Chicago’s Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP will pay associates bonuses… We are pleased to announce that Associate productivity bonuses for 2008 range from $10,000...
A federal judge, citing excessive hours and unreasonably high rates, ordered a 20% reduction in fees for a law firm helping to...
Am Law has announced their Litigation Boutique of the Year Winner: Chicago’s Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP. No hourly fees,...
As we reported last week, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal hired 100 lawyers from the dissolving Thacher Proffitt & Wood. This week, the...
Sidley Austin lawyers are asking as much as $1,100 an hour for bankruptcy work on Tribune Company, surpassing the rates charged by...
In Illinois (and it had to be Illinois), persons with records for non-violent misdemeanors and low-level drug & prostitution felonies can have their...
Top aides to President-elect Barack Obama are lawyering up, in anticipation of questioning in the probe of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s alleged attempt...
Edward Ryan, a former partner at Holland & Knight’s Chicago office, has been charged with inflating legal fees on a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. The Illinois...
Bradley Lerman, a partner at Chicago’s Winston & Strawn who has represented Illinois Governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan, is leaving the...
Time Magazine has published its Person of the Year issue, and has shocked the world by choosing the come-from-behind candidate, Barack Obama</sarcasm>....
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a 75-attorney firm specializing in commercial real estate with offices in Los Angeles and Chicago, has announced that...
Two-thirds of all US law firms expect lower 2009 revenues, although the economic harm to date has mostly hurt large firms, according to...
