Global law firm Proskauer announced it has opened an office in Beijing. In so doing, the firm significantly expands its global capabilities...
Washington State’s Perkins Coie, which cut 12 attorneys and 26 staff in April, has hired seven intellectual property attorneys away from Proskauer...
The estate of Heller Ehrman, the San Francisco-based law firm that imploded spectacularly in November 2008, may sue Washington DC’s Covington &...
Former employees of San Francisco’s defunct Heller Ehrman, which declared bankruptcy in December, are suing 179 former partners for $32 million. The...
A California appeals court ruling from 1984 that a firm can sue a departing partner for profits lost from open cases. Six...
Dissolving Thacher Proffitt & Wood is pursuing its former first-year associates over money provided for bar expenses. The firm’s dissolution committee and...
The Recorder takes a look at Cupertino, California intellectual property boutique Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder, which last fall cut seven associates,...
Bankrupt law firm Heller Ehrman paid out more than $7 million to 35 departing or retiring partners in 2008. The departures led...
Philadelphia’s Dechert has become the latest Am Law 100 firm to announce a decline in revenues and profits for 2008. Profits per...
Chicago’s Sidley Austin saw revenue grow by 7% in 2008, while profits increased 4%. The firm brought in $1.489 billion in revenue,...
We reported last month that former Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll partner Michael Hausfeld was ousted from the firm. Now The BLT...
The WSJ Law Blog summarizes the findings in a report by The American Lawyer about the enormous rise in laterals over the...
