has named David Becker, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, as chief legal...
In December we reported that the sudden firing of Duquesne University School of Law Dean Donald Guter had provoked controversy on the...
Apparently at least one law firm is growing as it rakes in the dough despite the recession. From The Blog of Legal...
Miami’s Greenberg Traurig has announced the addition of top securities litigation attorneys Paul R. Bessette, Michael J. Biles and Jesse Z. Weiss....
Clifford Chance announced today a joint effort with the Georgetown University Law Center to establish the Clifford Chance International Public Interest Summer...
The ABA Journal notes that an unprecedented wave of law firm layoffs is leading to a second wave of ex-employee lawsuits. The...
These are the weekend’s top stories: Hinshaw & Culbertson, a Chicago-based firm with about 490 attorneys, cut 11 attorneys and 17 staff...
Chicago’s Sonnenschein reports gross revenue was $492 million for 2008, up nearly 3%. Revenue per lawyer also increased about 3%, to $809,000....
Tipsters are telling Above the Law that two intellectual property partners at Latham & Watkins are leaving, and setting up shop at...
Am Law 100 firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher reports that gross revenue rose 5.4% to $957 million in 2008. Gibson Dunn’s profits...
The legal services industry continued to slash payrolls in January with a loss of 1,300 jobs, according to the US Department of...
How much do law firms save by laying off lawyers and staff? The National Law Journal asked around the find out. Law...
