Brooklyn pharmaceutical giant Pfizer recently announced that it will acquire rival Wyeth for $68 billion. Pfizer will cut more than 8,000 jobs...
A former lawyer, who was disbarred in the 1980s taking client escrow funds, has been charged with defrauding investors of out of...
Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law will need to cut about 2% from the current academic year’s budget. Dean JoAnne...
From Slate via Legal Geekery, a new way for law students to pay off their loan debt: Most people know about the...
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has threatened seven departing London partners with legal action for breaching their partnership agreement. The partners, Karl Clowry,...
Two Pennsylvania judges have plead guilty to fraud charges, after taking $2.6 million in kickbacks in return for placing juvenile offenders in...
Miami’s Greenberg Traurig has announced that CEO Cesar Alvarez will hand over the reins to President Richard A. Rosenbaum next year, after...
National labor and employment law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has launched a Boston office this week, to be led...
Illinois’ SimmonsCooper today announced the addition of seven new partners to the firm. The new partners are Nicholas Angelides, Brian Cooke, Amy...
Pennsylvania Democratic State Senator Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. has joined the Philadelphia office of Archer & Greiner as of counsel. Farnese, who...
London-based Herbert Smith’s highest-paid fee earner took home almost £1.4 million (US $1.95 million) last year, the firm’s LLP accounts for 2008...
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, of Dallas and Chicago, has extended offers to the bulk of the partnership at New York intellectual...
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