By Meghan Tribe | May 24, 2017
General counsel are done with dangling carrots when it comes to improving outside counsel's diversity efforts. They've moved to the stick, with some GCs withholding fees from firms that don't meet their diversity requirements. Programs like this, coming from some of the country's largest companies, are not always met with positivity.
By Meghan Tribe | May 24, 2017
For nearly 20 years, general counsel have been trying to impact law firm diversity. Here's a look at those efforts.
By David Bario | May 23, 2017
In a characteristically unorthodox move, the president is reportedly poised to tap commercial litigator Marc Kasowitz to lead his personal legal team amid probes into his campaign's alleged contacts with Russia.
By David Bario | May 23, 2017
In a characteristically unorthodox move, the president is reportedly poised to tap commercial litigator Marc Kasowitz to lead his personal legal team amid probes into his campaign's alleged contacts with Russia.
By Jenna Greene | May 22, 2017
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller III seemed like the perfect pick for special counsel. Except until last week, he was a partner at Wilmer Hale—where his colleague in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, a fellow member of both the strategic response and regulatory and government affairs groups, was Jamie Gorelick. Jared Kushner's lawyer. This could be a problem. A big one.
By Christine Simmons | May 19, 2017
Allen & Overy is suing a former client for $343,448 arising out of its work for the development and financing of a solar power facility in Panama.
By Miriam Rozen | May 17, 2017
Did the president expose himself to obstruction of justice charges in the unfolding scandal involving James Comey? If anyone has an opinion on that burning question, it's the country's pool of former federal prosecutors. But not all of them are willing to share it.
By Marcia Coyle | May 17, 2017
The daily Trump-Comey-Flynn imbroglio and its potential legal ramifications for President Donald Trump suggest it may be time—or past time—for the embattled president to "lawyer up" with outside counsel, veteran white-collar defense lawyers say.
By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | May 17, 2017
Outside Counsel Insights relies on cloud-based cognitive computing system Watson to reveal billing insights to in-house legal departments.
By Brian Baxter | May 12, 2017
In the largest U.S. bank failure since 2010, New Orleans-based First NBC Bank Holding Co. filed for Chapter 11 protection in its home city Thursday. The bank, which went public in 2013, saw two top Am Law 100 firms listed among its 20 largest unsecured creditors.
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