The latest from The Am Law Daily
- The Lateral: A Trial Lawyer With Pro Bono Bona Fides Joins Baker Donelson
- The Careerist: Quitting Law to Stay Home—Your Choice?
- The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200
- The Cost of Dissatisfaction
- The American Lawyer 2011 Summer Associates Survey: Rational Exuberance?
- Appeals Court Tosses 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Challenge
- Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Advise on Exxon Mobil's $1.75 Billion Oil Fields Sale
- Anna Nicole Smith Makes Her Mark on Heller Bankruptcy Case
- Four Firms Take Roles on Nationwide Mutual's $760 Million Merger
- TARP Watchdog Snaps at Four Am Law Firms' Billing Practices
The Lateral: A Trial Lawyer With Pro Bono Bona Fides Joins Baker Donelson | Top |
Litigator La'Verne Edney, most recently the general counsel of the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project, looks to help Memphis-based Baker Donelson expand its pro bono program.
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The Careerist: Quitting Law to Stay Home—Your Choice? | Top |
Women who leave high-pressure jobs to be stay-at-home moms often say it's their choice. But is that true? | |
The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200 | Top |
Jones Day's London office gets two new partners; White & Case adds to its Italian practice; and several firms hire attorney's in New York. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to thechurn@alm.com.
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The Cost of Dissatisfaction | Top |
As associate satisfaction continues to plummet, should big law leaders care? You bet.
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The American Lawyer 2011 Summer Associates Survey: Rational Exuberance? | Top |
Law students who spent the past summer working as associates at some of the nation's largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that life at such firms can have. They ended the season believing that reputation isn't deserved--at least not where they worked. | |
Appeals Court Tosses 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Challenge | Top |
Saying the matter was moot, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a constitutional challenge by the Log Cabin Republicans and their attorney, White & Case partner Daniel Woods, to the recently repealed ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military.
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Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Advise on Exxon Mobil's $1.75 Billion Oil Fields Sale | Top |
The two firms take the lead as Exxon Mobil sells Apache Corporation its North Sea oil fields. | |
Anna Nicole Smith Makes Her Mark on Heller Bankruptcy Case | Top |
Eight firms, including Arnold & Porter, Cooley, Hogan Lovells, Pillsbury Winthrop, and Proskauer Rose have agreed to pay a combined total of $2.25 million to settle disputes with the estate of bankrupt Heller Ehrman. Eight others, citing a Supreme Court ruling in a case involving Smith, want their cases moved to federal district court. | |
Four Firms Take Roles on Nationwide Mutual's $760 Million Merger | Top |
Jones Day, Fox Rothschild, Ballard Spahr, and Stevens & Lee are working on Nationwide Mutual Insurance's $760 million cash bid for Harleysville Group. | |
TARP Watchdog Snaps at Four Am Law Firms' Billing Practices | Top |
A new 52-page audit report released by the office of the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program criticizes $8.1 million in legal fees paid to four Am Law 100 firms: Bingham, Cadwalader, Locke Lord, and Simpson Thacher, according to sibling publication The National Law Journal. | |
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