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The Other Heat Wave: Law Firms Sweat Over Lateral Moves, Office Launches, Recession Prep and More

Law firm management faces constant challenges, including competition for talent, economic turmoil, geopolitics and preparing for the unexpected, writes Lisa Shuchman in this week's edition of The Global Lawyer.
8 minute read

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Results Season: What the Early Numbers Tell Us

The early signs are that the UK legal industry is struggling to keep up, writes this week's London Lawyer, plus an insurance scandal that has sent shockwaves.
4 minute read

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The Business of Law in Asia: One Size Does Not Fit All

In this week's Asia Legal Briefing, Jessica Seah considers the challenges and frustrations experienced by Asia regional heads of U.K.-headquartered firms and examines how their Asia strategies differ from those of U.S.-based firms.
6 minute read

International Edition

Twitter vs Musk Epitomizes the Legal Industry's Next Chapter

The Global Lawyer: A notable rise in a variety of disputes appears to signal the start of a new economic cycle for large law firms.
6 minute read

International Edition

In Asia, Is It Back to Business or Still Too Soon?

The Asia legal market is back, as was clear at Law.com International's Asia Legal Awards dinner last week. But it's an ever-changing market, Jess Seah writes in the Asia Legal Briefing. Who will come out ahead?
5 minute read

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'These Are the Times that Try Men's (and Women's) Souls': Are Law Firms At Last Finding Purpose?

The famous lines written by Thomas Paine at the outset of the American Revolution brought people together for a common end. In the past week, events in the U.S. may have had a similar impact on lawyers and their firms, The Global Lawyer writes.
11 minute read

International Edition

More Than 1,000 Male Partners Start Own Call to Action Post-Dobbs

The effort is in solidarity with a similar effort by thousands of women law firm partners who pledged to support reproductive rights in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
34 minute read

International Edition

Commercial Lawyers Are Operating in a Bubble

Elite lawyers are working in half-empty 'state-of-the-art' offices, with poor diversity stats and wildly high salaries, writes the London Lawyer.
4 minute read

International Edition

More Than 2,000 Women Partners Issue Call to Action Post-'Dobbs'

"Our presence and leadership within the bar is without question a byproduct of the freedom each of us has had to make reproductive decisions for ourselves," the signatories from several Am Law 100 firms wrote.
71 minute read

International Edition

When The Old World Meets The New: Law Firms' Need to Adapt

The longest-standing legal institutions only remain relevant if they continue to adapt, writes the Global Lawyer. It is a message that holds true for elite commercial law firms the world over.
5 minute read

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