NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz have sent a letter demanding answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding a “Secure Work Environment” the bureau has apparently been operating for years in the Washington, D.C., office of the […]
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Lawyer’s January 6 Testimony A Bit At Odds With Lawyer’s January 6 Behavior
(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) So far, the January 6 Committee hearings are playing out like a sorting hat episode with high-profile Trumpland lawyers either sticking to their election lie guns or desperately clamoring to get on the record as never believing that Trump won the election and always sober-minded […]
What Great Lawyers Write Down When Depositions End
A deposition ends. On the one hand, you could think: I took (or defended) a deposition. It’s over. I have to know the details of the case; the client is largely irrelevant. Why bother reporting anything to the client? So I won’t. That’s the wrong way to think. Instead: I […]
Accenture Recognizes Five Law Firms with Outside Counsel Diversity Award
Annual award celebrates outstanding efforts to increase inclusion, diversity and equity in the legal profession NEW YORK, June 14, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has recognized five law firms — Baker McKenzie; Allen & Overy; McDermott Will & Emery; Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; and Lewis Silkin — with its Outside […]
Law Firm Lays Off 10% Of All Timekeepers Due To ‘Decrease In Demand’
Times may be good right now, but Biglaw and boutique firms alike are gearing up for a possible recession, leaving associates and staff members looking over their shoulders for the evil that may be lying in wait for them: layoffs. We first sounded the alarm on layoffs back in April, […]
Preet Bharara Joins WilmerHale – The New York Times
Preet Bharara, the former federal prosecutor, high-profile Donald Trump critic and host of a popular podcast, is joining WilmerHale, a well-connected law firm that has become home to a number of former government officials. It will be Mr. Bharara’s first stint in private practice since the Trump administration fired him […]
Johnny Depp, Amber Heard: Hollywood fights for lawyer Camille Vasquez
She was an unexpected star in the Depp-Heard trial, and now Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez has reportedly been flooded with offers from Hollywood. Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez has been flooded with offers from Hollywood and is at the centre of an ongoing bidding war between law firms that […]
Anonymous Hacktivists Leak 1TB of Top Russian Law Firm Data
Rustam Kurmaev and Partners work with the Russian government and other high-profile banking, media, oil, and industrial companies, including American firms. The Anonymous hacktivists collective has struck Russia again by leaking approximately 1TB of data from a leading Russian law firm identified as Rustam Kurmaev and Partners (RKP Law). The […]
Cravath to open second US office
Cravath, Swaine & Moore is to open an office in Washington DC with a group of senior lawyers recruited from federal agencies, marking the first new location for one of the oldest US law firms in almost three decades. Cravath on Monday said it had hired former leaders of the […]
FBI’s workspace at Democratic-aligned law firm raises conflict-of-interest concerns
The FBI has a personal workstation in the Washington office of Perkins Coie, a law firm with deep ties to the Democratic Party and a string of Democratic presidential campaigns, The Washington Times has learned. The cozy relationship between the bureau and the Democratic-allied legal powerhouse adds to fears of […]
Summer Associates Events Law Firms Should Avoid
Now that law school is out for the year, and the hot weather is upon us, it seems that summer associate season has officially opened. As many people within the legal profession already know, a summer associate is a rising third-year law student who is hired by a law firm […]
FBI Has ‘Secure’ Workspace in Law Firm That Represents Democrats: Document
The FBI has a workspace in the same law firm that employed the lawyer who took sketchy claims about Donald Trump and Russia to the bureau in 2016, the firm revealed in a new document. The workspace, known as a “secure work environment,” within Perkins Coie’s office in Washington was […]