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The American Lawyer

Clients Pushing Hard for Diversity? Not Exactly

Maybe it's because I get jaded easily, but I just can't get myself excited that the legal profession is really getting on the stick about diversity or women.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Award-Winning Litigation Tracking Tool Lifts a Burden for Ricoh Lawyers

Ricoh and Reed Smith developed a shared software tool to track employment litigation matters and create a "knowledge center" accessible by in-house employment lawyers.
24 minute read

The Recorder

Client Call for Greater Diversity at Fever Pitch

As legal departments narrow their rosters of outside counsel to shortlists of preferred providers, they have greater leverage to set more rigorous diversity and inclusion expectations.
23 minute read

Legaltech News

Social Media Sleuthing of Job Candidates Could Be Risky Business

Some employment lawyers have begun to encourage having hiring partners and direct managers walled off from their subordinates' social media accounts.
11 minute read

Legaltech News

GC Data Sharing Plan Is 'Wake-Up Call' for Law Firms

A group of 25 general counsel announced a plan to share and analyze data on the law firms they use and the outcomes they achieve, which elicited both trepidation and excitement.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Brandstetter to Lead Schnader Defense, Investigations Group

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis has turned to one of its newest partners to replace the firm's recently departed white-collar and corporate investigations chairman.
16 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Houston Lawyer Helps Chicago Law Firm Get Out of Texas Bank Scam Case

Houston lawyer Bill Luyties represents a small Chicago law firm that does no business in Texas, other than when it unwittingly attempted to deposit a huge counterfeit check drawn off an account in the Lone Star State as part of a bank scam. And Luyties recently convinced Houston's First Court of Appeals that the mere act of depositing a phony check is not enough reason to allow a bank to sue the Illinois law firm in a Texas court. And that ruling will be a great relief to other out-of-state law firms who get used by crooks in illegal Texas financial schemes, he said.
11 minute read

Legaltech News

Cravath Inks Deal With AI Company Part-Owned by Top UK Firm

Cravath, Swaine & Moore has joined the law firms turning to AI by signing a deal with British software company Luminance.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas' Loudest Lawyer Celebrates Fourth of July With Exploding Hat of Fireworks

Brian Wilson blows up the internet, again — this time with bottle rockets.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Why Associates Leave and How You Can Get Them to Stay

When a seemingly happy and successful associate announces the decision to move on, his or her firm can be left feeling shocked and confused. This article provides insight behind these moves, and what law firms can do to make their top associates want to stay.
11 minute read

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