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The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I am a young lawyer and I want to start using credit cards since I am having difficulty getting clients to pay me. Are there any rules or regulations about using credit cards by an attorney?
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Editor's Note: Why We Created the Business of Law Forum

Our editorial team crafted a forum to bring together thought leaders on the tough questions facing the legal industry, all geared toward answering two broad questions: What needs to change and how do we do it?
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

From Pyramid to Pangea: A Hypothesis for the Future of Law Firm Talent

Law Firm Marketing columnist Marcie Borgal Shunk writes: As the connection between the billable hour and financial success becomes more tenuous, so too does the premise for advocating a highly leveraged business model comprised primarily of lawyers. The pyramid model the industry has grown to know and love may be coming to an end. What will surface in its place?
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

How Small and Midsize Law Firms Survived the Big Law Salary Hikes

In the summer of 2016, Cravath, Swaine & Moore rocked the legal world by raising starting salaries for associates from $160,000 to $180,000. Shortly…
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Conrad & Scherer Fights Former Partner in Case Resembling 'a John Grisham Novel'

The partner "abruptly resigned" in February 2009, “stealthily” taking 120 files.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

New Report Warns of a 'Wake-Up Call' for Stagnant Law Firms

"Consensual neglect?" An annual report from Georgetown University and Thomson Reuters states that many law firms are ignoring drastic changes occurring in the legal market.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: New Class Action Defense Tactic Gets Swatted Down as Bad Faith

"The complainant launched the proceedings primarily to harass the respondent," the WIPO panel found, plus Crowell & Moring's 2018 litigation forecast and big hires at Clifford Chance and Beveridge & Diamond.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

5 Jones Day Lawyers Jump to Holland & Knight in Mexico City

The move includes high-profile partner Luis Rubio Barnetche, who will lead the office as executive partner.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

In Chicago, Zach Fardon Is Making His Mark at King & Spalding

"There is a right way and a wrong way to grow," says former U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon, who is busy staffing King & Spalding's new Chicago office with top former prosecutors.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Raising Its Bet on Analytics, Littler Adds First Chief Data Analytics Officer

Aaron Crews, who had prior stints as GC of legal artificial intelligence company Text IQ and global head of e-discovery at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., will be based in Sacramento.
5 minute read

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