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The American Lawyer

In Bid to Retain Talent, Quinn Emanuel Creates New Bonus Pool

Second- through sixth-year associates at bonus-happy Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan will receive supplemental rewards based on the firm's performance, chairman John Quinn announced in a memo Tuesday. But there's a catch.
24 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Sexy Associate and the Seductive Partner? Ex-Lawyer Has Written Them All

The writer Seelie Kay—that's a pseudonym—used to work at large law firms in Milwaukee. But over the past year, she has spun the fairly mundane into erotic fantasy by writing dozens of short stories about lawyers, judges and others in the legal profession in various states of undress and ecstasy.
12 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law's Newest Competition for Talent Is an Old Foe

While attrition rates are still relatively low as associates bask in the glow of their salary increases, when they do leave, it is often for perks that have nothing to do with money.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Amid Mounting Losses, 12 Sedgwick Lawyers Move to Robinson & Cole

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.
22 minute read

The American Lawyer

How Law Firms Are Adapting to Meet Millennials' Needs and Why That's Good for Clients

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.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Heather Heyer's Law Firm Starts Foundation in Her Honor

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.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

2017 Midlevel Associate Survey

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.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Regional Take: Associate Satisfaction by City

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.
1 minute read

The American Lawyer

Top Firms For Midlevel Associate Satisfaction: The National Rankings

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.
1 minute read

The American Lawyer

After Wedding, an Associate's Overbilling Leads to a Suspension

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.
26 minute read

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