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'Staggering' Jump in Law Firms Planning to Expand Nonequity Tiers: The Morning Minute

The news and analysis you need to start your day.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Boies Schiller Flexner Names Matthew Schwartz as Chair-Elect

Schwartz, who has served as co-managing partner of the firm for three years, will replace David Boies starting in 2025.
5 minute read

Law.com

Can the Distributed Law Firm Model Still Work?: The Morning Minute

The news and analysis you need to start your day.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Citing Health-Related Reasons, Proskauer's Chair to Step Down

Proskauer will have an election to fill Steven Ellis' position in January, with the newly elected chair taking the reins in April 2024, according to managing partner Daryn Grossman.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Despite FisherBroyles' Departures, Distributed Firm Model Is Here to Stay, Albeit With Modifications

"I give Kevin Broyles and James Fisher full credit for having this vision when they started in 2002," said Grant Walsh, who left FisherBroyles a decade ago to co-found Culhane Meadows, another distributed firm.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Midwest Firms Vote to Combine, Creating Fresh Am Law 200 Contender

Ulmer & Berne LLP and Greensfelder Hemker & Gale will be merging, effective Feb. 1, 2024. The new firm, UB Greensfelder, will have an estimated 275 attorneys across nine offices and an annual gross revenue of approximately $150 million, according to leaders.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

FisherBroyles Litigation and Corporate Leaders Depart, Presaging Mass Exodus From Am Law 200's First Distributed Firm

Joel Ferdinand and Michael Pierson, the former global managing partners of the firm's litigation and global corporate practices, have resigned and are planning to launch a new venture. They could be joined by 140 of their former colleagues.
3 minute read

Law.com

The Law Firm Disrupted: Many of Quinn Emanuel's NY Attorneys Don't Want to Work from 'Anywhere'

New York attorneys as a whole are making more use of their offices than other white collar workers in the region. But law firm occupancy trails Chicago and Houston.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law Mergers: How to Catch a Falling Knife

History suggests that acquiring a "falling knife firm" can be accretive for the acquiring firm but that it requires something of the order of a 30% reduction in the equity partner ranks at the acquired firm, Hugh Simons writes.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Law Firm Leaders May Be Tiring of the Job, But That's Not Why They've Been Leaving

An analysis by former Big Law partner Paul Denis of leadership departures over the past few decades shows recent changes may be based less on satisfaction and more on growing tenure length.
5 minute read

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