Law Firms

It’s A-List season at The American Lawyer. For the sixth year, the magazine applied the A-List algorithm to The Am Law 200 to determine the firms that best embody what it means to be a success in the legal community. As always, there were surprises. There’s a new A-List champ, Munger, Tolles & Olson, which […]

The legal industry isn’t known for innovation. But a few upstarts have come up with a business model that challenges the tight grip big law firms hold on corporate business. This new breed of firms is landing blue-chip clients and, in the process, making money. The newcomers aim to provide highly qualified lawyers, often working

Why are we asking this now? The Portuguese authorities revealed yesterday that the country’s Policia Judiciaria (PJ) have completed their final report into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished from the flat in a holiday village on the Algarve where her parents were staying with seven friends in May 2007. A state prosecutor must

U.S. military prosecutors yesterday charged a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison with murder and other crimes for allegedly planning the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole warship, a bombing that killed 17 U.S. service members and injured nearly 50 others. Pentagon officials announced eight charges against Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen

In what the Justice Department calls one of the largest antitrust settlements in U.S. history, four international airlines agreed on Thursday to pay $504 million to settle charges that they conspired to fix air cargo rates. The airlines involved in the settlement are Air France-KLM, Cathay Pacific, SAS, and Martinair. “As part of the conspiracy,

The Canadian and American bars have more than language in common. They share some of the same problems, such as how to keep women from fleeing firms. In an effort to stop women from leaving private practice, a number of initiatives will be rolled out in Ontario as part of a program officials hope will

There were women in pearls, men in seersucker — enough well-heeled Mississippians to conjure up a charity auction or summer fete. They were crowded Friday into a small wood-paneled federal courtroom behind a long line of sober, dark-suited attorneys to watch Richard F. “Dickie” Scruggs, a legendary plaintiffs’ attorney, receive a five-year prison sentence after

The grueling legal and environmental odyssey for Alaska fishermen and the Minneapolis law firm of Faegre & Benson came to a climactic conclusion Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court sliced punitive damages from the 1979 Exxon Valdez oil spill to $507 million — a tenth of what a jury awarded 14 years ago. Under Wednesday’s