Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, March 9, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… An Illinois judge refuses to dismiss a lawsuit against Donald Rumsfeld… Former Greenberg Traurig partner Mark McCombs is charged with stealing $1 million from a local community… Former New Jersey state official Karen J. Kominsky joins Cozen O’Connor… Cravath, Swaine & Moore [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 27, 2009
Lawyers in Illinois hoping to cash in on a recent law allowing video poker machines to be installed in bars may have to wait a bit longer. The Illinois Gaming Board, charged with licensing and regulating the machines and the companies that own them said this week that it will not be ready to begin [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
Baker & McKenzie reports its average profits per equity partner in fiscal 2008 fell 17%, to $992,000. Revenue was down 3.5% to $2.11 billion. The firm, which in April laid off 38 attorneys and 86 paralegals, has taken a number of other cost cutting measures. Baker & McKenzie was founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Chicago office of Philadelphia’s Cozen O’Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will move into a new, much larger space vacated by Skadden. The firm is recruiting corporate lawyers and commercial litigators. Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
McDermott Will & Emery associates have been paid their 2008 bonuses, with fourth years getting up to $60,000. However, the firm has announced that associate salaries will be frozen for 2009. In February McDermott laid off 60 associates and 89 staffers. McDermott Will & Emery LLP, founded in 1934, is a prestigious international law firm headquartered in Chicago, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan told the state’s legislature that she sees no constitutional problem with the Illinois General Assembly passing legislation to allow a special election for a U.S. Senator to replace the scandal-embroiled Senator Roland Burris. Burris’ appointment by former Governor Rod Blogojevich has been filled with controversy. Burris continues to say he did [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, a Chicago-based law firm with about 200 lawyers, cut nearly 10% of its attorneys. The firm eliminated 19 associates and partners. Last month the firm hired five bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers from DLA Piper. But it also dismissed some attorneys as a result of poor annual performance reviews. The firm declined to release its [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
Chicago’s Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, a business-law firm with about 80 attorneys, will impose a 10% pay cut for partners and associates until May 31, the end of the firm’s fiscal year. “We always believe in taking care of our people,” Chairman David Brown said. “Besides, all of these attorneys have important relationships with [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 5, 2009
Above the Law is mocking an Illinois legal aid society for offering unemployed lawyers the chance to volunteer for pro bono work. CARPLS offers legal aid to low-income residents of Cook County. A local legal aid provider is seeking unemployed lawyers as volunteers to staff its telephone hotline for low-income families in need of legal advice…The [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 5, 2009
The Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission, an agency of the Illinois Supreme Court, has booted 587 active attorneys from the state’s “master roll,” when they failed to file paperwork showing they had met new continuing legal education requirements. All Illinois lawyers were required to complete 20 hours of certified legal training between July 1, 2006, and [...]
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