Law Firms

He’s a big man, he’s in big trouble and he’s facing big fees from the lawyers in the small country where Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has been sequestered while fighting the US authorities wanting to extradict him to the US on copyright, money laundering and racketeering charges. Problem for the US is things aren’t going […]

Ever had a client ask about “LPM”? Yep, LPM. Stands for legal project management and its something that firms are increasingly embracing as clients begin asking about it and as new systems are implemented to ensure firms respond to client demands and still make good money from them. Philip Austin of Nixon Peabody writes: For

As if lawyers, let alone young ones, need it – an infographic showing some of the major trends facing the legal industry, including: globalization, alternative legal service providers, virtual law offices and legal process outsourcing. The graphic is based on US Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Bar Association and other sources and put together by

Former high profile trial lawyer Pierce O’Donnell, who has been released from a two month prison term in relation to charges of an offense which involved misrepresentation, fraud, deceit or the use of dishonesty by funneling illegal campaign contributions to former Sen. John Edwards The National Law Journal reports that O’Donnell was due to report

Changes to the UK legal landscape are also changing the way British law firms are managing themselves. The Lawyer spent the summer canvassing partners in the top 100 firms for the very first time. What were they seeking from the high-rolling lawyers? Their thoughts on how their firms were being run. The results are, well,

Women who succeed in law are a lower-ranked group than most people would accept, other than women trying to succeed in law. Every law firm offers what appears to be everything, but the National Law Journal’s research shows they make up just 15 per cent of equity partners. So what’s happening out there? The NLJ

A $250 million lawsuit brought against Cooley Law School in Michigan by graduate students has been dismissed by a Michigan court. The lawsuit alleged misrepresentation by Cooley over job placement stats, with the former students saying they had been the victims of misinformation. The Court rejected the lawsuit saying that the statistics quoted by Cooley

The Dewey & LeBoeuf circus went to London with confused signals about exactly what was going to happen with a deal to be presented by the firm’s bankruptcy chief attemting to sell London partners a $100 million settlement. However, doubt, skepticism and confusion reigned. The Lawyer reports that the meeting, scheduled for July 13was to

Eric Holder, the Attorney General has made the record of being the first current attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, even though attacking resident attorney generals may be common practise in Washington. After all, even Abraham Lincoln was faced Congressional enquiry, as Politico reports. The attorney general has long been the congressional

Major law firms in London and New York will be grearing up for criminal and civil lawsuits in respect of the scandal over interest rates manipulation, lead by British bank Barclays which has already felt the heat of the British Government. The New York Times reports that the US Justice Department has identified its targets