Law firm

British law firm Linklaters has poached on Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Chris Howard by appointing him as a partner for its London office.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a premier New York law firm, has kicked off the BigLaw bonus season by announcing bonuses ranging from $7,500 to $35,000 for its associates who have been employed at the firm prior to September 1, 2010.

The four-inch plastic action figure of Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs will no more be in the market as the iPhone maker's law firm has sent a cease-and-desist letter to MIC Gadget that created the figure.

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading financial news and business information provider, is acquiring Pangea3, one of the largest legal outsourcing firms in India, for an undisclosed amount.

The bankruptcy trustee for Scott Rothstein's defunct law firm has reached a tentative settlement with American Express, the card that was used to fuel Rothstein's and his wife's luxurious lifestyle, that will help the victims of the high-profile lawyer's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme recoup some of their losses.

DLA Piper, one of the largest global law firms in terms of lawyers, is laying off an unspecified number of support staffers in the U.S. to right size its operations.

Britain's Prince William and his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton ended speculations about their future by announcing their engagement on Tuesday but triggered a new speculation over whether the couple will opt for a prenuptial agreement.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: RINO International, Bank of Kentucky Financial, Human Genome Sciences, EDAP TMS, Patterson-UTI Energy, JA Solar Holdings, GT Solar International, Syntel, Acergy, and Sina.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: RINO International, Renasant, Anadigics, China Natural Gas, Allos Therapeutics, Sina, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Mattel, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, and Bob Evans Farms.

Women lawyers in America's top law firms have not benefited from structural changes that created nuanced stratifications of lawyers, a survey by the National Association of Women Lawyers and the NAWL Foundation suggests.

The percentage of women lawyers in America's top 250 law firms has declined, according to findings based on NLJ 250, The National Law Journal's annual ranking of the nation's largest law firms.

U.K. law firm Norton Rose has expanded its presence in Canada and South Africa by agreeing to merge with Ogilvy Renault and Deneys Reitz respectively.