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The American Lawyer

Young Lawyers Wanted: The American Lawyer Is Forming a YL Editorial Board

How we are changing, and a call for submissions to join our new board.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

With Better Pay, and Fewer Options, Associates Stay Put at Their Firms

Despite perennial complaints among associates about life in Big Law, rising paychecks, greater attention to associate satisfaction and a more cautious lateral market may be keeping young lawyers at their firms longer.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Summer Associates Get Legal Business Boot Camp at Montgomery McCracken

The firm hopes to teach its aspiring lawyers a key skill they probably didn't get in law school: how to win clients.
15 minute read

The American Lawyer

Schiff Hardin Spinoff Riley Safer Adds 11 Lawyers in Chicago

Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, a firm formed in 2016 by a large group of ex-Schiff Hardin partners, has hired nearly a dozen lawyers led by Bryan Cave's Chicago managing partner Joseph McCoy and Schiff Hardin's antitrust leader and noted sports industry litigator Gregory Curtner. All but two of the firm's new hires are African American.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

20 Firms to Watch: The A-List Runners Up

The runners-up to the 2017 A-List—and what it will take for these firms to make the list next year.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

A Former Part-Timer Now Leads Baker McKenzie's Home Office

Baker McKenzie announced Wednesday the appointment of parental leave policy advocate Regine Corrado, a partner in its corporate and securities group, as managing partner of its office in Chicago, where the global legal giant has its roots.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Do Law Firms Enable Alcoholism?

A culture of work-related drinking persists in many places in Big Law—and that can cause problems in a profession that is especially prone to heavy drinking.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Who Says California's Bar Exam Is Too Tough?

Over the last year California's bar exam has been scrutinized and vilified. But that hasn't stopped a crush of would-be Golden State lawyers from registering for the latest crucible, which starts Tuesday. Applications to take the July bay exam topped 10,000 this year—an increase over last year's numbers.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Attorney's Pro Bono Immigration Work Lauded

Jones Day associate Bárbara Santisteban received the 2017 Champion for Justice Award from Her Justice, a legal organization that helps impoverished and abused women and children.
1 minute read

The American Lawyer

Linklaters Associate Denies Wrongdoing in Insider Trading Case

A pristine start to a Big Law career has been derailed for a former editor-in-chief of Harvard Law School's International Law Review who joined Linklaters in 2015.
18 minute read

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