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Corporate Counsel

Wanted: Midlevel In-House Attorneys Who Can Communicate With Business Partners Alone

"No one should complain that the business calls too much," John Gilmore, co-founder and managing partner at BarkerGilmore, said. "That is when the promotional opportunities come; when GCs hear from the business."
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Hiring Is Driven Not by Who You Know, but by Who You Are

Job seekers with traits such as integrity and adaptability are valued now, even more than GPA or law review or bar passage score.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Leading the Way for Social Change: A Prolonged and Focused Path

Over the last several weeks, law firm leaders have begun to reexamine their firm's participation and investment in diversity and other similar programs (both internal and external). It is understood that firms can help address an underlying cause of racial and other inequalities—i.e., representation, by earnestly supporting and fostering diversity and inclusion in a broader sense.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Diversity and Inclusion: What Your Law Firm Can Do

In conversation after conversation in recent weeks, I've found a similar theme popping up—those who want to do more at their law firms but simply don't know where to start.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Corporate Attorney Esuga Abaya on Journey From Big Law to Boutique

"I found more fulfillment working with startups and small businesses, and especially leveraging my expertise to help Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs."
10 minute read

The Recorder

Recruiter Joe Macrae Dishes on Hiring By Zoom and What the Pandemic Has Meant for Lateral Partner Moves

"If partners in the firms start to see a tranche of firms that are outperforming the average, you could see an additional wave of partner moves," Macrae says. "In a bull market where all firms are doing well and all boats are rising, it is arguably hard to see a reason to move."
8 minute read

The Recorder

How Trump's Latest Suspension of Worker Visas Could Affect Tech Industry

"If you're a company who is hoping to bring intracompany transferees into the U.S. or new H-1Bs into the U.S., it's going to hit your bottom line," said Kelli Duehning of Berry Appleman & Leiden in San Francisco.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

COVID-19 and Executive Pay

In his Executive Compensation column, Joseph E. Bachelder III looks at the impact COVID-19 may have on executive compensation.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Hiring Gains Strength Despite Recession Threat

"One of the things we saw [from 2008 to 2010] is that when the economy takes a hit, corporations will move to hire in-house attorneys because it can be a cost-saver," Alice Rafalko, a senior legal consultant at Beacon Hill Legal in Philadelphia, said.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Non-solicitation Rule Lifted in NY Fashion Agencies' Heated Battle Over 'Mass Exodus' of 55 Models

What exactly occurred with the alleged poaching or "conspiracy designed to destroy" Men Women N.Y. Management by Elite Model Management was not before the Appellate Division, First Department, an injunction order on soliciting models away was. That legal issue was decided. The substance of why 55 models suddenly left Men Women N.Y. last spring and summer must still be hashed out.
6 minute read

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