Law Firms

Cravath Swaine announced a new leadership change last week, replacing Evan Chester, the lawyer who created a storm amid legal circles with his Forbes magazine article last year about killing the billable hour. The American Lawyer reprots that Deputy presiding partner C. Allen Parker will become the firm’s presiding partner in January and that the […]

TV law shows have been a staple since – well, since before Perry Mason. So the ABA Journal have come up with the top 25 law TV shows, starting with LA Law and running through the gamut of trial attorneys, small and big lawyers and everyone in between. TV has always loved lawyers. From Perry

Katie Holmes has hired famed Hollywood attorney Bert Fields to represent her in the divorce from Tom Cruise, which she announced on Thursday after lengthy rumors about the health of the couples’ marriage. Bert Fields has been a famous lawyer in Hollywood. At 83 he is still a high billing attorney who has previously represented

Women in the law – always an interesting issue and one raised recently in the best-ever read article in Atlantic (from Anne-Marie Slaughter) and entitled “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All”. Now AbovetheLaw have had their writer Valerie Katz take a small firm look at whether size is really important for women. The article

Rodney King Death Leads to Rodney King’s death on Sunday lead to mixed feelings of angst and grief following the drama his life had created. The LA Times reported that Police had confiscated marijuana plants and evidence of cultivation from his home as officials tried to work out what had occurred to King, who was

The question of whether lethal force is more likely, such as occurred in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, when there is a ‘stand your ground’ doctrine like Florida’s, is looked at in a WSJ report. The ‘stand your ground’ laws create greater flexibility so far as the use of lethal force is concerned, as they

A former Baker & McKenzie lawyer, Martin Weisberg, faces a 15 year prison sentence for his role in conspiring to commit a $55 million stock fraud, which allegedly took place when he was working for the former Jenkens & Gilchrist law firm. Reuters reported that Weisberg pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to commit

Clifford Chance is shifting all its mainstream London corporate team to the same floor of its Canary Wharf building to raise cash in a move that also sees the firm trial an open-plan setting. The firm is carrying out a staggered transfer of the team from the 20th to the 21st floor of its London

A Reuters report suggests that the excesses of US law firms like Dewey & LeBoeuf who run on the ‘eat what you kill’ model, could be controlled through outside investors of non-lawyers who want to avoid train wrecks like Deweys. Outside backers could help tame the excesses of U.S. law firms. Big shops like Dewey

Troubled Dewey & LeBoeuf could be headed for collapse as the starkest signs yet of the firm’s woes emerged with an announcement on Friday that there could be layoffs and with the issuing of a WARN Act notification that could preceed mass layoffs. “Although we continue to pursue various avenues, it is possible that adverse