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National Law Journal

Which Big Law Lawyers Are Donating to Trump and Biden?

While Am Law 200 attorney donors to Trump appeared less common, partners from McGuireWoods, Akin, Latham, Akerman and DLA Piper were among those contributing to his campaign and fundraising arms.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Back-Office Back Door to Nonlawyer Investment in Law Firms

Private equity-backed Briefly, which has acquired the back-office assets and personnel from distributed firms OGC, Scale and Rimon, offers one example. Federate, founded by a former Rimon leader, looks to do something similar with funding from legal industry insiders.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

Legal Malpractice Claim Values Reach an 'All-Time High' in Last Year

Insurers surveyed by risk management advisory firm Ames & Gough named conflicts and drafting errors as the two types of claims leading to the largest settlements.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law Campaign Spending Trends Republican in 2024

Am Law 200 law firms and their PACS have contributed less this year on the upcoming election, but Republicans are now receiving the lion's share of disbursements.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law's AI Talent War Aims to Influence Software Development

In the last month alone, Latham & Watkins, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, DLA Piper and Reed Smith have hired technology specialists to newly created roles.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'A Leap of Faith': Some In-House Leaders Join Fight to Fix Big Law's Mental Health Crisis

"We as in-house counsel have an opportunity to reinject into our outside counsel's work a sense of accomplishment and meaning that makes someone able to tolerate the challenges of the hard work," said Eric Greenberg, general counsel of Cox Media Group.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

High Billing Rates May Hasten New Era of Productivity

"The way the market is structured and has been structured for a long time, it's not really a question of growing productivity, it's how do we mitigate the contraction of productivity?" said Bill Josten, strategic content manager for Thomson Reuters.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law Recruiting Confronts Rising Student Activism

Law students are increasingly interested in law firms' political and moral positions.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

These Contenders Are Positioning Themselves to Make (or Return to) the Second Hundred

A group of firms are both within 10% of the No. 200 firm's revenue number and posted year-over-year revenue growth in excess of the Second Hundred's collective growth rate.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

'Macro Impacts': How Much Am Law 200 Firms Have Reduced Their Space

Am Law 200 firms leased an average of 525,500 square feet of office space in 2023 at an average cost per square foot of $50.20. Here's how those figures have shifted in recent years.
7 minute read

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