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For 25 years, White & Case's far-flung offices have operated as individual fiefdoms, with little directive from above on how to grow business, choose clients or cut costs. But with 2,500 lawyers sp...

Morgan & Finnegan, one of the oldest IP boutiques in the U.S., has suffered a series of partner defections during the last few years. An apparent administrative error revealing a filing in a sealed...

More information is needed to determine if a Manhattan law firm's fee of $40 million for five months' work is unconscionable, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The court declined to gran...

After years of motion practice and a five-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco took roughly two days to exonerate Chevron Corp. for a decade-old bloody debacle in Nigeria. Villagers-turned-p...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed Monday that Qualcomm should be punished for what has in other cases been called a "patent ambush" -- not disclosing patents to a standards-s...

Two law firms defending an attorney accused of sexual harassment cannot withdraw as his counsel days before trial, a Manhattan judge has ruled. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young is lead counsel and Pa...

Encouraged by President-elect Barack Obama's talk of inclusiveness, and emboldened by the importance of the Hispanic vote to Obama's victory, Hispanic groups are cautiously hopeful that finally the...

Lawyers may back out of a home purchase agreement on behalf of their clients for any reason, or for no reason at all, under the "attorney approval contingency" clause common to most residential sal...