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Anti-virus Firm Doesn’t Want to Pay WilmerHale for “Luxury Hotel Rooms, Limousines and Bar Tabs”

Anti-virus Firm Doesn’t Want to Pay WilmerHale for “Luxury Hotel Rooms, Limousines and Bar Tabs”

In more overbilling news, Wilmer Pickering Hale & Dorr has lost a bid to toss out a fraud claim in a $7 million lawsuit, that alleges the law firm overbilled…

DLA Piper Freezes Associate Salaries

DLA Piper associates were greeted with this email on Friday: 2008 has indisputably been one of the most challenging economic periods in recent history. DLA Piper, because of its global…

GC Goes to Work for Firm That “Saved” Her Daughter’s Life

Via Fulton County Daily Report, the story of a lawyer who has gone to work for the company she says saved her daughter’s life: Her education, work experience and life…

Dewey & LeBoeuf Wants $100,000 a Day — Judge Says “No”

Dewey & LeBoeuf Wants $100,000 a Day — Judge Says “No”

A federal judge, citing excessive hours and unreasonably high rates, ordered a 20% reduction in fees for a law firm helping to protect the assets of investment company WexTrust Capital.…

San Diego Law Firm Saves Sick Kids’ Holiday Fun

San Diego Law Firm Saves Sick Kids’ Holiday Fun

The San Diego Business Journal reports that lawyers in “America’s Finest City” saved Christmas for a group of sick kids. A group of hundreds of children with life-threatening conditions were…

Murder Defendant Denied Counsel, Sues Public Defenders

Murder Defendant Denied Counsel, Sues Public Defenders

A murder defendant who has been denied legal representation for eight months is suing the head of the Georgia public defender system. “This is surely an unprecedented deprivation of counsel…

McNeely Stephenson Opens First Satellite Office in New Albany

McNeely Stephenson Opens First Satellite Office in New Albany

Shelbyville, Indiana’s McNeely, Stephenson, Thopy & Harrold has opened its first satellite office in New Albany. The office was established to service a growing base of corporate clients between New…

Lawyers Raise $200,000 for Human Rights

Lawyers Raise $200,000 for Human Rights

An insurance company’s unusual “pyramid scheme” has raised siginificant funds for global human rights organizations. The legal department at Swiss insurance conglomerate ACE Limited created a novel program that leveraged…

For “Times” Suit, Iseman Taps Lawyer Who Wrote the Book

For “Times” Suit, Iseman Taps Lawyer Who Wrote the Book

Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman has chosen Rodney Smolla, dean of Virginia’s Washington & Lee School of Law, to represent her in her defamation suit against The New York Times. In February…

Lawyers Vie for Top Fed Prosecutor Slot

Lawyers Vie for Top Fed Prosecutor Slot

Four lawyers, including two with ties to the US attorney’s office in Birmingham, have applied to become the next top federal prosecutor in the 31-county Northern District of Alabama. Wednesday…