Law Firms

A former outside lawyer for Refco Inc, Joseph Collins, has been found guilty on seven of 10 charges following a four week retrial involving the defrauding of investors of $2.4 billion. Collins’ 2009 fraud conviction was reversed in January, was found guilty today by a jury in federal court in Manhattan. Jurors convicted Collins on […]

A study by Flex-Time Lawyers, an organization founded in Philadelphia in 1999 has surveyed firms to find which are most family-friendly and used to help women lawyers advance their careers in the law. The findings show that women are holding more positions on high-level law firm committees than the previous year and the trends appear

Will Eric Holder stay in his job as the top law dog in the Obama administration’s second term? Or will he decide there are “still things I want to do?” as he told students at the University of Baltimore. Holder said he still must speak with both Obama and his own family while considering what

Do lawyers recognize themselves in Obama, as compared to Mitt Romney. Lawyers and lobbyists tend to favor Democrats over Republicans if records since 1990 are examined, with contributions in 2008 of $79 million compared with $22 million for the GOP. According too The Lawyer newsletter lawyers donated more than twice as much to Democrat –

The urge to merge, as law blog AbovetheLaw puts it, has seen SNR Denton looking to put itself in a deal with Salans and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain. The merger would create a 2500 lawyer firm which would rival some of the BigLaw firms about. SNR Denton is already the result of a three-way

On-line promotion is finally making an impact on the global legal profession with the percentage of law firm marketing budgets devoted to web sites slightly exceeding business sector averages, according to research released today. Law firms consign old fashioned sales techniques to historyRelated storiesLawyers to sue publishers in groundbreaking caseThe survey of business law firms

The article said the four firms most feared by 240 general counsel and in-house litigation officers were Boies, Schiller & Flexner; Jones Day; Kirkland & Ellis; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, according to a survey by the BTI Consulting Group. The article said that most of the respondents named members of the Fearsome

The decison was the result of a claim by an Auckland doctor who sought to have material removed from Google. He claimed defamation by publishing the results on offending websites via hyperlinks. One of the problems with the case, which was ultimately lost even though the judge left open the liability in defamation issue, was

The role of the legal secretary is changing, but for 28 staff at Slaughter and May’s London office it’s also ending with redundancies cutting the 165 members of the London team. Slaughter and May say the result is the “changing role” of secretaries at law firms with technological advances permitting lawyers greater flexibility as to

Law School rankings have been drawing a lot of flack lately, not to mention a few lawsuits. So what does someone like Justice Clarence Thomas think of the US News & World Report list? Not much, actually, as the WSJ Law Blog reports. WSJ Law Blog: Law school graduates aren’t the only ones saying less