Sheppard Mullin, which instituted salary freezes in January, now admits it has been shedding attorneys since the beginning of 2009. At yesterday’s...
First LA’s Paul Hastings announced the layoff of 10 Atlanta associates. Now tipsters tell Above the Law that the firm is holding...
Los Angeles has always prided itself on being a very diverse city. More than one-third of the city’s population was born in...
A criminal defense attorney in San Bernardino, California has been arrested on suspicion that he took drugs and guns as compensation for...
Law firm Cooley Godward Kronish has established a fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Cyber Law Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet...
Happy Valentine’s Day! On Thursday, February 12th, 2009, six prominent firms fired over 700 attorneys and legal staffers, in what is becoming...
The State Bar of California has shuttered three Southern California offices of attorney Mitchell W. Roth, who was recently declared a vexatious...
Perkins Coie has filed a breach of contract suit against former intellectual property associate David Xue. According to court documents, Xue left...
Crowell & Moring has added two new hires to its International Dispute Resolution Group. Pieter Bekker, formerly of McDermott Will & Emery,...
This morning’s top stories: Defunct law firm Thelen LLP is telling courts it couldn’t possibly pay its employees accrued vacation, or give...
San Diego, California’s Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has cut 12 attorneys and 15 staff positions. The cuts came in San Diego...
These are the weekend’s top stories: Hinshaw & Culbertson, a Chicago-based firm with about 490 attorneys, cut 11 attorneys and 17 staff...