Month: January 2009

Lawyer Forgot She Was Suspended, Argued Before CA Supreme Court

The California Supreme Court has removed Cynthia Thomas from the death penalty case of Charles Moore, and referred her to…

This morning's top stories: New York’s Chadbourne & Parke has announced a salary freeze for 2009. The Above the Law…

Simmons & Simmons has asked its March 2009 trainees to consider deferring until 2010. The firm offered its 17 trainees…

Am Law 100 firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison had a solid 2008, with both revenue and profits on…

Via Texas Lawyer, the story of a lawyer who fell for an email scheme: Houston lawyer Richard T. Howell Jr.,…

What is it nowadays with notable lawyers and their Ponzi schemes? Two well-known Fort Lauderdale, Florida attorneys have been indicted…

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

Kevin J. O'Connor, the former US associate attorney general (the third-highest job in the Justice Department), is joining Houston's Bracewell…

Fortune Magazine says DC law firm Arnold & Porter is not only the best DC law firm for which to…

Comparing himself to a cowboy facing a hanging, Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich condemned the state Senate for preparing to…

New York's Chadbourne & Parke has announced a salary freeze for 2009. As you know, the world economic outlook for…

Here are this morning's top stories: London’s Linklaters , the world’s second largest law firm by revenue, will eliminate 70 partners…