Law Firms

The partners of Wall Street’s fifth most profitable firm have revolted against their managing partner ­following a disastrous year that has seen their core ­markets collapse. Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft managing partner and former chairman Bob Link will be removed from the management committee in an extraordinary meeting this Wednesday (19 November). He will remain

Daniel Goleman, the researcher and author most responsible for popularizing the concept of emotional intelligence, has suggested that the heart of great leadership is the ability to adjust one’s style in order to relate effectively to differing people in differing situations. Supplementing the classic leadership characteristics of vision, innovation, motivating others and exercising effective influence,

In downturns of years past, law firms exploited corporate failures and bitter, protracted lawsuits to keep busy and keep billing. But in this still-unfolding crisis, the embittered and the bankrupt have been relatively slow to appear, at least in court. (Thelen Managing Partner Douglas Davidson, pictured) Law firms in turn are feeling the strain. Thelen

The White House today challenged president-elect Barack Obama to make good on his campaign promise to close Guantanámo Bay saying “it’s not so easy” to shut down the notorious detention centre. Hopes that Obama would move swiftly to dismantle the detention facility rose after the Associated Press reported today that his legal advisers were drafting

The demise of the 118-year-old Heller Ehrman has left questions about what went wrong. Heller died because its partners lost confidence in their leaders. And three critical decisions proved to be turning points on the road to Heller’s death. When Heller Ehrman partners gathered at Santa Barbara, California’s Bacara Resort & Spa in March 2007,

Growth at the 250 largest law firms in the country receded this year, likely a reflection of the economic downturn of 2008. The results of the 2008 NLJ 250, The National Law Journal’s 31st annual survey of the nation’s largest law firms, show that they added 4.3 percent more attorneys this year, compared with 5.6

When Barack Obama becomes president in January, he will confront the controversial legal legacy of the Bush administration. From expansive executive privilege to hard-line tactics in the war on terrorism, Obama must decide what he’ll undo and what he’ll embrace. The stakes couldn’t be higher. On one hand, civil libertarians and other critics of the