By Ross Todd | April 16, 2024
After serving as a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology during her sabbatical from Munger, Tolles & Olson, Miriam Kim is calling on firms to expand their pro bono efforts beyond lawyer hours to include providing technical assistance to legal aid organizations.
By Ross Todd | October 27, 2023
Lawyers for families of those killed in the 2012 school shooting won rulings finding that litigation debts Jones accrued through "willful and malicious injury" to their clients cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.
Litigation Daily | Conversation
By Ross Todd | October 10, 2023
Robbie Kaplan of Kaplan Hecker & Fink and Karen Dunn of Paul Weiss play prominent roles in the documentary film "No Accident," which chronicles the lawsuit they led against the organizers of the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
By Ross Todd | September 29, 2023
Britt Cramer of Kirkland & Ellis, Christina Sharkey of Quinn Emanuel, and Nicole Schult of Uptown People's Law Center represented a former prisoner who testified about her sexual abuse at the hands of a counselor at the Logan Correctional Center near Springfield, Illinois.
Litigation Daily | Conversation
By Ross Todd | July 25, 2023
"I think there is some lesson here for the skeptical at times lawyers to just really keep it up and not give up," said Hartnett of her client Nakia Roy, who at times in his decades-long appeals represented himself pro se.
By Ross Todd | July 20, 2023
In what our friends at The American Lawyer called a "post-pandemic reset," average hours were flat in the latest Pro Bono Scorecard, after an earlier, precipitous drop from the time when lawyers filled their pandemic-stalled dockets with pro bono work.
By Ross Todd | June 27, 2023
Over a six-week span in May and June, Halpern argued appeals in the Second, Fifth and Seventh Circuits as well as New York's Appellate Division, Second Department.
By Ross Todd | July 25, 2022
Coming on the heels of a banner year for pro bono in Big Law in 2020, firms did significantly less pro bono work "by all key measures," according to Am Law.
By Ross Todd | April 28, 2022
Kirkland donated about 5,300 hours to an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights following the murder of George Floyd. The state's civil rights enforcer announced Wednesday it found Minneapolis and its police department engaged in "a pattern or practice of race discrimination" in violation of the state's Human Rights Act.
By Ross Todd | February 23, 2022
"When you get a window into an adversary that has basically operated in complete darkness, without any scrutiny — not even regulatory scrutiny — you can imagine how unguarded people are," says Chris Boehning of Paul Weiss.
Presented by BigVoodoo
Law firms & in-house legal departments with a presence in the middle east celebrate outstanding achievement within the profession.
The premier educational and networking event for employee benefits brokers and agents.
The Legal Intelligencer honors lawyers leaving a mark on the legal community in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
A large and well-established Tampa company is seeking a contracts administrator to support the company's in-house attorney and manage a wide...
We are seeking an attorney to join our commercial finance practice in either our Stamford, Hartford or New Haven offices. Candidates should ...
We are seeking an attorney to join our corporate and transactional practice. Candidates should have a minimum of 8 years of general corporat...
MELICK & PORTER, LLP PROMOTES CONNECTICUT PARTNERS HOLLY ROGERS, STEVEN BANKS, and ALEXANDER AHRENS