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Firms Starting to Take Hard Line on Law Directories
What is the single biggest marketing expense at many large law firms? Surprisingly, it's often the firm's entry in the venerable Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory -- a potential outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for some firms. But even as competitors try to get in on the directory bonanza, a number of law firms are beginning to take a hard line on directory spending in the first place.Law School to Simulate Big-Firm Environment
Starting next year, the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will call on all third-year students to participate in its new Law Firm Program, a series of courses that simulates big-firm lawyering. "It's a blend of academics and practice," says Baker & McKenzie partner Craig Roeder, who served on the advisory board to revise the school's curriculum. The courses are a response to criticism from the legal profession directed at law schools generally that graduates are not ready to practice law.'NLJ 250' Shows Strong Law Firm Growth Continuing
The 250 largest law firms in the U.S. grew by 4 percent in 2006, a figure that was just shy of the prior year's gains, according to The National Law Journal's 29th annual survey. The results indicate a "healthy legal economy" spurred by strong mergers and acquisitions activity and big-ticket litigation, said one law firm consultant. And while law firms used to base their mergers on geography and size for size's sake, they now take a much more strategic approach, said another consultant.International Law Firms Eye Deutschland
In the latest of a growing number of law firm mergers in Germany, one of that country's largest firms, Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Lober, based in Dusseldorf, merged with London's Freshfields. The new firm will be 1,850-lawyers strong, with offices in 19 countries. The Freshfields move marked at least the fifth time this year that a German firm has participated in an international merger.Trending Stories
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