What’s left of San Francisco’s Heller Ehrman, which dissolved in November, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Former Heller partner Peter Benvenutti said...
Refugees of disgraced firm Dreier LLP’s Stamford, Connecticut office have reformed as Pastore Osterberg LLC. The co-founder of the former Dreier office, Joseph Pastore III, says...
Frisco’s Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLC will freeze associate and consultant salaries in 2009. Associates were notified by the following e-mail, sent...
Via LawCrossing.com: At year’s end, white-shoe law firms race to collect the bulk of the year’s client fees by the end of...
From LawCrossing.com: In recent months, when companies have been forced to succumb to mergers or bankruptcy in the wake of the economic crisis, lawyers...
Above the Law has announced its Law School Students of the Year, although the accolade is clearly a sarcastic one. The ATL...
In South Carolina, most court-appointed lawyers who represent indigent clients in criminal and civil cases won’t get paid by the state after...
An interesting story at the DC Examiner, about the results of a study from the National Association for Law Placement: Female partners in...
President-elect Barack Obama is attracting even more Washington lawyers to his incoming administration. Cassandra Butts, who met Obama at Harvard Law, will...
In Illinois (and it had to be Illinois), persons with records for non-violent misdemeanors and low-level drug & prostitution felonies can have their...
The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees is attempting to block a Polk County, Oregon District Attorney from sacking five deputy...
A new law school is opening at the University of California Irvine next fall. And it’s waiving tuition for three years to...
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