The Securities Investor Protection Corporation and the trustee handling the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC have mailed more than...
In more overbilling news, Wilmer Pickering Hale & Dorr has lost a bid to toss out a fraud claim in a $7...
A federal judge, citing excessive hours and unreasonably high rates, ordered a 20% reduction in fees for a law firm helping to...
Am Law has announced their Litigation Boutique of the Year Winner: Chicago’s Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP. No hourly fees,...
A murder defendant who has been denied legal representation for eight months is suing the head of the Georgia public defender system....
Republican Missouri State Senator Jack Goodman has joined the Springfield office of Kansas City’s Lathrop & Gage LC. Goodman is in his...
Sean Patrick Maloney, the first deputy secretary to New York Governor David Paterson, resigned this week, effective at the end of the...
Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School of York University will review admissions procedures, after The Toronto Star discovered a third-year student had used a...
The Clinton-era head of the US Patent & Trademark Office has joined Baltimore’s Whiteford, Taylor & Preston. Bruce A. Lehman, previously of...
What’s left of San Francisco’s Heller Ehrman, which dissolved in November, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Former Heller partner Peter Benvenutti said...
An interesting story at the DC Examiner, about the results of a study from the National Association for Law Placement: Female partners in...
President-elect Barack Obama is attracting even more Washington lawyers to his incoming administration. Cassandra Butts, who met Obama at Harvard Law, will...