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Hildebrandt: Demand for Legal Services Down 8%

According to the Hildebrandt International Peer Monitor Index, demand for legal services dropped by more than 8% compared to Q1…

Former employees of San Francisco's defunct Heller Ehrman, which declared bankruptcy in December, are suing 179 former partners for $32…

To help find a way out of financial woes, Blockbuster has hired the law firm of Kirkland and Ellis. The…

In the wake of chemical giant LyondellBasell filing for Chaptel 11, several top firms in the United States and the…

Bankrupt law firm Heller Ehrman paid out more than $7 million to 35 departing or retiring partners in 2008. The…

Bush, Seyferth & Paige, based in Troy, Michigan, has added Peter C. Bolton as a partner in the Bankruptcy/Creditors' Rights…

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Cary has ruled that lawyers for the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy case cannot charge hourly fees that…

Save for a skeleton staff authorized to wind up the affairs of the now-bankrupt Dreier LLP, attorneys remaining at the…

Tipsters are telling Above the Law that dissolving law firm Morgan & Finnegan is unable to cover cheques issued to…

Everyone's favorite lawyer Marc Dreier, founder of New York's Dreier LLP, was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday. The…

New York litigation firm Kaye Scholer, representing the trustee in hip hop entrepreneur Marion "Suge" Knight's bankruptcy case, is requesting…

New York City's Duval & Stachenfeld is laying off an undisclosed number of first and second year associates, according to…