How a Move to Chicago Fueled Latham’s Rise

March 26, 2012 2:52 PM How a Move to Chicago Fueled Latham’s Rise Posted by Tom Huddleston Jr. In 1982, Latham Watkins was a precocious West Coast firm with 126 attorneys, outsize revenues, and four offices, only one of which—a 12-lawyer Washington, D.C.,...

Time for Equal Justice

March 26, 2012 11:22 AM Time for Equal Justice Posted by Aric Press Every year at about this time I receive a report (and a thank-you note) from one of the Equal Justice Works fellows that ALM, the parent company of The American Lawyer and The Am Law Daily, supports....

John Edwards Shuffles Legal Team Once Again

March 23, 2012 5:19 PM John Edwards, a Man of Many Lawyers, Shuffles Legal Team Once Again Posted by Brian Baxter Not since Joe Francis have we seen someone shake up their legal roster as often as John Edwards, who is scrambling to cobble together a defense team as...

Legal Community Mourns Death of John Payton

March 23, 2012 2:08 PM Legal Community Mourns Death of John Payton, Civil Rights Activist and Longtime Wilmer Partner Posted by Sara Randazzo John Payton, a civil rights attorney and leader of the NAACP who helped break the color barrier as one of the first black...