By Scott Flaherty | September 27, 2017
When news broke this week that former Winston & Strawn intellectual property partner Constance Ramos has sued her old firm, she publicly landed among a group of female lawyers who claim in court that they faced sex discrimination in Big Law.
By Brian Baxter | September 27, 2017
The Ontario Securities Commission, a Canadian regulator, has charged former Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg legal assistant Donna Hutchinson in Toronto with insider trading. Davies Ward is one of the largest law firms in Canada.
By Roy Strom | September 27, 2017
The record for mergers set in a year, 91 in 2015, will fall this year if there are 16 combinations in the fourth quarter. The last time there were fewer than 16 mergers in a fourth quarter was 2010, according to data compiled by legal consultancy Altman Weil. Last year there were 25 tie-ups toward years' end.
By Meghan Tribe | September 27, 2017
The Am Law 100 firm has become the latest in Big Law to unveil a parental leave policy designed to provide additional time off for working parents after a birth, foster or adoption. The new policy increases primary care giver leave for all U.S. lawyers to 20 weeks. Business services staffers will also get an increase, to 14 weeks.
By Joseph Evans | September 27, 2017
In its quest for global dominance, Dentons has announced a combination with Kampala Associated Advocates, the largest law firm in Uganda. The move follows nearly a dozen other combinations unveiled by the global legal giant in recent months.
By Katelyn Polantz | September 27, 2017
Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr apologized Wednesday after one of its lawyers accidentally sent a Wall Street Journal reporter privileged documents detailing a history of whistleblower claims at PepsiCo.
By Meghan Tribe | September 26, 2017
Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico with a force unseen locally since 1928. The Category 4 storm made landfall with winds around 155 miles per hour, leaving the island without power and many residents scrambling for access to cash, gasoline or water. Among those trying to get back to work are lawyers at large law firms in San Juan.
By Vivia Chen, The Careerist | September 26, 2017
Chalk this up to another instance where a girl just can't win.
By Tom McParland | September 26, 2017
Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg owes $36,000 in unpaid wages to two of its former partners, a Delaware Superior Court judge ruled Monday, scolding the defunct intellectual property boutique for creating a "labyrinth" to avoid paying its debts.
By Roy Strom | September 26, 2017
Liisa Thomas, the former chair of Winston & Strawn's global privacy and data security practice, has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Chicago office, treading a path familiar to four of her colleagues that have made a similar move in the Windy City.
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