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Perhaps 50 of the 300 partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf at the end of 2011 are still with the law firm right now. Associates and staff have been laid off. And a group of retired pension partners are pondering a possible effort to force the firm into involuntary bankruptcy. The final remaining member of what was, until recently, a five-partner law...

After reviewing some 40 submissions, judges have selected three finalists for the 2012 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Now you can help them pick the winner by voting in the poll accompanying this post through July 8. Those up for the prize this year are: Michael Connelly, author of The Fifth Witness; Robert Dugoni for his book Murder One;...

A public taxing district board for a New Smyrna Beach, Fla., says the advice it got from an Orlando lawyer concerning compliance with the state's Sunshine Law has proven expensive. After a state court judge nixed a planned 2010 merger with Adventist Health Systems over 21 closed-door meetings over a 16-month period, the Bert Fish Medical Center...

Updated: A former litigation counsel accused of misusing the car service at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has lost a bid to reinstate her age and sex discrimination suit against the law firm. Rita Gordon’s suit had claimed the firm cited her liberal use of the car service as a pretext when it fired her in 2005. In reality, her suit c...

The fourth and final lawyer who was managing Dewey & LeBoeuf has left the law firm. Charles Landgraf joined Arnold & Porter on Wednesday, where he will be a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, the Hill reports. An insurance lobbyist, Landgraf told the publication that Arnold & Porter is “the perfect platform” for his pract...

Last week, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton warned lawyers in Roger Clemens’ perjury trial that they were dragging out the case and boring the jurors. The trial is now in its fifth week, and two jurors are gone. They were dismissed after they were caught sleeping during the testimony, the New York Times reports. The first was dismissed a day a...