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Sep 28 2011
ThomsonReuters reports that a first year associate has said that New York firm Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman was "extraordinarily vindictive" for firing him after...
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Jul 18 2011
UK firm Manches has announced that a redundancy process is underway, though the firm will not reveal how many staff will be affected.
A spokesman for the firm...
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Dec 11 2009
In the Galleon Group insider trading probe, Brien Santarlas, former Ropes & Gray intellectual property associate, pleaded guilty to stealing information about firm...
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Nov 16 2009
City managing partners are warning that ditching associate locksteps as the job market shows signs of recovery could be harmful. Many firms are gearing up to revamp...
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Nov 13 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will implement its revamped associate career development model in London from spring 2010 with the system to be rolled out globally from...
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Nov 06 2009
In 1998, law firms in Atlanta paid new associates about $72,000 a year.
That may be more to the liking of Altman Weil legal consultant James Cotterman, who told...
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Nov 05 2009
Lawyer Steve Sanders made his U.S. Supreme Court debut today arguing on behalf of prosecutors accused of conspiring to frame two murder suspects.
Sanders is an...
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Sep 29 2009
Allen & Overy has been ordered to rehire an associate in Frankfurt who had been laid off earlier this year. A German labour court ruled that the dismissal did not...
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Sep 16 2009
Clifford Chance is looking to rebuild its pracctice in Italy, which has suffered a number of key losses in recent months.
Former Clifford Chance associate Lucio...
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Aug 10 2009
Around nine former Linklaters employees are about to take legal action against Linklaters, writes RollOnFriday.
According to the report, one associate has already...
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Feb 04 2009
Allen & Overy Moscow senior associate Deidre Dare, who was sacked without prior notice last week after publishing an erotic novel online, plans to appeal the sacking....
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Feb 02 2009
Allen & Overy has fired Deidre Dare, a Moscow senior associate who published an erotic novel on-line.
Some weeks after the firm stopped Deidre Dare from publishing...
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Oct 20 2008
A first-year associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton made an Excel reformatting error that mistakenly added 179 contracts to an agreement to buy Lehman Brothers...
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Oct 01 2008
As law firms grapple with the fallout from the current financial crisis, starting associate pay is likely to hold steady for a while, according to a special associates...
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Aug 05 2008
Shearman & Sterling has sacked one of its London associates after a vacation student claimed that he sexually harassed her after taking her to a West End strip club.
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Jul 30 2008
The ex-Sullivan & Cromwell associate who brought a highly-publicised sexual orientation discrimination suit against his former firm has been hired by Clifford Chance....
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Jun 02 2008
An ex-Baker & McKenzie associate has been arrested on suspicion of stealing $1.3million from a client's account. Martin Weisberg, a former securities lawyer at the...
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May 20 2008
Newly-qualified solicitors (NQs) at Lovells will now take home £65,000 after the City heavyweight announced pay rises for its junior lawyers.
The move lifts NQ pay...
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May 20 2008
Tina Monshipour Foster was a fourth-year associate in the midtown Manhattan office of Clifford Chance LLP, one of the world's largest law firms, with annual pay of...
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May 20 2008
Dorsey & Whitney LLP is seeking candidates with one to four years of experience to join the firm's Patent department in the Seattle office.
Experience:
Qualified...
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May 19 2008
Members of a Calgary law firm Merchant Law Group (MLG) are being sued by a former associate who claims he spearheaded their successful battle to win compensation for...
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May 10 2008
Allen & Overy has frozen its associate salaries in a surprising decision that completes the magic circle’s round of conservative salary reviews this year. A&O newly...
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May 09 2008
A former associate at Bingham McCutchen has filed a discrimination complaint against the Boston law firm, claiming it failed to promptly investigate her allegation...
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Mar 20 2008
A Haitian woman is suing one of the world's largest law firms for $75 million, claiming that the firm used her only as window dressing because of her race, fired her...
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Feb 12 2008
Unauthorized blog contest to pick Skadden's 'hottest female associate' provokes chilly response from law firm brass
Who's the hottest young woman lawyer at Skadden,...
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Dec 22 2007
A former associate from Allen & Overy’s New York office is suing the firm for race discrimination. Former associate Norman Schoenfeld, who worked at the firm from...
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