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By Andrew Maloney | November 7, 2023
The internatinal firm's chair pointed to "a very, very busy year" across the firm—one in which productivity was "materially" increased, as well as increasing cost of living.
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By Justin Henry | Patrick Smith | November 7, 2023
Cravath has been approaching counsel-level attorneys about joining its non-equity tier since at least last summer, according to one Am Law 50 firm leader.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | November 7, 2023
An in-depth survey of nearly 200 UK associates at large law firms has found nearly a third feel morale has dropped over the last year, with emphasis on billable hours, salary disappointment and a 'tough' office culture among the factors responsible.
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By Justin Henry | October 25, 2023
The New York firm is also considering altering the portion of equity partner pay that comes from firm profits vis a vis bonuses.
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By Tom Parry | October 11, 2023
Law.com International spoke with silks and senior juniors at the major London commercial sets about the 'beauty pageant' of selection, getting 'screwed' on fees, and the evolving barrister-solicitor bond.
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By Aishah Hussain | October 9, 2023
The move means the firm's highest paid partners will receive towards the upper end of what UK Top 50 law firms tend to pay out, ahead of many other mid-market firms.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | September 28, 2023
Former insiders spoke of issues around the firm's inflexible lockstep and a perceived lack of global ambition—but the firm's managing partner Edmund Reed explains how these and others matters are being addressed.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | September 13, 2023
The firm's aggressive hiring strategy has so far seen 12 arrivals from Kirkland & Ellis, and one from Linklaters.
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By Justin Henry | Andrew Maloney | September 12, 2023
Their potential pay may not be the highest for partners at high-end Am Law 25 firms, where annual compensation for a handful is more than $25 million.
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By Paul Hodkinson | August 23, 2023
U.K. firms need to rethink their star culture if they want to compete on a global scale—A&O's tie-up with Shearman will be the first big test.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | November 10, 2023
"What complicated the case for us is normally when you're asking for attorneys fees, the jury has seen the underlying case. The fruits of that work play out in the courtroom," lead plaintiffs attorney Alan Loewinsohn said.
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By Cedra Mayfield | November 9, 2023
"The problem with plaintiff's value-added model is that this calculation does not necessarily bear any relation to the amount of work actually expended in the case between the time of the settlement rejection and judgment," read Fulton County State Court Judge John R. Mather's order.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | November 6, 2023
"What complicated the case for us is normally when you're asking for attorneys fees, the jury has seen the underlying case. The fruits of that work play out in the courtroom," lead plaintiffs attorney Alan Loewinsohn said.
4 minute read
By Brian Lee | November 6, 2023
Commissioner Victor Kovner, senior counsel at Davis Wright Tremaine, said it would be "shocking and offensive if not obscene that the judges in our court of general jurisdiction are paid less than a recent law school graduate."
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By Alexander Lugo | November 3, 2023
"The attorneys who are going to join us are the attorneys who want to bet on themselves. They know what they are worth, and they want to be able to have agency over their time and over the type of work that they deliver to their clients," said Concepción Global partner Christine Concepción.
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By Amanda O'Brien | November 1, 2023
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan missed its window of opportunity to find a merger partner, and now the firm is shutting down. Could leaders have done anything to secure greater support for their plans?
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By Amanda O'Brien | October 25, 2023
"The differences the data reflects are that mothers are disproportionately not getting important assignments, not being assigned matters with travel, not having sponsors and mentors, and there's a disparity in income particularly as income rises," attorney Roberta Liebenberg, a co-author of the report, said.
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By Alexander Lugo | October 20, 2023
"Associates are our most important asset," said Lawson Huck Gonzalez shareholder Jason Gonzalez, formerly the managing partner of Shutts & Bowen's Tallahassee office. "We're all busy as heck, and we have to have the highest quality associates to help us represent these clients."
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By Allison Dunn | October 20, 2023
U.S. District Senior Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District of Virginia approved the final settlement agreement between a class of drug purchasers and pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co., and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, which also requires the defendants to pay one-third of the settlement fund in attorney fees, or $23 million, as well as $3.9 million in costs—as requested by plaintiffs' counsel.
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By Daniel J. Siegel | October 19, 2023
Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5 governs the types of fees attorneys can charge and outlines the way fee agreements must be tailored. The Pennsylvania Rule is modeled after ABA Model Rule 1.5.
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