By Meghan Tribe | November 9, 2017
The number of women promoted to partner reached a six-year high in 2017, but women still only account for 38.1 percent of all new partners among top law firms, according to a new report.
By Meredith Hobbs | November 9, 2017
Law firms were more more likely than other big businesses to earn perfect scores on the Human Rights Campaign's latest survey of how employers treat their LGBT workforce.
By Scott Flaherty | November 9, 2017
Resolving a discovery dispute in a $100 million gender discrimination case against Chadbourne & Parke, a magistrate judge allowed review of certain firm leaders' personal email accounts.
By Miriam Rozen | November 9, 2017
How firms can win work from a general counsel who sets “value as his North Star and diversity as his passion.”
By Angela Morris | November 9, 2017
Service to School's applicants have made it into the highest-rated law schools in the nation, including Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Texas School of Law.
By Christine Simmons | November 8, 2017
Lawyers for three former Chadbourne partners are asking to dig into the personal email accounts of the firm leaders named in a $100 million gender discrimination lawsuit.
By Meghan Tribe | November 8, 2017
At a national summit hosted by the American Bar Association at Harvard Law School this week, law firm leaders and general counsel are beginning the conversation as to why women are leaving the legal profession in the latter part of their careers.
By Sue Reisinger | November 8, 2017
The study from Acritas Research specified an ideal range for internal legal spend as a proportion of total spend.
By Erin Mulvaney | November 8, 2017
Jones Day lawyers are seeking hundreds of thousands in legal fees from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying federal regulators unfairly targeted CVS Pharmacy Inc. for alleged employment abuses that no judge sustained. Eric Dreiband, the lead partner for CVS in the litigation, is the Trump administration's pick to lead the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The dispute provides a peek into the billing practices of Jones Day.
By Joseph Evans | November 8, 2017
The penalty is double the previous record fine, which was handed out to White & Case earlier this year for conflict and confidentiality failures.
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