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The American Lawyer

Law Firm Recruitment Activity Steady, But Summer Programs Shrink

A new survey by the National Association for Law Placement finds that entry-level recruitment efforts across law firms remain steady and robust following a period of volatility following the recession, suggesting that growth efforts by law firms have reached their peak.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Protecting Trade Secrets and Preventing Frontal Lobotomies

Waymo v. Uber—the recent battle royale over the future of self-driving car technology—ended in a settlement between the parties, but an important legal question remains decidedly unsettled. In the words of Judge William H. Alsup, who presided over the case: “Is an engineer really supposed to get a frontal lobotomy before they go to the next job?”
7 minute read

The Recorder

Make Your Own Luck. Here's How to Do It

Luck is earned. Through years of relationship building, skill development, career strategy, success, failure, crisis, perseverance, optimism and courage.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Not-So-Gentle Art of Fostering Self-Selection

We often forget that hiring is a two-way street—but we forget this at our own peril. The best, most enduring hires work out that way not only because the candidate is right for the company but also because the company is right for that candidate.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Schiff Hardin Bags Commercial Litigator Beugelmans in Bay Area

Mauricio Beugelmans, a former executive director and compliance counsel at Morgan Stanley who set up his own private practice in 2009, has joined Schiff Hardin in San Francisco.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Kozyak Tropin Names Lopez-Castro Managing Partner

Cori Lopez-Castro served before as managing partner at the litigation boutique where partners rotate through the position, encouraging diverse selections.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Au Pairs of the World, Unite; The Check is (Not) in the Mail

A class action by Boies Schiller Flexner claiming au pairs are underpaid has cleared another major hurdle; The latest setback for a Baker McKenzie client who has been trying since 2014 to get paid after an arbitration panel in London awarded him $84 million.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Makes an In-House Career Satisfying? It's Not About the Money

Compensation matters. But while everyone knows that a select group of general counsel are paid handsomely, the fact remains that “BigLaw” law firm attorneys make more versus most of their experience-level counterparts in-house.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Chair Too Far? No. We Need to Support Diverse Talent in Phila.

In an editorial that appeared on Aug. 8, 2017, in the New York Times, Shira A. Scheindlin, a retired Federal District Court judge for the Southern District of New York, wrote a compelling argument outlining the lack of women as first chair in major litigation.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Tale From the War Room: How One Law Firm Started 2018 Right

I thought I would begin 2018 by telling you about a very industrious and special law firm that will remain—anonymous—who has begun the year in an outstanding way from a marketing perspective. I have the great privilege of working with some of the best lawyers in the state and this firm is at the top of my list—now more than ever.
5 minute read

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