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The American Lawyer

Top Partner Pay at Simpson Thacher to Breach $20M

The New York firm joins several elite peers in stretching the spread in equity partner compensation, as competition for top earners intensifies.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Noncompetes and Legal Recruiting: How Has It Been Going and How Will the New Ban Change Things?  

Law firms and legal recruiters are stuck together—like it or not—but they each have a different set of rules, one is regulated and the other is not. Unlike regulated industries, some legal recruiting firms have made their own set of rules that can change on a dime and disrupt the entire market, especially when it comes to their noncompetes and traveling confidential information.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Mintz Hires Manatt's Data Privacy Leader, 2 Colleagues in Boston Expansion

Scott Lashway, who had founded Manatt's Boston office in 2019, now serves as co-chair of Mintz's data privacy and cybersecurity practice.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

The FTC's New Noncompete Rule Does Not Solve the Real Challenge Ediscovery Business Development Professionals Have When Changing Employers

The abolition of noncompetes is empowering for job-seekers, but it does not eliminate the real challenge of replicating historical sales success during the kickoff of new sales employment.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Blank Rome Recruits 25 Burns & Levinson Lawyers to Launch Boston Office

The hires give the Philadelphia-founded firm its 16th office along with a new cannabis practice.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Why the Future of Talent Management Could Look Very Different

With the introduction and accelerating adoption of efficiency-generating technologies, the way lawyers are recruited and developed is likely to undergo some interesting changes.
12 minute read

The American Lawyer

FTC's Noncompete Ban Could Encourage Mobility Among Legal Recruiters

Headhunting firms have used covenants to prevent their employees from leaving. Now these firms could become more vulnerable to poaching.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Associate Talent Market Cools, as Local Firms Refine Retention Strategies

"They could be happier financially or happier culturally, but there are less disgruntled attorneys at their current firms looking to get out," said Alevistar Legal Search founder Brian Levinson.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Fired Recruiter's Sexual Assault Suit Against Major, Lindsey & Africa Abandoned by Bankruptcy Trustee

New York recruiter Sharon Mahn says that she intends to pursue the claim herself once it is released from her bankruptcy estate.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Lateral Hire Success: How to Measure It

There may not be a perfect way to categorize success, but there are well-known indicia law firms and lateral partners use every day to measure it, writes Ronald E. Wood.
6 minute read

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