By Roy Strom | August 28, 2017
A group of 12 lawyers, including four partners, have joined Am Law 200 firm Robinson & Cole in New York and Miami in the latest round of defections from the reeling Sedgwick, which has lost more than 30 partners so far this year.
By Meghan Tribe | August 28, 2017
Law firms' biggest asset is their talent, and forward-thinking firms are bending traditional rules to make their organization attractive to the millennial talent pool. It has the positive side-effect of meeting client needs, too.
By Meghan Tribe | August 28, 2017
A day after the MTV Video Music Awards honored Heather Heyer, a legal assistant killed earlier this month in Charlottesville, Virginia, a high-powered entertainment industry law firm announced Monday that it would be among the first to support her former employer in its effort to start a nonprofit organization in her memory.
By americanlawyer | August 28, 2017
Midlevel associates at the nation's largest law firms are pleased as punch, according to results from our annual survey of third-, fourth- and fifth-year associates. Smiling from salary increases and interesting work, associates gave their scores high marks this year.
By americanlawyer | August 28, 2017
Here are how firms were scored in individual offices around the country. The scores, ranks and number of respondents pertain just to the firm's office in the city indicated, not to the firm as a whole. Only offices with at least five responses are listed.
By americanlawyer | August 28, 2017
Overall scores for associate satisfaction ticked up in most categories in our annual Midlevel Associate Survey. Our survey examined several aspects of job satisfaction for third-, fourth- and fifth-year associates. They include compensation and benefits, training and guidance, interaction with partners and other associates, the interest and satisfaction level of the work, the firm's policy on billable hours and management's openness about firm strategies and partnership chances. Midlevels graded their workplaces on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest score. Below, firms with 10 or more responses are ranked by their averages on those questions. The response rate is the percentage of eligible midlevels at the firm who participated in the survey.
By Roy Strom | August 24, 2017
A former Faegre Baker Daniels associate's law license was suspended for nine months after she inflated or fabricated time entries worth nearly $40,000 to meet a billable hour expectation. Inexcusable, sure. But an expert said it is symptomatic of the pressure Big Law lawyers face to meet hourly requirements.
By Scott Flaherty | August 24, 2017
A former Steptoe & Johnson associate urged a Los Angeles federal court not to send a proposed class action into private arbitration, arguing…
By Dena Lefkowitz | August 23, 2017
Every year, new books on leadership come out and the business world hungrily buys, reads and digests them. Book summary companies provide compressed descriptions for busy executives, professional service providers and entrepreneurs.
By Scott Flaherty | August 23, 2017
A former Steptoe & Johnson associate urged a Los Angeles federal court not to send a proposed class action into private arbitration, arguing that case law should prevent the firm from burying her gender bias allegations in a secret proceeding.
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