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Even Bad Clients Need Good Lawyers

The pervasive myth of sympathetic lawyers pledging only to defend the innocent is “corrosive and dangerous,” and has fed into […]

It was already getting more difficult for companies to recruit board members, but following the Yates Memo of September last […]

Its clients have included some of the most famous defendants of our time, among them Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Enron, the Salt […]

Brooklyn U.S. attorneys have tried to find a way around attorney-client privilege to prove a former pharmaceutical company CEO and […]

An undercover sting by a group called Global Witness secretly recorded a dozen New York lawyers who suggested ways to […]

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is leaving Texas-based Bracewell & Giuliani to join Greenberg Traurig LLP. His old firm, […]

The Yates Memo, issued by DOJ in September of last year, requires federal prosecutors to focus their efforts on going […]

An in-depth study of the legal market concludes that most law firms are falling prey to avoidance and wishful thinking […]

A litigation financing ploy, formerly geared to plaintiffs and to evening out the playing field for small litigants, has gone […]

Studies and statistics confirm what many suspect, that here are significant occupational hazards associated with the practice of law. They […]