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Former PD Schiffrin joins Grant & Eisenhofer

Former public defender Richard S. Schiffrin has joined Wilmington, Delaware's Grant & Eisenhofer as of counsel. In 1987 Schiffrin founded a firm…

Joseph Band, who was a lawyer in the US Marshals Service's Office of the General Counsel, enlisted deputy marshals to ferry him…

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Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon has confirmed that the Chicago-based law firm has laid off "approximately" 10 attorneys. About half…

According to the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs…

The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of…

Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position, is rejoining Atlanta-based law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge as of counsel. The last…

Anonymous sources are telling Above the Law that their 2009 paychecks are identical to their 2008 ones -- with no…

Deaf Dog & The Indictments is the world's only (almost) all-judge band (the one non-judge is a PhD, so it's…

The New York state Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished Judge Ellen Yacknin for soliciting, from the bench, support from…

New York's Chadbourne & Parke has poached John A. Squires from Goldman Sachs, where he was chief intellectual property counsel.…

Steven J. Reisman, a partner in New York's Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, has been appointed to investigate allegations that…