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Top US firms unwilling to fight gay marriage cases
The traditional enthusiasm of US law firms for defending those in need has not kicked in for marriage equality, says The New York Times.
Microsoft general counsel leads the way on paid annual leave for contractors
Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith has announced that the company will be helping its suppliers address issues over paid leave.
Dershowitz slams accusations as judge throws out sex case against him
Professor Alan Dershowitz, criminal defender of Claus von Bulow, Patty Hearst and many others, will not face underage sex charges, after a Florida judge threw out cases against him and Prince Andrew as being irrelevant to the main case being tried.
US law firms experience record merger activity
The giant Dentons Dachung merger was one of the main contributors to Q1 showing the busiest tie-up activity since consultant Altman Weil began recording such transactions in 2007.
DLA associate murdered after advertising on Craigslist
The 30-year old IP lawyer who worked for DLA Piper and was murdered in a Washington DC hotel last month met the woman alleged to have killed him through an advertisement he placed on the online notice board Craigslist.
Energy lawyers laid off as work contracts in wake of oil price fall
Regional US law firm Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has laid off a total of 32 staff - including 14 lawyers - from its energy teams in six of its US offices.
DLA Piper murder suspect charged
A woman has been charged with the murder of the associate in Washington DC.
Group of GCs urge US government to aid fight back against cyber threat
General counsel and the chief legal officers at NASDAQ, General Electric, Marsh & McLennan and 29 other leading companies have signed a joint letter to the Obama administration and Congress - supporting data-sharing in the battle against hackers.
Proskauer Rose on victim list of US construction giant
Structure Tone, a leading US building company, has pleaded guilty to corruption charges in relation to the defrauding of numerous famous businesses including Proskauer Rose.
Securities class actions over accountancy allegations rise
The SEC's heightened focus on fraud could be the reason behind the significant increase.
Pay surges for US administrators in law firms
Administrators who run practice areas in US law firms saw their salaries go up by an average of 18 per cent last year, according to the Enhanced Law Firm Compensation & Benefits Survey from the Association of Legal Administrators.
Duane Morris partners resign after malpractice claimed
The head of the corporate practice and a fellow partner, both based in Baltimore, stood down after a client filed a US$10m malpractice suit, claiming that the two asked her to start paying her monthly retainer into a company owned by them.
Lawyers warned on ethics over inaccurate LinkedIn endorsements
Lawyers who are receiving endorsements in areas where they have no experience should be monitoring them for accuracy and even culling them, according to an opinion by the New York County Lawyers Association.
Ex-Cravath Swaine associate loses high-profile Kleiner Perkins case
The public might have been surprised that Ellen Pao lost her case against her former employer, the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, but employment specialists were not expecting a win for the corporate lawyer.
Bank names BigLaw firms threatened by hackers
Citigroup has been apologising to law firms after Fried Frank and Covington & Burling were named as being subject to the attentions of hackers - even though there were no breaches of the firms' networks or client data in the instances cited.
GCs become more efficient as high risk class actions treble in three years
The proportion of class actions which is classified as 'high risk' or 'bet-the-company' has risen from 4.5 to 16.4% in three years but general counsel are rising to the challenge and managing them more efficiently, according to new research.
Police seek woman in relation to murdered DLA associate
A well-built, hooded person seen entering the hotel and climbing the stairs to the floor where a DLA Piper associate was found stabbed in Washington DC is probably female, according to police investigators.
Dial-a-lawyer service used by 200,000 US attorneys
Some 8m people are each month visiting Avvo, the site which promises to connect consumers to a lawyer on the phone within 15 minutes - and numbers are expected to rise as a new app allows mobile callers to upload the photo of a document.
Lawyer admits that AIG pushed baseball player to settle 7-year dispute
Seven years after the start of a defamation dispute between a coach and one of the top US baseball players of his era, the insurer AIG has set up a settlement between its client, the ex-Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens and his former trainer.
Cyber Security in insurance: the New York Department on Financial Services comments
What are the implications of the newly-published 'Report on Cyber Security in the Insurance Sector'? Vikram Sidhu of Clyde & Co explains.