Annual award celebrates outstanding efforts to increase inclusion, diversity and equity in the legal profession NEW YORK, June 14, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has recognized five law firms — Baker McKenzie; Allen & Overy; McDermott Will & Emery; Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; and Lewis Silkin — with its Outside […]
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Summer Associates Events Law Firms Should Avoid
Now that law school is out for the year, and the hot weather is upon us, it seems that summer associate season has officially opened. As many people within the legal profession already know, a summer associate is a rising third-year law student who is hired by a law firm […]
Hollywood, law firms battling to hire Camille Vasquez after Johnny Depp trial
Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez has been flooded with offers from Hollywood and is at the center of an ongoing bidding war between law firms that want her on their team following her victorious performance in the actor’s trial, sources told The Post. The tough-as-nails attorney, 37, became a star […]
Law Firms Branch Out Beyond Lawyers in Bid to Beat Out Rival Advisers
Behavioral scientists, data experts, journalists and cops—four professions that are being brought together in, of all places, law firms. Traditionally staid law practices increasingly want to be more things to more clients, particularly in the competitive risk and compliance space. Facing competitive pressure from professional services firms and from clients […]
Law Firms Should Consider Mandatory Vacation Policies
This website and other outlets have discussed at length how work-life balance has been upended at numerous law firms in recent years. Lawyers and staff are routinely tasked with working outside of business hours and on nights, weekends, and other times when lawyers have off. Many law firms have vacation […]
Law Firms Should Consider Eliminating Weekly Time-Entry Deadlines
Numerous law firms have administrative chores that all attorneys need to complete in order to fulfill management expectations. Many law firms have attorney evaluations that associates need to complete on an annual or more-frequent basis, and other shops have business development tasks that attorneys need to carry out in order […]
Money Matters: These Am Law 100 Firms Haven’t Announced Raises Yet
Biglaw’s 2022 salary wars have been ongoing since January, and the market (i.e., all of the firms that have matched Cravath’s generous $215K to $415K scale) has spoken — very loudly, in fact. Dozens of firms up, down, and even outside of the Am Law 100 have already matched the […]
Emails reveal prominent law firms were among donors to Caddle’s dark money groups
The emails from 2016, which have not been previously reported, reveal for the first time at least some of the donors to a network of dark money organizations Caddle and another man, Gianni Donates, formed in what appeared to be an effort to hide the source of the money spent […]
More and More Law Firms Are Paying Top Partners $10 Million a Year
Gibson Dunn is the latest firm to change its pay model, offering bigger salaries to top partners. The group of Big Law partners making “ballplayer money” is growing, recruiters told Insider. Kirkland & Ellis, which pays top earners more than $20 million, has led the change. In some upper-echelon circles […]
Sanctions put Texas law firms with Russian clients and offices in tough positions
As sanctions against Russian companies and those that do business with Russian entities expand daily, the role of lawyers is increasingly in the spotlight, including pressure to drop their Russian clients. And the plight of U.S. lawyers practicing in Moscow is even more problematic. Fourteen large corporate law firms operating […]
Law firms cut Russian client ties as international sanctions spread
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People are seen through windows of an office building in the Moscow International Business Centre, also known as “Moskva-City”, in Moscow, Russia February 9, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Firms are reassessing client relationships to comply with sanctions over the Ukraine invasion White […]
Engineer, law firms agree to settle Surfside condo lawsuit
Two of the major defendants in the lawsuit over the Surfside condominium collapse — an engineering company hired to repair structural problems and a law firm that represented the condo association — have agreed to tentative settlements in the tragedy that left 98 people dead. Lawyers for the survivors and […]