By James Booth | June 1, 2017
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and British firm Bond Dickinson will join forces without combining their finances, adopting a model similar to what Eversheds and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan just formalized.
By Julie Brush | June 1, 2017
It is not appropriate for a lawyer (or any professional) to contact someone she barely knows in an organization and ask for an endorsement for a job. If the requesting professional hasn't worked with their "contact" and/or has not built extensive relationship equity with this person, there is no solid or credible foundation to receive such an endorsement.
By Ross Todd | June 1, 2017
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose has 76 civil motions on his docket that have been pending for more than six months—nearly 60 percent of all the long-pending motions in the Northern District of California, according to a recent report.
By Jenna Greene | June 1, 2017
It's getting hot outside, and the lateral litigator market is heating up too. High profile real estate and IP litigators found new homes in May, with MoFo and Fried Frank among the winners.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 31, 2017
Plaintiffs attorneys suing over the Sanofi breast cancer drug Taxotere say the company's lawyers should be penalized for making an "unseemly attempt" to reveal funding arrangements.
By Roy Strom | May 31, 2017
Tony Nasharr was a Big Law novice when his six-lawyer boutique was absorbed into Polsinelli in 2006. But he proved a quick study as Chicago managing partner, growing the firm's office into nearly 100 lawyers. As Nasharr prepares to step down, The American Lawyer caught up with him to discuss what he's learned in the Big Law trenches.
By Meghan Tribe | May 31, 2017
Kirkland & Ellis has brought back former senior litigation partner Stephen Patton as of counsel in Chicago, where since 2011 he has served in the $174,000-per-year role of corporation counsel for the Windy City.
By Meredith Hobbs | May 31, 2017
After 12 years defending lawyers, accountants and other professionals as a partner at Carlock Copeland & Stair, Pete Werdesheim has switched to the plaintiffs side and works from an office in the Old Fourth Ward.
By Lizzy McLellan | May 31, 2017
Reed Smith has brought on two lawyers from Dentons to lead a new practice area in aviation and aerospace finance and commercial space business, extending a string of recent lateral moves in aviation law.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | May 31, 2017
A federal judge has denied a regional chamber of commerce's request to block a Philadelphia city ordinance banning employers from asking job applicants about their wage history.
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