Law Firms

Welcome to ZZ’s world: a whirl of good weed, wild parties and wilder girls. In Beijing. This is no joke. The seat of China’s age-old civilization is as seamy on the inside as it looks imposing from the outside, judging from “China High,” a memoir scribbled under the nom de plume ZZ by a Shanghai-born, […]

Clifford Chance’s global head of litigation and dispute resolution has quit the firm in the wake of a practice overhaul that will see a number of associates laid off in the U.S. Mark Kirsch, who has held the global role since early last year, handed in his resignation on Thursday. He has also headed up

Twelve years ago, Sonia Sotomayor went before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, only to face a surprise grilling. Republican senators quizzed Sotomayor about judicial activism and her rulings in cases about gays and gangs in prisons. They even asked if she had once

Nothing grows forever. For the first time since 1991, both average profits per partner and revenue per lawyer dipped last year among the Am Law 100 firms, the top-grossing firms in the nation. And, given the weakness in the market thus far in 2009, another decline seems likely this year. Those are the headlines from

When she retired in 2006, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor lamented that her successor Samuel Alito Jr. did not wear a skirt. In an interview last week with The National Law Journal, O’Connor said that, with a new vacancy on the Court, most people are “expecting and indeed hoping” that the next appointee

By Alexadra Levit. I often tell the story of my first boss, who hated me so much I thought I’d unknowingly committed some grave offense. She’d call me into her office and yell at me for dressing inappropriately and offending colleagues even though in my opinion, I looked and acted just like everyone else. Feeling

Several investors who lost about $4.5 million combined in the Ponzi scheme Florida fund manager Arthur Nadel allegedly ran have sued Holland & Knight, claiming the offering documents the firm helped Nadel prepare failed to mention several key facts — including that Nadel had been disbarred for fraud, according to the complaint. The documents in

For Michelle Obama, corporate law turned out not to be the career she wanted to look back on at the end of her life. “I had to ask myself whether, if I died tomorrow, would I want this to be my legacy, working in a corporate firm, working for big companies,” the first lady told