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The American Lawyer

2020 Election Prompts More Lawyers to Speak Up

An increasing number of lawyers in Big Law and elsewhere are politically outspoken this year, while Joe Biden has an overwhelming share of the legal industry's financial contributions.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What's the Most Common Path to the General Counsel Seat?

Most companies look outside the firm when searching for the next chief lawyer. And serving as interim GC is far from a guarantee that the position will become permanent, according to a GC succession study from BarkerGilmore.
4 minute read

International Edition

We Bought Thousands of Laptops: Dentons' Chair on Tackling COVID-19 Globally

Dentons' Joe Andrew explains how he led a firm with more than 10,000 lawyers and more than 180 offices through the pandemic.
6 minute read

International Edition

Dentons Refreshes UK & Middle East Diversity Plan, Will Review Need For Targets

The firm said it will also publish its ethnicity pay gap for the arm in April 2021.
3 minute read

International Edition

We Cannot Let the Current Crisis Drag Us Backwards on Diversity

A&O senior partner Wim Dejonghe argues that lessons must be learned from the global financial crisis when considering how COVID-19 could reverse progress made on diversity.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Hawkins Parnell Elects Mast as First Woman Managing Partner

Christine Mast, one of Atlanta's best-known malpractice defense attorneys for lawyers, will continue to practice while serving as the litigation defense firm's leader.
5 minute read

International Edition

Reed Smith To Restore Partner Monthly Draws, Staff Pay in Full

The firm is rowing back its COVID-19 financial measures like many of its peers.
2 minute read

International Edition

'We're Through the Worst of It': KPMG's Global Head Sees Promising Future

Stuart Fuller says that the Asia-Pacific region, in particular, is strong and that legal work in Europe and in the Americas has been increasing.
6 minute read

Pro Mid Market

'Intentionality Matters': Day-to-Day Law Firm Management During COVID-19

"It requires a whole new skillset," or at least a "buffing up" of some skills, Graciela Gomez Cowger said of day-to-day law firm management in the pandemic age. That includes a recalibration of "when to push and when to hold back," she said. "The intentionality matters," Cowger added.
6 minute read

International Edition

Allen & Overy Partners Approve Lockstep Changes

Partners approved changes this week, after proposals were put to them earlier in October.
2 minute read

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