Am Law 100 firm Proskauer Rose’s profits per equity partner dropped 10% in 2008 to $1.4 million. Revenues increased marginally, by 1%,...
Chicago’s Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, a business-law firm with about 80 attorneys, will impose a 10% pay cut for partners...
Tipsters tell Above the Law that at least five lawyers were laid off from Kaye Scholer on Friday, including some first- and...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Cary has ruled that lawyers for the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy case cannot charge hourly fees that exceed four...
James L. Connaughton, former chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and former partner in the environmental practice group at...
The attorney who represented the man accused of killing Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew, has withdrawn as the counsel...
A criminal defense attorney in San Bernardino, California has been arrested on suspicion that he took drugs and guns as compensation for...
Last week we reported that Allen & Overy, the UK’s fourth-biggest law firm by revenue, would cut as many as 150 lawyers,...
Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired former White House deputy counsel William Burck as a partner in its investigations & criminal defense...
Save for a skeleton staff authorized to wind up the affairs of the now-bankrupt Dreier LLP, attorneys remaining at the firm’s midtown...
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 cooperation and...
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 be able...
