Law Firms

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s problems escalated this week with another wave of partner departures, with eight additional partners bringing the exodus to 66 out of 200 partners who have now left the troubled firm with . . more troubles. The NY Times reports. An accelerating wave of partner defections from the New York law firm Dewey […]

Dewey & LeBoeuf, the firm that’s been beset with departures since the start of the year, has lost another partner to Mayer Brown’s New York office. Richard B. Spitzer, a corporate finance partner whose practice focused largely on the insurance industry, started at Mayer Brown on Wednesday, according to the firm. Spitzer (William & Mary,

Move over, Big Law. Small Law is in. And the trend has proven to be more than a temporary reaction to the 2008 financial meltdown. Four years later, corporate lawyers are flocking to small firms. Some lawyers call it disaggregation, and it reflects a change in the way the legal industry operates. Small firms are

Dewey & LeBoeuf has taken some dramatic steps to handle the drama of its own problems by undertaking a major reshuffle and by focusing on their profit centers like litigation, bankruptcy and corporate law. Will it be enough to save the firm that has suffered defections and major compensation disputes? The WSJ Law Blog’sAshby Jones

Axiom, the new-breed law firm with the tag line that it redefines law, is bringing over 100 law jobs to Belfast, Ireland with a new outsourcing model. But is this just creating a new India out of Ireland? Or is it something more? Axiom, which was founded in 2000 as a top-end temp agency that

Writing a winning resume has always been part-art and part-science, but never more than today in a tight legal market. A podcast carried on the ABA Journal indicated that not underselling, nor overselling yourself are just some of the problems. Among the issues discussed in the podcast on the ABA Journal were such matters as

Why would BigLaw be worried about Twitter, Facebook and the other ‘threats’ from social media? Or is it just foot-dragging reluctance to engage in all that new-age, social media, techie stuff that seems so removed from everything law firms used to do to get some extra profile. Well, things are a-changing, as the Washington Post

Rush Limbaugh’s denigration of a Georgetown University law student as a “slut” because of what she said before a congressional committee on the need for birth control access, has lead to strong support from the law school Sandra Fluke is a 3L who received a telephone call from President Obama to see if she was

What is going on at Dewey & LeBoeuf? It’s a questions that’s been on many legal lips of late, particularly with reports that the firm has defaulted on payments to former parments and on a required ERISA deposit. So what is happening to the big-name firm? A report from AbovetheLaw recently reported the allegations of