Roy Strom

August 18, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Charles 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

Baker 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

Rather 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

To 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

A 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

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

Traci 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

William 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

The 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

Sidley 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