Law Firms

The London-based legal battle between Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky are highly attractive to London law firms who are expecting to pocket around £100 million in legal fees from the Russians and their thirst for British justice. Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich may have won his battle against $6.5bn (5bn) of claims by […]

The AmLaw Survey about the best law firms to work takes the microscope to 12 areas of work satisfaction, finding Nutter McClennen and Paul Hastings as the two top-ranked law firm workplaces in their latest survey, which is exactly where they ranked last year too. To find out how third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates rate

A former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner is charging Citibank with ‘fraudulently inducing’ them to sign a loan agreement with the bank to permit them to make capital contributions to the failed law firm, after Citibank sought summary judgment against the lawyer. A former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner who has been accused by Citibank of defaulting

The Chinese “Whydunnit” trial of Gu Kailai, wife of a disgraced politician, has ended with a suspended death sentence after she was found to have killed British businessman Neil Heywood using cyanide in a trial that created a Chinese legal and political sensation. The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician was given a suspended death

He’s a big man, he’s in big trouble and he’s facing big fees from the lawyers in the small country where Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has been sequestered while fighting the US authorities wanting to extradict him to the US on copyright, money laundering and racketeering charges. Problem for the US is things aren’t going

Ever had a client ask about “LPM”? Yep, LPM. Stands for legal project management and its something that firms are increasingly embracing as clients begin asking about it and as new systems are implemented to ensure firms respond to client demands and still make good money from them. Philip Austin of Nixon Peabody writes: For

As if lawyers, let alone young ones, need it – an infographic showing some of the major trends facing the legal industry, including: globalization, alternative legal service providers, virtual law offices and legal process outsourcing. The graphic is based on US Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Bar Association and other sources and put together by

Former high profile trial lawyer Pierce O’Donnell, who has been released from a two month prison term in relation to charges of an offense which involved misrepresentation, fraud, deceit or the use of dishonesty by funneling illegal campaign contributions to former Sen. John Edwards The National Law Journal reports that O’Donnell was due to report

Changes to the UK legal landscape are also changing the way British law firms are managing themselves. The Lawyer spent the summer canvassing partners in the top 100 firms for the very first time. What were they seeking from the high-rolling lawyers? Their thoughts on how their firms were being run. The results are, well,

Women who succeed in law are a lower-ranked group than most people would accept, other than women trying to succeed in law. Every law firm offers what appears to be everything, but the National Law Journal’s research shows they make up just 15 per cent of equity partners. So what’s happening out there? The NLJ