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National Law Journal

Maybe Not an 'Anti-Trump Firm,' but Still Suing the White House Often

Don't call the Washington boutique shop Gupta Wessler an "anti-Trump law firm," said its founder, Deepak Gupta. A number of Trump-related policies fall squarely within the firm's core mission, he said, putting the lawyers there—an expanding group—in court in major fights against the White House.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Standing at the Crossroads of Legal Innovation

The law firm business model of the past is under attack. Slowly, private legal is responding with things like developing knowledge management systems, establishing jobs for data analysts who can establish pricing of services and beginning to look at ways to outline workflows and processes. Unfortunately, corporate clients are impatient and are beginning to push harder for improved efficiency and increased speed of service delivery.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Shkreli's Ex-Lawyer Faces 'Kafkaesque' Trial, Defense Attorneys Say

Indicted corporate lawyer Evan Greebel said it "shocks the conscience" that prosecutors haven't dropped a wire fraud conspiracy charge against him in light of the acquittal of his co-defendant, Martin Shkreli, on the same count. Greebel once worked at Katten Muchin Rosenman and Kaye Scholer.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Trump Teaches Big Law a Lesson

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is notching short-term gains at the risk of long-term pain from its most famous client, argues Steven J. Harper.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Real Fake News: Washington, DC's Unpredicted Solar Eclipse

How Mayer Brown's Richard Ben-Veniste earned a gold record for helping a client blot out the sun.
5 minute read

Is Change Now Unstoppable for Law Firm Billing?

It took less than 15 years after Steven Kobre founded Kobre & Kim for the New York-based firm to break into The Am Law 200.Within another…
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Your Move, Trump Lawyers. The Country Is Watching

Big law firms, the ones billing Trump full-freight—can make moral decisions about whom they choose to represent, whose agenda they want to help advance. Their response to the violence in Charlottesville? Crickets...
31 minute read

New York Law Journal

Accused Killer Robert Durst Among Israel Ambassador's Clients at Kasowitz Firm

Before he became U.S. ambassador to Israel, former Kasowitz Benson Torres bankruptcy partner David Friedman represented real estate heir Robert Durst, who is listed in Friedman's U.S. government ethics disclosure. The disclosure form also shows Friedman made about $2.7 million from his partnership share in 2016.
14 minute read

The American Lawyer

Is Change Now Unstoppable for Law Firm Billing?

New billing models are about to sweep the industry, according to one law firm leader who says alternative fees helped catapult his firm onto The Am Law 200 just 14 years after he founded it.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Nothing 'Negative' About Philadelphia Lawyers? Texans Talk It Over in Duane Morris Case

Is running a trial practice at a corporate Phlia. firm "kind of like being the second-best ballerina in Galveston"? Maybe to these Houston litigators.
20 minute read

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