Law Firms

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

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will not face criminal charges for patronizing a high-priced prostitution ring, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. The announcement, a five-paragraph statement from Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan, ended almost eight months of uncertainty for the disgraced governor, whose lawyers had been quietly making their case to the

Lawyers who volunteered to take calls and monitor polling locations nationwide on Tuesday reported voting machine malfunctions, polling places opening late and numerous incidences of names missing from voter registration rolls. In Ohio, New Hampshire and Virginia, lawyers scrambled to file court documents in election-related lawsuits. But in most states, lawyers were working to prevent

As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s “voter protection” effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted on Election Day. Many activists