Law Firms

The high times in America are slowed for the World’s largest law firm. Clifford Chance has closed three of its four California offices and has now paid $3.75 million to settle claims related to the collapse of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison. Brobeck’s bankruptcy trustee has filed a complaint against some of the former Brobeck partners […]

The American Lawyer’s A-List is a carefully weighted ranking based on AL’s surveys of The Am Law 200, the highest-grossing U.S.- headquartered firms. The top 20 firms — the top 10 percent — made The A-List, a ranking we called the new elite, or the top tier. Many of the firms that made the list

Now that the lazy days of summer are over, attorneys are on the move. Law school students are busy securing top-paying jobs at local firms, recruiting directors are hunting for new associates and experienced practitioners are surveying their options. In hopes of attracting the best and the brightest from the crop of law students who

The last hurdle has been cleared for the homegrown law firm of Gray Cary Weir & Freidenrich to help create the world’s third-largest law firm on Jan. 1. Attorneys for Piper Rudnick of Baltimore and DLA of London voted unanimously Sunday to complete the firms’ three-way merger. Previously, San Diego’s Gray Cary had approved its

HealthSouth the US hospital operator, on Thursday settled allegations that it defrauded federal health insurance programmes by agreeing to pay $325m. The US Department of Justice said the case covered allegations that HealthSouth had improperly or unlawfully billed Medicare and other federal programmes for a range of patient services dating back to 1991. But the

Iran’s hardline judiciary admitted it had made an administrative error by summoning Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi to a national security court, and said there was no danger she would be arrested. “The prosecutor reviewed the case when he learned it concerned Ebadi, and found some mistakes had been made,” judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimi-Rad

A landmark settlement last month that had 10 former WorldCom directors agreeing to pay $18 million from their own pockets to investors who lost money in the company’s failure was scuttled yesterday. The settlement fell apart after the judge overseeing the case ruled that one aspect of the deal was illegal because it would have

Clifford Chance’s embattled New York office has haemorrhaged six partners, with its entire insolvency and restructuring group quitting en masse for Kaye Scholer. High profile head of insolvency and restructuring Margot Schonholtz is leading the team, taking with her CC’s entire New York restructuring team, consisting of partners Mark Liscio, Jill Kurtzman, Madlyn Primoff and

Michael Jackson’s lawyer said on Tuesday the pop star would tell the jury in his child molestation case how his teenage accuser had run wild at his Neverland Valley ranch, drinking wine and looking at porn, while his mother hatched a scheme to extort money. Concluding his opening statements, attorney Tom Mesereau said his client

The driver of the sealed truck that carried 19 illegal immigrants to grisly deaths nearly two years ago in South Texas in the nation’s worst human smuggling disaster went on trial for his life here Tuesday with the government and the defense offering the jury sharply different pictures of his culpability. In his opening statement,