By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | December 18, 2019
Van Beckwith is going in-house with Halliburton, a Baker Botts client, after 30 years with the firm. Partners Bridget Moore and Danny David will become the new litigation department heads.
The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Burton Taylor | December 18, 2019
Law firms spend so much time anticipating how and when their clients may be blindsided on legal matters that they may be overlooking a critical touch point that can just as easily cause anxiety as it can quell it.
By David Thomas | December 10, 2019
The Am Law 200 firm says its program offers pricing flexibility for clients, while its new tier of lawyers have opportunities for training and advancement that other law firm staff attorneys don't.
By Dylan Jackson | December 5, 2019
The opinion provides guidance on two often fraught issues in lateral moves: notice provisions for departures and client solicitation.
By Dan Packel | December 4, 2019
A new survey draws a straight line between lower realization rates and law firms' failure to communicate the substance of outside counsel guidelines to billing attorneys.
By Jack Newsham | December 2, 2019
A reported effort by lawyers David Boies and Stan Pottinger to obtain years' worth of Jeffrey Epstein's sex tapes has some legal ethics experts wondering: Did the lawyers cross a line, or might they have eventually?
By David Thomas | December 2, 2019
The firm accuses Akerman's Michael Goldberg of "a rapacious attempt to transform a garden-variety legal malpractice lawsuit into an unsubstantiated criminal indictment of an attorney and law firm."
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Packel | December 2, 2019
Client meetings were once the province of lawyers alone. Not anymore. Make way for the business professionals.
By David Thomas | December 2, 2019
Firms are sitting on a bigger pile of unpaid bills this year, due to more work and slower payments from clients.
By Mike Scarcella | November 23, 2019
The Gibson Dunn team includes veteran Supreme Court advocate Ted Olson and Theodore Boutrous Jr., whose First Amendment media advocacy has pit him against the Trump administration. Morrison & Foerster's Kevin Mullen is counsel of record for Amazon.
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