Scott Flaherty

September 02, 2017 | National Law Journal

It was roughly four decades ago when Elizabeth Cabraser, co-founder of the plaintiffs-side class action firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, began working with law partner Robert Lieff during her final year of law school.

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read

September 02, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Lawsuits against Proskauer Rose and Norton Rose Fulbright highlight an issue that has grown increasingly complex with the management advances at law firms--should equity partners now be considered employees?

By Scott Flaherty

19 minute read

September 01, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Employment in the U.S. legal sector remained largely unchanged in August, adding 100 jobs alongside modest employment gains posted by the U.S. economy overall, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read

August 31, 2017 | The American Lawyer

A California jury ordered Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to fork over $335,000 to a legal recruiter who sued the firm alleging it breached an oral contract related to its hires of financial services partners Donna Wilson and John McGuinness in 2013.

By Scott Flaherty

15 minute read

August 29, 2017 | The American Lawyer

The creator of the online comic strip character that grew into an internet meme has stopped an alt-right children's book from using the character.

By Scott Flaherty

9 minute read

August 28, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Former U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Theodore Essex has joined Hogan Lovells' intellectual property practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read

August 24, 2017 | The Recorder

A former Steptoe & Johnson associate urged a Los Angeles federal court not to send a proposed class action into private arbitration, arguing…

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read

August 23, 2017 | The Recorder

A former Steptoe & Johnson associate urged a Los Angeles federal court not to send a proposed class action into private arbitration, arguing that case law should prevent the firm from burying her gender bias allegations in a secret proceeding.

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read

August 18, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Following insider trading charges brought in May, former Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and Foley & Lardner partner Walter "Chet" Little formally denied the allegations in court on Thursday, entering a not-guilty plea alongside a co-defendant in the criminal case.

By Scott Flaherty

19 minute read

August 18, 2017 | The American Lawyer

As Baltimore nears a recommendation for a police monitor under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, Venable remains as the only law firm in a select group of finalists vying for the role. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, meanwhile, has signed on for an additional three years—and fees of up to $6.4 million—in a similar role in New Orleans after its selection in 2013.

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read