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As Sullivan & Cromwell celebrates the promotion of four women among five new partners, experts warn that more work needs to be done to shrink gender disparity in partnership ranks. The proportion of women partners has increased only four points to 19.2 percent in the last decade, according to NALP. And a recently released National Association of Women Lawyers survey found that the "vast majority" of part-time lawyers terminated by law firms in the last year were women, which the NAWL president calls a "disturbing trend."
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The Connecticut Law Tribune
Day Pitney has laid off 29 staff members across eight of the firm's nine offices stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C. In February, Day Pitney let go of 66 staff members firmwide, and in May, the firm dropped 20 lawyers.
Legal Week
Top 20 U.K. firm SJ Berwin is asking a number of partners to leave, with both equity and non-equity partners understood to have been affected. The firm would not clarify the precise number of partners impacted by the cull, beyond saying that "less than six" of its 170-strong partnership had been asked to go. At least three of the departing partners are understood to be in the firm's London real estate practice, but other practice areas have also been affected.
Texas Lawyer
Thompson & Knight partner J. Holt Foster has handled video game transactions for many years, but the high-profile deal he just negotiated for Tornado Studios stands out from the pack because it features a photo shoot instead of a shoot-'em-up. Foster helped the company ink a video game development and publishing license agreement for a game based on "Project Runway," a reality television show starring Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn. The game will be released in the spring of 2010 in the Nintendo Wii format.
The National Law Journal
A law school professor has withdrawn a suit accusing legal blog Above the Law of publishing a "viciously racist series of rants" after reporting his arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution. David Lat, the blog's managing editor, declined comment Thursday, but on Wednesday he wrote that there had been no settlement and that the posts Donald Marvin Jones complained about will remain on the site. Lat offered to let Jones make his case on Above the Law, but there was no word from Jones on that front as of Thursday.
Fulton County Daily Report
One of the side effects of lean economic times at Big Law is an increase in internal competition for work and hours, writes The Snark. In the boom times, there was more than enough work for all of Big Law's worker bees. But when the work gets slow, and everyone needs to fill their own billable-hour quotas, everyone starts scampering. The Snark addresses a couple of questions that Cogs wish they could ask, such as how to face a partner's wrath for answering a client's question while the partner was out.
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