• June 15, 2009 | National Law Journal

    CIVIL ACTIONS

    The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the district courts' official online bulletins. U.S. DISTR

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  • March 17, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Buchanan Bumps First-Year Pay to $125,000

    Buchanan Ingersoll has become the latest Philadelphia firm to increase first-year associate salaries, moving from $115,000 to $125,000.The pay hike will affect 2006 associates, and firm Chie

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  • October 6, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Malpractice Suit Is Dismissed Against Herrick Feinstein Justice Walter B. Tolub of Manhattan Supreme Court has dismissed malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty claims a

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  • October 24, 2005 | Legal Times

    An October Shock

    Getting an employment-based immigrant visa is like going to the deli. In theory, when a customer arrives, she gets a ticket with a number and waits. When her number is called, she orders

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  • September 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn

    British Petroleum's protracted efforts to close its Deepwater Horizon oil well underscored the risks of the energy business. But Am Law 200 firms chose to focus on the positive. Lawye

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  • March 20, 2009 | Law.com Corporate

    Harsh Times Have Clients Grousing About the Billable Hour

    MIAMI - A 20 percent drop in revenue for tractor-maker Caterpillar means there's less money for legal expenses. Mark Anderson, the company's Miami-based counsel for Latin America and the Caribbe

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  • December 4, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Law firms consider overhaul of associate bonus structures

    The end of the economic boom days for law firms, although most likely temporary, might also mean a shift in the way associate bonuses are structured as firms use the downturn as a reason to o

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  • October 12, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Capital Punishment

    In her opinion in Chester v. Beard, PICS No. 09-1654 (M.D. Pa. Sept. 28, 2009) Kane, J. (19 pages), Chief U.S. Di

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  • April 4, 2007 | The Recorder

    Sun Lawyer Takes the Helm at KLA

    It's possible Brian Martin is the only general counsel of a major U.S. company who can be seen on a bucking bronco in a a class="linelink" target="new" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dillon/entry/ridi

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  • May 31, 2007 | The Recorder

    Firms Get Failing Grades on Diversity

    Legal Pad � the law blog that refuses to call itself a blawg! View all the latest posts on the main page or read a la carte:

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