• December 22, 1999 | Texas Lawyer

    Legal Aid: Sharing the Holiday Spirit

    HOMES FOR THE HOLIDAYA House of Their Own Luz Garcia has lived in public housing with her husband and four children for seven years. She is a won

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  • April 1, 2008 |

    Hiring Lawyers by the Numbers

    Many companies are instituting new policies for hiring outside counsel -- policies that are making some general counsel squirm and some law firm lawyers shudder. Under pressure to control ex

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  • October 9, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Fresh Recruits

    All that talk about law firms shifting their principal recruitment efforts toward lateral hires has apparently been unpersuasive in New Jersey. In this, the Law Journal's seventh annual

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  • September 21, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Boom Town

    CHICAGO-Major U.S. law firms looking to muscle up their national networks are eyeing Chicago for expansion, attracted by the city's corporate clientele and seasoned pool of attor

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  • February 23, 2004 | Legal Times

    Metro Players

    HAPPY REUNION Founded by Deborah Cochran and Amy Owen,Tysons Corner, Va.'s Cochran & Owen has been open for business only since the first of the y

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  • March 17, 2003 | Legal Times

    Honors and Appointments

    PRO BONO PARTNER AWARDCorporateProBono.Org, a national outreach project designed to encourage in-house lawyers to participate in pro bono service, presented its first-ever

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  • April 24, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Firms help Chicago bar raise funds for legal aid

    CHICAGO — The Chicago Bar Foundation said it has raised $900,000 to help support legal aid workers in Chicago after a three-week fundraising campaign earlier this year that took in

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  • June 3, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Phila. Bar Association Run Sees Record Turnout

    A record 1,592 registered for and 1,262 runners and walkers finished the 2010 Philadelphia Bar Association 5K Charity Run, which benefits the Support Center for Child Advocates. At the time of this

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  • June 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The Am Law Second Hundred-2008: The Law Firm Investor's Guide

    The prospect of taking law firms public is back on the agenda of the profession's chattering class. Georgetown's law school held a recent conference; Bruce MacEwen, writing as Adam Smith, blogged o

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  • July 29, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Recession Doesn't Halt Law Firms' Pro Bono Efforts

    Despite a mixed bag in terms of where they fell in the rankings, Pennsylvania law firms showed an increased commitment to pro bono work in 2008, according to The American Lawyer's an

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