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Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami is being considered for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement position, one source familiar with the matter said on Saturday.

Law Firms / February 7, 2009

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami is being considered for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement position, one source familiar with the matter said on Saturday. The SEC’s new chairman, Mary Schapiro, has been looking for a “tough” prosecutor to restore the agency’s reputation as Wall Street’s top cop and an announcement could come […]

Whether they worked at Heller or Thelen–or were pushed out at other firms–some partners didn’t have a choice about finding a new job. The American Lawyer reports on a new phenomenon.

Law Firms / February 4, 2009

Anne Pitter practiced with the same group of corporate attorneys for 15 years. They stayed together even as the name on the door changed: Baer Marks & Upham merged into Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, and Brown Raysman merged into Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner. But when Thelen fell apart last fall, Pitter

Whether they worked at Heller or Thelen–or were pushed out at other firms–some partners didn’t have a choice about finding a new job. The American Lawyer reports on a new phenomenon. Read More »

The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s brokerage plans to hire a British law firm to help in the international hunt for missing investor assets linked to the purported $50 billion fraud.

Law Firms / February 3, 2009

The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s brokerage plans to hire a British law firm to help in the international hunt for missing investor assets linked to the purported $50 billion fraud. Lovells LLP has been asked to serve as special counsel in foreign proceedings involving Madoff’s international business, according to a U.S. bankruptcy

In Philip K Howard’s view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who “go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.”

Law Firms / February 1, 2009

Well, if Philip K. Howard, founder of Common Good and author of The Death of Common Sense, is right, the very last thing we want to be doing right now is watching as not one but two attorneys fill up all the sock drawers at the White House. In his new book, Life Without Lawyers:

In Philip K Howard’s view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who “go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.” Read More »

Partners at K & L Gates and Chicago’s Bell Boyd & Lloyd are scheduled to vote Friday on whether to merge their two firms.

Law Firms / January 30, 2009

Partners at K & L Gates and Chicago’s Bell Boyd & Lloyd are scheduled to vote Friday on whether to merge their two firms. The firms disclosed their talks in December. If approved, the merger would boost K&L Gates’ head count to 1,950 lawyers and expand its footprint to the Chicago market. It also would

Partners at K & L Gates and Chicago’s Bell Boyd & Lloyd are scheduled to vote Friday on whether to merge their two firms. Read More »

Linklaters, the world’s second-largest law firm, is poised to cut up to 270 jobs because of an unexpectedly sharp fall in revenue caused by the financial crisis.

Law Firms / January 29, 2009

Linklaters, the world’s second-largest law firm, is poised to cut up to 270 jobs because of an unexpectedly sharp fall in revenue caused by the financial crisis. The “magic circle” firm will lose up to 120 associates, or almost 18 per cent of its junior fee-earners in London. As many as 150 support staff could

Linklaters, the world’s second-largest law firm, is poised to cut up to 270 jobs because of an unexpectedly sharp fall in revenue caused by the financial crisis. Read More »

There are many ways to look busy when work is slow, but only some of them are worthwhile. There is the ever-popular cyberloafing approach, in which workers stare at their carefully shielded computers with a furrowed brow, trying to look as if they are working when they are actually surfing the Internet, the New York Times reports.

Law Firms / January 27, 2009

To a passer-by, the chic clothing store on Mott Street in Manhattan looked like a tumult of activity. On a recent weekday afternoon, Carolyn Bailey, a supervisor, was fussing with the window displays of women’s clothing, shifting piles of perfectly folded sweaters, spacing hangers a finger-width apart, debating avidly on the phone with a higher-up

There are many ways to look busy when work is slow, but only some of them are worthwhile. There is the ever-popular cyberloafing approach, in which workers stare at their carefully shielded computers with a furrowed brow, trying to look as if they are working when they are actually surfing the Internet, the New York Times reports. Read More »

For years, the law firm Heller Ehrman LLP used a goofy coat of arms inside its offices: a laurel wreath, the scales of justice and a Latin quotation, elvem ipsum etiam vivere. Rough translation: Elvis Lives.

Law Firms / January 26, 2009

For years, the law firm Heller Ehrman LLP used a goofy coat of arms inside its offices: a laurel wreath, the scales of justice and a Latin quotation, elvem ipsum etiam vivere. Rough translation: Elvis Lives. In late September, Heller Ehrman went the way of Elvis. Just two years after its most profitable year ever,

In his new book, ‘The Associate’, John Grisham brings us deep inside the brutalizing subculture of young associates working like dogs for high-end law firms: “brutal hours, sadistic bosses, unbearable pressure – it was all part of the blue-chip law firm experience.”

Law Firms / January 25, 2009

In John Grisham’s classic legal thriller “The Firm,” published in 1991, ambitious young lawyer Mitch McDeere signs on with a prestigious law firm only to find himself caught in a world of deception and danger. In “The Associate” (his 22d book), Grisham entertainingly returns to the theme of a young lawyer seemingly in over his

In his new book, ‘The Associate’, John Grisham brings us deep inside the brutalizing subculture of young associates working like dogs for high-end law firms: “brutal hours, sadistic bosses, unbearable pressure – it was all part of the blue-chip law firm experience.” Read More »

Skadden. The name, terse and uncompromising, symbolizes the most rarefied levels of corporate law, where clients throw platoons of attorneys at a problem and barely blink at the resulting $50,000-an-hour bills.

Law Firms / January 24, 2009

Skadden. The name, terse and uncompromising, symbolizes the most rarefied levels of corporate law, where clients throw platoons of attorneys at a problem and barely blink at the resulting $50,000-an-hour bills. With 1,700 attorneys and $2.2 billion in fees last year, New York’s Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is the biggest U.S. law firm