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Legal depts prefer BigLaw for IP litigation
An analysis of $18 billion of invoices could indicate that BigLaw firms are on the way back, having re-engineered their workforce and reviewed billing.
Walt Disney GC tops the salary league
Walt Disney general counsel Alan Braverman has topped a survey of high earning heads of legal by Corporate Counsel magazine.
Steptoe recruits seven-lawyer financial services team from Squire Patton
The team is being led by Micah Green, who will head the Steptoe & Johnson financial services team as well as chairing the government affairs & public policy group from the Washington DC office.
Cloud-based practice recruits eight lawyers from Roetzel & Andress
The lawyers are joining FisherBroyles LLP, a cloud-based firm that was started in Atlanta in 2002 and now has a team of 120 professionals.
Numbers soar among $1,000 per hour lawyers
The number of external legal advisers who charge over $1,000 an hour has gone up by 75 per cent at the General Electric Company.
Immigrant Children in New York given access to lawyers
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced on Sunday that every undocumented immigrant child in New York will now be given access to a lawyer in order to plead their case.
Partners steer away from debt in wake of Dewey failure
Average debt levels held by US law firm partners have fallen a third since 2008 - partly because of concern over the problems that happened at heavily indebted Dewey & LeBoeuf, according to research from Citi Private Bank.
US privacy body starts talks on drone rules at Obama behest
Talks on the privacy aspects of drones will start in two weeks time, following a request received by the National Telecommunications & Information Administration from President Obama, sent by him a fortnight after a drone crashed by the White House.
Four-partner corporate team leaves Reed Smith for Cooley
Reed Smith star Yvan-Claude Pierre, head of its global corporate and securities group and chair of its US capital markets team, is working out his notice period, alongside three other partners, before departing for Cooley.
No Ivy League lawyers here, please
A New York real estate lawyer has railed against lawyers from elite universities, but admits they would not apply for his firm anyway.
Dewey masterplan started in steakhouse, says witness
A co-operating witness has testified that plans to handle a $50m hole in the accounts of failed firm Dewey & LeBeouf began at a lunch in a Manhattan steakhouse and continued with the staff returning to the office and writing up notes of the scheme.
Harper Lee's lawyer tells story of discovery of Mockingbird prequel
The manuscript of 'Go Set a Watchman' by Harper Lee - a sequel to 'How to kill a mockingbird' - lay in a bank safe deposit in Alabama for three years until Ms Lee's lawyer went through the box and realised its significance.
Ex-Cravath Swaine associate defended from public attacks by Reddit
Ellen Pao, who lost her employment discrimination claim against venture capital company Kleiner Perkins, has continued to have a difficult year - resigning from her next employer, Reddit, after 200,000 people signed a petition seeking her removal.
Greenberg Traurig vice-chair of pharma arrested in road rage case
Victoria Davis Lockard, 42, has been charged by the Atlanta police with aggressive driving and criminal trespass after a coffee mug was thrown out of Jaguar, hitting and smashing the car window of another driver.
Outcry as female lawyers criticised over dress sense
An article in a Californian legal publication produced by the local Bar Association - in which only one in a survey of 20 female lawyers was found to dress stylishly - has been attacked for being 'blatantly sexist'.
Skadden partner leaves after conflicts of interest emerge over court case
Eric Waxman, a 57-year old partner in Skadden Arps, has left the firm after admitting to 'deeply' regrettable changes he made to his account of a client interview he did six years ago.
Civil rights lawyer suspects FBI connection in repeated border checks
A US civil rights lawyer who has not been detained and questioned about clients in a career spanning 20 years believes that three recent lengthy border checks could be related to his work for an activist environmental group.
US law firm mergers activity on course to hit record rate in 2015
There were 48 mergers among US firms in the first half of the year, the highest level recorded by Altman Weil in the nine years that it has been collecting the figures.
Regulation expected to open the way for M&A growth in drone sector
Investors are starting to talk up the prospects for increased growth and M&A activity in the drone sector once long-awaited rules are introduced to pave the way for commercial flights.
Lewis Brisbois wins 12-strong litigation team to open in Portland
A team of seven partners and five other lawyers has moved from Williams Kastner to 900-lawyer firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, forming the basis of a new office in Portland, Oregan.