August 18, 2017 | The American Lawyer
In Virtual Merger, FisherBroyles Adds More Work-From-Home IP LawyersCharles Yang's three-lawyer, cloud-based Ntellect Law found a fitting home this month when it merged with FisherBroyles, a pioneering firm that claims to be the largest in a growing crowd of virtual or cloud-based law firms.
By Roy Strom
3 minute read
August 17, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Morgan Lewis Lands a New Tax Man in Bill-Slashing Baker McKenzie PartnerBaker McKenzie's North America tax practice head Tom Linguanti has left the global legal giant to join Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. By linking up with John Magee, a high-profile tax controversy partner at his new firm, Linguanti finds himself on a team that over the years he often competed against for work.
By Roy Strom
4 minute read
August 16, 2017 | The American Lawyer
King & Spalding's Latest Lateral Recruit Has Firm Headed to ChicagoRather than return to Latham & Watkins, Zachary Fardon chose to build a King & Spalding office from the ground up in Chicago. He said he will build his new firm's Windy City outpost with a focus on “caring, kindness and civility,” noting that those “those couplings are maybe too rare in the Big Law business.”
By Roy Strom
7 minute read
August 14, 2017 | The American Lawyer
ABA Report Promotes Changes to Treat Addiction, DepressionTo better handle the stress that comes along with the battles of being a litigator, Jeffrey Bunn often spends 15 minutes silently meditating…
By Roy Strom
5 minute read
August 14, 2017 | The American Lawyer
ABA Report Promotes Changes to Treat Addiction, DepressionA report released Monday by the American Bar Association hopes to help the legal profession address addiction and depression by detailing sweeping changes that bar regulators, judges, law firms, law schools and others can make to address what the report says amounts to a crisis in lawyers' well-being.
By Roy Strom
5 minute read
August 14, 2017 | The American Lawyer
What's the Next Hot Market for Law Firm Mergers?In recent months, the Midwest has seen a spurt of law firm combinations. Smaller firms are joining forces.
By Roy Strom
59 minute read
August 11, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Sedgwick Partner Who Settled Gender Bias Suit Leaves FirmTraci Ribeiro, a Chicago-based partner at Sedgwick who sued the firm last summer for discrimination before settling the matter in arbitration in April, recently left its partnership ranks.
By Roy Strom
16 minute read
August 10, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Big Law Firms Are 'Poorly Run Businesses,' Says Ex-Heavy HitterWilliam Glasgow helped intellectual property boutique Fish & Neave merge with Ropes & Gray a dozen years ago. Now, as the Am Law 100 firm unwinds part of that union, the semi-retired Glasgow reflects on the current state of Big Law. Oh, and he once tried to do business with President Donald Trump.
By Roy Strom
36 minute read
August 07, 2017 | The American Lawyer
New Report Shows Am Law 100 Firms Pulling Ahead of Smaller PeersThe market for large law firms continued to face demand headwinds in the second quarter of 2017, according to a new report Monday by Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor, but the largest firms continue to separate themselves from their smaller peers.
By Roy Strom
5 minute read
August 02, 2017 | The American Lawyer
Loeb & Loeb Snags Six-Lawyer Sidley Trusts and Estates TeamSidley Austin appears to be moving out of the trusts and estates space for high net worth individuals as a well-known firm in that practice area, Loeb & Loeb, takes the bulk of its lawyers in Chicago.
By Roy Strom
4 minute read
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