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  • March 11, 2010 | The Associated Press

    Assisted suicide network members charged

    A Georgia grand jury has indicted four members of an assisted suicide group who authorities say aided in the deaths of dozens of people. The Forsyth County grand jury on Tuesday indict

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  • March 23, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    High Court Splits in Limiting Police Searches The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that police without a warrant cannot search a home when one resident says to come in

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  • May 1, 2007 | The Minority Law Journal

    Mixing It Up

    When Solomon Watson IV joined Boston's Bingham Dana & Gould in 1971, he was the firm's first African American lawyer. "It was not much of an issue," Watson says. "My style is to get along

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  • March 4, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Orrick Leads in Percentage of Associate, Counsel Jobs Slashed

    Update: Holland & Knight, number 2 in an earlier version of this post, informs us that its 70-lawyer layoff included partners and contract attorneys as well as associates--although the

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  • August 16, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Of Cravath, IBM, Cybersecurity, and Israel

    UPDATE: 8/21/13, 6:50 p.m. EDT. The names of the lawyers from Goodwin Procter advising Trusteer have been added to the ninth paragraph of this story. On the

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  • February 19, 2009 | Legal Times

    Brutal week may not be the end of law firm layoffs

    Even in the darkest days of the dot-com bust earlier this decade or in the recession of the early 1990s, there was never a day like a class="linelink" target="new" href="http://www.la

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  • January 12, 2009 | Legal Times

    Firm Failures Leave Glut of Open Office Space

    Don’t let the shiny exteriors of Washington’s trophy office buildings fool you. Some of them are nothing more than shells, hiding the lonely spaces left behind by the t

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  • July 23, 2013 | Bloomberg

    Royal Bank Of Scotland Could Be Headed For Breakup

    Five years after giving Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc a record banking bailout, the British government is making it harder to recoup its money by sowing confusion over the firm's structure

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  • February 9, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Firm Leader Edition

    Since our last roundup of newly annointed law firm leaders, even more firms have announced leadership transitions or the appointment of new top. Among the latest changes in the upper echelon

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  • March 5, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Advertiser Tracking of Web Surfing Brings Suits

    Big Brother may be at it again. Behavioral advertising — the tracking of consumer's Internet surfing activity to create tailored ads — has triggered an intense legal cont

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