Law Firms

In a pro bono victory for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton lawyers, a Tennessee appeals court has vacated the 1985 felony murder conviction of former death row inmate Erskine Johnson and remanded his case for a new trial. The decision—issued on December 9 by the Tennessee Criminal Appeals Court in Jackson—was in large part the […]

American law schools are suffering a bit of an image problem. Thanks to a determined group of writers known as “scam bloggers,” it’s now an open secret that many schools admit far more students than will ever be able to find jobs after graduation. These student often leave campus with six figures of debt and,

Big law is heavily favoring President Obama in campaign contributions, pouring twice as much money into the president’s re-election campaign than into the four leading Republican candidates combined. Obama has received $4.1 million from lawyers and law firms compared with the $1.7 million that Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have received

An entrepreneur who had just sold his business for $20 million explained two fundamental rules of business this way: “There are really only two things that matters in building a successful business,” he replied. “How much one unit costs and how much you can sell that same unit for.” He explained that nothing he learned

Only moments after Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of one felony count of involuntary manslaughter in respect of the death of Michael Jackson, the doctor was denied bail and ordered him held in jail until his sentencing later this month. Murray, 58, sat impassively at a table with his lawyers as the unanimous guilty

Rather, it divvied up the law-firm world into practice areas and, within each practice area, separated the firms into tiers. Fair enough, U.S. News. And probably sensible, but a lot less fun than a straight numerical ranking. Some of the practice areas are biggies, like General Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Bankruptcy and IP. Others are

By Steve Gibson, William Henderson, Caren Ulrich Stacy, and Chris Zorn* For more than a century, baseball has been been known as America’s pastime. Change comes slowly to the game, and tradition is sacred. But as the recent film Moneyball details, one key part of the baseball edifice—the way that teams select and develop their

The attorneys behind class actions against New York Law School and Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced plans on Oct. 5 to sue 15 additional law schools for publishing what they described as misleading postgraduate job statistics. They have yet to secure enough name plaintiffs for those suits, however. They won’t file until three alumni

They have no partner structure, their attorneys work mostly from home or clients’ offices, and they bill at half the rates of big law firms. Two years after jumping into the Washington market during the depths of the recession, ­­­Axiom Law, a legal services provider with an un­or­tho­dox business model, is making major inroads here.