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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

The Recorder

'I Expect Better': Judge Denies California State Bar's Bid to Shut Down LegalMatch and Expresses Disappointment in Agency Counsel

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman criticized the State Bar of California after it moved forward with a motion for a temporary restraining order against LegalMatch, despite the company submitting its application to register as a lawyer referral service.
4 minute read

The Recorder

California Bar Claims LegalMatch Is Defying Attorney Referral Law

A spokeswoman for the bar said agency attorneys will go to court Thursday to seek a temporary restraining order.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New Program Links Out-of-Work Lawyers to Legal Departments Overwhelmed by Coronavirus Impact

New Cadence Counsel CEO Monique Burt Williams, who assumed her position at the Los Angeles-based firm Monday, said the program is no cost to the lawyers looking for work or to the corporations for two weeks when they receive newly placed lawyers.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Exasperated Texas Judge Warns Lawyers in Recruiter Case Against 'Game Playing'

U.S. magistrate judge Andrew Austin expressed frustration with the defendant's lawyers from DLA Piper, as the parties argue over process rather than the facts of the case.
4 minute read

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