Washington, DC-based Patton Boggs is adopting a new compensation plan for partners, retooling a long-held “eat-what-you-kill” system to reward partner cooperation and...
One month after retiring from a 20-year stint in Congress, former Representative James Walsh has begun work as a government affairs counselor...
Greenberg Traurig, in alliance with Equal Justice Works, has named its 2009 Fellows, ten individuals to receive funding though the Greenberg Traurig...
Norton Rose has offered trainees due to join the firm in 2009 and 2010 up to £10,000 to defer the start dates...
The Dayton, Ohio office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister has added eight new lawyers. The firm is bringing on all four lawyers...
Hausfeld LLP, which launched in November after Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll voted out name partner Michael Hausfeld, announced this week it...
New York’s Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is sending some of its associates to year-long stints at nonprofit organizations. The firm has extended...
The National Law Journal reports that major firms brought on as many new associates in 2008 as they did in 2007, leaving...
Am Law 100 firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore saw 2008 gross revenue fall 13%, while profits per partner dropped 24% to $2.5...
Morrison & Foerster has frozen associate salaries, and revised its associate discretionary bonuses to as low as $6,000 for 2008. All 2008...
According to the Legal Intelligencer, law firms are targeting the directors of their pro bono and diversity initiatives when time for layoffs...
The meltdown of the legal services industry, in the wake of the financial meltdown, is hurting biglaw firms as they shed lawyers...
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