Specialty Practice - Local firms strategically build teams of lawyers to target hot issues, emerging trends

Starting salaries likely to rise, but local law firms still deliberating

Billable isn't everything

GCs See Increased Workload due to SOX

For many buyers, there are no second thoughts on second homes

Reed Smith mulls entry into Chicago market

Pepper Hamilton Office Hires Houston Harbaugh's Chief Litigator

City's five-largest law firms expect to add more lawyers to ranks

More money may mean more work for first-year associates

Firms consider wage boost for new lawyers

Westwood joining rival legal practice

Reed Smith raises starting associate salaries

Unemployment affecting lawyers

Bankruptcy shows firms' struggles

Morgan Lewis raises ante for its first-year associates

Bad times are good business for law firms here, across U.S.

Suburban law offices allow firms to grow, serve wider client base

Bankruptcy filings are increasing

San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson establishes new office Downtown

All's fair in law and war