Earlier this week, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that bankrupt law firms cannot claim profits from a client relationships after...
Today Am Law 100 firm Nixon Peabody announced the layoffs of 56 attorneys and staff. Prudent management of our business requires that...
Defunct law firm Thelen LLP is telling courts it couldn’t possibly pay its employees accrued vacation, or give 60 days’ notice of...
The WSJ Law Blog summarizes the findings in a report by The American Lawyer about the enormous rise in laterals over the...
Chicago’s Seyfarth Shaw has added a team of three patent litigation attorneys to the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s Los...
Pittsburgh’s Reed Smith reports a 10% increase in gross revenue to $980 million in 2008, on the back of significant lateral expansion....
According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs between December...
I really don’t think we can post enough “former Thelen lawyers find jobs” stories. Drinker Biddle & Reath’s Washington, DC office has...
Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the 160-year-old New York-based law firm, will close forever. Â The subprime crisis slashed demand for its structured-finance practice,...
