Law Firms

Cardoni & Associates, of Kingston, Pa., will close its doors by the end of the year, sources familiar with the Pennsylvania insurance defense bar say, following federal charges that a Luzerne County Common Pleas judge allegedly accepted the use of a New Jersey beach house owned by the firm’s managing member and improperly ruled in […]

Last month, Susan Blount, the general counsel of Prudential Financial, sent a letter to the 60 law firms the insurance giant uses regularly. The letter addressed the general economy and the need to cut costs, but one announcement stuck out: Prudential informed the firms that in calendar year 2010, the company expected to pay for

DLA Piper has made a new round of job cuts in the Middle East, with the firm set to make another 9% of staff in the region redundant in response to the continued deterioration in the markets. The latest round of cuts, which follow a review of the business, equate to seven lawyers and 10

The Senate late Thursday confirmed Victoria Espinel to be the nation’s first-ever intellectual property enforcement coordinator, a position that will be housed in the White House. She most recently served as the founder and president of the nonprofit Bridging the Innovation Divide and also has served as a visiting professor at George Mason University Law

The former general counsel of Broadcom Corp., David Dull, avoided criminal charges in a stock options backdating case this week following claims of prosecutorial misconduct. Dull is expected to reach a nonprosecution agreement with the government, according to court documents. He has not been criminally charged in the case, but he is considered to be

Stripped of his freedom by the FBI early Tuesday, disgraced Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lawyer Scott Rothstein appeared in a packed Fort Lauderdale federal courtroom and was accused by prosecutors of using forged judicial signatures to defraud investors as part of a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. Wearing a brown designer T-shirt and blue jeans, Rothstein, 47,

The ostensible topic of a recent argument before the Supreme Court was lawyering, but the real subject turned out to be judging. An exchange between Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and one of the lawyers was illuminating. The lawyer, Paul D. Clement, was representing the legal team that had won improvements in Georgia’s foster

It seems you can make big bucks helping others. The people responsible for liquidating Bernie Madoff’s assets and distributing the proceeds to victims of his Ponzi scheme are on track to earn more than $37.7 million for less than a year’s work. Yesterday, bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard and his law firm, Baker & Hostetler, asked

The combined Hogan Lovells is set to maintain separate profit pools and accounting years as part of the proposed structure to unite Lovells and Hogan & Hartson. As partners at Lovells and Hogan met this week to discuss the planned trans-Atlantic merger in depth, more details have emerged of the structure of the deal, which

Ranking law schools and law firms. All of a sudden, everyone’s doing it. A universe that used to contain one member, it seems — U.S. News & World Report — has suddenly gotten a lot more crowded. Princeton Review now ranks the law schools. The American Lawyer, with its annual A-List ranking, provides a ranking