Law Firms

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced today it is laying off 96 lawyers in a second round of job cuts as the Wall Street firm continues to cope with the ongoing effects of the credit crunch. W. Christopher White, the firm’s chairman, says the cuts will be in its capital markets and global finance groups, which […]

Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has arrived at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Dr Karadzic landed at Rotterdam airport in the Netherlands shortly after 0600 GMT and was transferred to the court complex where he faces trial on charges of genocide. “Radovan Karadzic was today transferred in to the Tribunal’s

Top aides to former Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales employed a political and ideological litmus test to weed out candidates for career and other positions at the Justice Department, an internal department report concluded Monday. The audit by the department’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that former Gonzales aides Monica

It took more than a year for a dogged Texan lawyer, Brent Coon, to get the former BP boss Lord Browne to answer questions on the legal record about the Texas City oil disaster. It turns out that the noble lord’s knowledge of the tragedy was fuzzy, to say the least. A transcript was made

A common provision found in many law firm partnership agreements, which requires a written-notice period prior to a partner’s withdrawal from the partnership, can have calamitous results, particularly when combined with the competing fiduciary duties law firm partners owe to both their partners and their clients. Such provisions often place the departing partner in a

A deadline for ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to the Netherlands on genocide and other charges has expired. An appeal notice is said to have been posted by his lawyer just before 2000 (1800 GMT) at an unknown location in Serbia in order to delay the process. Any appeal is expected

The social networking site filed a lawsuit against German site StudiVZ.com July 18 that alleges copyright infringement. But Facebook’s most successful look-alike–and perhaps the ultimate target of its legal ire–could be China’s Xiaonei.com. Xiaonei closely mimics Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook’s blue and white design, and the site’s founder, Wang Xing, told Forbes.com in June that

Craig Johnson, the Silicon Valley lawyer-entrepreneur who brought you the Venture Law Group, is onto his next big thing: a virtual law firm. Johnson and 14 other lawyers unveiled the new firm, called Virtual Law Partners, on Friday. The idea is to have more work-life balance, work from home, save on overhead, charge clients less,

Lawyers won’t have to be slaves to the billable hour for much longer, according to the panel of experts participating in “Flexing the Workplace,” a roundtable discussion held in the New York offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell and sponsored by the National Association of Women Lawyers. Timed to coincide with NAWL’s annual awards luncheon

A federal judge in Washington has refused to halt the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver. The action clears the way for what is expected to become the first trial of a terror suspect via military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday. Lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamden had asked US District