By Tom McParland | June 25, 2018
A Delaware Superior Court judge has awarded Drinker Biddle & Reath $41,000 in attorney fees for recovering $1 million on behalf of its clients in a breach of contract case against Texas-based machining services firm Integra Services Technologies Inc.
By Meghan Tribe | June 15, 2018
Unsupportable, unavoidable, or both? Check out the latest news and analysis on the associate pay raises spreading across top law firms.
By J. Mark Santiago | June 15, 2018
Raising Costs and Declining Demand are Sapping Profits
The “New Normal” of today is one in which raising operating costs, associate salary increases, and reduced realization rates coupled with AFAs and demands from corporate counsel for reduced rates are sapping firm profits and there is no relief on the horizon. Law firm leaders, seeing current conditions, should be asking if there is a better way.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Lizzy McLellan | June 14, 2018
Several elite litigation boutiques are keeping pace with salary increases at Milbank and Cravath. One hints it's about to go even higher.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 8, 2018
"The EEOC's theory was not that fruitless. Precedent may not have favored it, but the fee statute does not punish a civil rights litigant for pursuing a novel, even if ambitious, theory," Seventh Circuit Chief Justice Diane Wood wrote Friday. Jones Day's Eric Dreiband was chief counsel for CVS in the litigation.
By Christine Simmons | June 4, 2018
The pay increase could result in differentiation among law firms, observers say.
By Ryan Lovelace | May 17, 2018
It's easy to be impressed by individual partner rates approaching $2,000 an hour, but the widening gap between whole categories of law firms may mean more for the industry's future.
By Scott Flaherty | May 16, 2018
A new survey of business-side professionals at law firms showed that optimism is high in the industry, while innovation is increasingly important to the largest firms.
By Scott Flaherty | May 15, 2018
A simmering and long-running legal battle between energy company Drummond and an active human rights lawyer has spun off accusations of witness payments.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | May 15, 2018
Not all lawyers looked kindly upon the 3,600 hours one lawyer billed in 2017.
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