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Linklaters’ Top-Paid Lawyer Earned “Satisfactory” £3.4 Million in 2008

Linklaters LLP, the second-largest London law firm by revenue, paid its top earner £3.4 million pounds ($5 million in real…

Winston-Salem, NC's Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice has decided to freeze salary increases for all attorneys through the first half…

A judge in US District Court has sided with [Law Firm Name Deleted] in a bizarre and widely ridiculed trademark…

A former law student Robert A. McDonald was sentenced today to a year in a halfway house for possessing child…

Timothy Pohl will leave Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to become a managing director in the restructuring group at…

Former Bush Administration Solicitor General Paul Clement is returning to the Washington, DC office of Atlanta's King & Spalding. "We…

From the AE Feldman Blog: Executive search firm, A.E. Feldman, says the surge in bankruptcies is creating opportunities for candidates…

Palo Alto, California-based social networking web site Facebook is looking for private US law firms willing to help resolve an…

General Motors has hired Harvey Miller of the New York law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges to help the beleaguered…

We reported yesterday that embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was no longer using Chicago's Winston Strawn to defend him against…

Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a 75-attorney real estate firm with offices in Los Angeles and Chicago, is laying off eight…

Over 70% percent of large law firms surveyed raised their billing rates this year, with one firm charging more than…