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March 19, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Bonuses With Strings Attached Play Role in Partner Retention

Firms like Kirkland & Ellis and DLA Piper have used forgivable loans to bat away offers from rivals and Shearman & Sterling has used them to incentivize partners in core areas at the firm to stick around for the merger with Allen & Overy.
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March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Big Energy and Pharma Deals Continue to Drive M&A

Five of the six announced deals over $1 billion in the last week occurred in either the life sciences or energy sector.
10 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Troutman Pepper Construction Team Jumps to Cozen O'Connor in LA

Marion Hack leads a team of six attorneys to Cozen, where she is reuniting with several former colleagues from Pepper Hamilton.
3 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

K&L Gates Beefs Up West Coast Corporate Practice With Hires From Reed Smith, Hanson Bridgett

Mattias Luukkonen and Michael Gorback are the latest California-based partners to join K&L Gates since the beginning of 2023, joining names from Tucker Ellis, Ellis George and Akin.
5 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Kirkland Seeks Dismissal as Defendant, Sanctions in Suit Against Former Bankruptcy Judge

Kirkland & Ellis seeks to be dismissed from a federal lawsuit filed against former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones that is connected to an undisclosed romantic relationship between Jones and Elizabeth Freeman, a former partner in Texas' Jackson Walker.
4 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Mayer Brown Sees Revenue and PEP Climb Amid Higher Demand, Drop in Equity Tier

The firm's 8.2% drop in equity partners helped push the firm's PEP up by about 4.4% to about $2.44 million. Revenue per lawyer ticked up 1% to nearly $1.01 million.
5 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Gibson Dunn Breaks $3B Revenue Mark With Litigation, Transactions Firing on All Cylinders

Gross revenue was up 12.3% while profits per equity partner rose 13.4% during the firm's 28th consecutive year of revenue growth.
6 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Firm Leader Exits Highlight Challenge of Filling Those Roles

"Very few people want to do it and many of those who want to do it aren't really qualified to do it, so you end up with a qualified pool that's really quite small."
5 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Lateral Hire Success: How to Measure It

There may not be a perfect way to categorize success, but there are well-known indicia law firms and lateral partners use every day to measure it, writes Ronald E. Wood.
6 minute read
March 18, 2024 | The American Lawyer

New Chair Elected at Kilpatrick

It's the first new chair in a decade for the firm, which has some 570 lawyers in 22 offices.
5 minute read

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