After months of losses, the number of jobs in the legal sector managed to increase in May. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’...
BP and the two other major culprits in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill—Transocean Ltd. and Haliburton Co.—have retained their legal teams,...
The American Association for Justice has named Ronald F. Motley, co-founder of one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ litigation firms, the recipient...
Karen P. Hewitt, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, has agreed to join Jones Day as a partner in...
A study from Robert Half Legal reveals 25 percent of in-house counsel surveyed plan to decrease its work with outside firms in...
McKool Smith client Marcel Fashion earned a cool $300,000, which includes $280,000 in punitive damages, from Liz Claiborne and Lucky Brand Dungarees...
A two-year study of jury selections in eight Southern states found the exclusion of blacks and other minorities remains a widespread practice...
The head of McDermott Will & Emery’s U.S. communications practice, Shirley S. Fujimoto, is among four partners that have left the firm...
Results of a survey released Monday show nearly two-thirds of Americans are unable to name a single member of the U.S. Supreme Court...
U.S.–based Kirkland Ellis has bolstered its London office with the addition of two highly-regarded private equity partners in a move Legalweek is...
Another three partners have left Nixon Peabody for rival DLA Piper, which brings the number of such moves in recent weeks to...
A closer look at the nation’s top-200 grossing law firms as compiled by The American Lawyer shows the Second Hundred top-grossing law...
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