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Meghan Tribe is a reporter covering the changing face of Big Law, from lateral moves and work-from-home programs to diversity initiatives. Contact her at mtribe@alm.com. On Twitter: @TribeMeghan
November 12, 2018
While some law firms are taking steps to address depression and other mental health problems, lawyers are still more likely to kill themselves than workers in most other professions.
November 09, 2018
As more law firms drop gender and caregiver status distinctions from family leave policies, the biggest impact may be on LGBT lawyers and their partners.
November 09, 2018
As more law firms drop gender and caregiver status distinctions from family leave policies, the biggest impact may be on LGBT lawyers and their partners.
November 07, 2018
Fatter associate salaries have meant for slimmer hiring bonuses, especially in certain markets, according to a recruiter's analysis.
November 05, 2018
New mothers at Fenwick & West can now take as much as 29 weeks of paid time off, and any attorney or staffer can take 16 weeks regardless of gender or caregiver status.
November 05, 2018
New mothers at Fenwick & West can now take as much as 29 weeks of paid time off, and any attorney or staffer can take 16 weeks regardless of gender or caregiver status.
November 01, 2018
In a year that's been packed with law firm mergers, the deal between Venable and 100-lawyer Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto was one of the largest.
October 30, 2018
A new survey conducted by nonprofit ChIPs and the Diversity Lab seeks to move the needle forward by examining law firms’ efforts to promote the inclusion and advancement of women in IP.
October 30, 2018
A new survey conducted by nonprofit ChIPs and the Diversity Lab seeks to move the needle forward by examining law firms’ efforts to promote the inclusion and advancement of women in IP.
October 30, 2018
Founder John Pierce claims his young firm has "cracked the code of building a law firm for the digital age.”
October 29, 2018
The combination will give Connecticut-based Day Pitney new offices in Miami and West Palm Beach.
October 26, 2018
Amy Maloney is leaving Latham and relocating from New York to join Morgan Lewis' growing project finance and infrastructure practice.
October 26, 2018
Carlos Concepción, who joined Jones Day in 2015, will become chairman of the global arbitration practice at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in November.
October 23, 2018
Litigator and boutique law firm founder John Hanify helped Jones Day launch its Boston office in 2011.
October 23, 2018
Matthew Roose has represented major creditors in the bankruptcies of Energy Future Holdings, Forbes Energy Services, Extended Stay Hotels, and Washington Mutual Inc.
October 22, 2018
For nearly 120 years, Choate Hall & Stewart has stuck with its one-office approach in Boston, and put up some of the best financial numbers in the country. As competition floods into town, the firm is ready to be put to the test.
October 19, 2018
By spotlighting stories of women in law firms, in-house legal departments and the judiciary, Allison Stewart hopes to inspire others to find similar success.
October 19, 2018
The firm has hired Kenneth Juster, a financial services regulatory expert who has worked at K&L Gates and White & Case.
October 17, 2018
Firm restates growth targets after London hiring spree and record partnership round
October 17, 2018
With a bumper crop of new partners just announced and two years left to reach ambitious strategic targets, White & Case's U.S. growth leader says the firm is plowing ahead.
October 12, 2018
Marc Barbeau, a longtime partner at Montreal-based Stikeman Elliott, has assumed leadership of the firm.
October 11, 2018
Leon Cain, a 3L at Stanford Law School who had recently signed on to begin his career at Wachtell, died last month from what a medical examiner described Thursday as "multiple blunt force injuries."
October 11, 2018
Leon Cain, a 3L at Stanford Law School who had recently signed on to begin his career at Wachtell, died last month from what a medical examiner described Thursday as "multiple blunt force injuries."
October 11, 2018
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is the latest big firm to add an executive position with a talent management and diversity focus.
October 11, 2018
With Burford Capital "sitting atop a pile of money," the company thinks it's found a new way to help close the legal industry's gender gap.
October 10, 2018
A survey found that given the legal industry's current growth rate, it would take nearly a century for women to make up half of the equity partnership tier.
October 10, 2018
With Burford Capital "sitting atop a pile of money," the company thinks it's found a new way to help close the legal industry's gender gap.
October 10, 2018
With Burford Capital "sitting atop a pile of money," the company thinks it's found a new way to help close the legal industry's gender gap.
October 10, 2018
Era Anagnosti is joining the firm's Washington office amid a growth spurt and a doubling-down on its capital markets practice.
October 08, 2018
The two Am Law 200 firms have absorbed the bulk of smaller outfits in Minneapolis and Las Vegas, including one that once advised the inventor of the Tilt-A-Whirl theme park ride.
October 05, 2018
Facing frustration—and sometimes litigation—over their approach to motherhood and parental leave, law firms are wrestling with how far to go to support new parents.
October 01, 2018
With six partners and a national practice, the group gives White & Case a bigger Chicago presence and a deeper real estate bench.
September 27, 2018
The firm says having a diverse talent pool shouldn't just be a goal for partners and associates.
September 26, 2018
New York-based Sandra Bang, who was named Shearman & Sterling’s chief diversity and talent strategy officer, said. “the firm, along with its senior leaders and everyone else—partners, associates, business services—really thought about how can we, as a firm, take this to the next level."
September 26, 2018
With prominent partners leaving to start their own inclusion-focused ventures, and more law firms adding chief diversity officers to their management ranks, advancing diversity is becoming serious business.
September 24, 2018
After years of globalization, some firms are pulling back to focus on building a stronger platform in the world's most lucrative legal market.
September 21, 2018
Bruce Wickersham, a Pennsylvania native whose body was discovered off a Massachusetts marina, was a longtime partner in DLA Piper's Boston office.
September 21, 2018
For Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht—which aims to beat firms like Quinn Emanuel at their own game—client George Papadopoulos is the firm's first foray into the legal drama surrounding Russia and the election of President Donald Trump.
September 18, 2018
The firm is beefing up its stable of former prosecutors in the Northeast with former SDNY prosecutor Jason Halperin and ex-Boston DA Daniel Conley.
September 18, 2018
The firm is beefing up its stable of former prosecutors in the Northeast with former SDNY prosecutor Jason Halperin and ex-Boston DA Daniel Conley.
September 17, 2018
The fast-growing Salt Lake City office is now the firm's second largest in the country.
September 14, 2018
Sandra Bang will be the Shearman's first chief diversity and talent strategy officer—and the latest in a string of new diversity-focused executives at big firms.
September 12, 2018
Nutter McClennen & Fish looked to a local boutique to grow its IP group after a leading partner departed for Womble Bond Dickinson.
September 10, 2018
Cain, 27, who was bound for a job as an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, was found unresponsive in the early morning hours of Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C.
September 10, 2018
Leon Cain, a student at Stanford Law School, was found unresponsive in the early morning hours of Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C.
September 10, 2018
Leon Cain, a student at Stanford Law School, was found unresponsive in the early morning hours of Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C.
September 07, 2018
A new study from the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College says law firms and in-house legal departments are barely moving the needle when it comes to combating gender and racial discrimination.
September 07, 2018
Law firms and in-house legal departments are barely moving the needle when it comes to combating gender and racial discrimination, a new report said. But researchers said even implicit bias can be countered.
September 06, 2018
“There’s a significant amount of business here, and therefore a lot of good firms either are here or are trying to come here into this market,” partner Daniel Young said of the firm's Minneapolis move.
September 06, 2018
The move by Andrew Parlen comes after his O'Melveny colleague George Davis left to help lead Latham's bankruptcy practice in June.
September 04, 2018
Withers has welcomed Emma Lindsay as head of its international arbitration practice in New York.
September 04, 2018
Pedro Jimenez, who helped Jones Day head to Miami in 2013, is leaving South Florida for Paul Hastings, which has hired him for its corporate restructuring practice in New York.
August 29, 2018
Timothy Busch, a philanthropist and attorney who runs his own law firm and foundation in Orange County, made news this week for his backing of a high-profile letter sent to the Vatican.
August 28, 2018
Results from The American Lawyer’s 2018 Midlevel Associates Survey show that midlevel associates in Manhattan aren't as happy as those in Dallas or Los Angeles, but they're much more satisfied than their colleagues in other major markets.
August 27, 2018
"We now have added an all-star with two R’s [in] Judge Ken Starr,” said Mark Lanier about his longtime personal friend and newly named counsel at The Lanier Law Firm.
August 27, 2018
"This was not a responsibility I was actively seeking, but is a natural outgrowth of our common interests and the good we believe we can do together," Starr said.
August 27, 2018
"This was not a responsibility I was actively seeking, but is a natural outgrowth of our common interests and the good we believe we can do together," said a statement from the former U.S. solicitor general, independent counsel and federal judge.
August 23, 2018
The firm, which sailed into the Windy City this summer, has returned to Greenberg Traurig to beef up its new local operations.
August 21, 2018
Less than a year after launching in Boston, Womble is adding a former practice leader from a leading Beantown firm.
August 21, 2018
When it comes to bias or even sexual harassment allegations, partners may not always know which of their colleagues has been accused—or how those claims are resolved.
August 20, 2018
Paul Matey is the latest partner to join Lowenstein Sandler's growing white-collar group. “I’ve got a list and I’m going down it," litigation department chair Christopher Porrino said of his aggressive recruitment push.
August 20, 2018
Over 40 law firms can now call themselves Mansfield certified, and Holland & Knight is on a shortlist for leadership achievements.
August 20, 2018
Over 40 law firms, including four based in Pennsylvania, can now call themselves "Mansfield Certified."
August 20, 2018
Over 40 law firms can now call themselves "Mansfield Certified."
August 17, 2018
Deals@Milbank is the latest in a suite of associate training initiatives at the firm, one of several law firms to beef up its programs for young lawyers in recent months.
August 16, 2018
New partner Philip Bowman said Cooley's bet on emerging companies could help it become "the law firm of the economy of the next 10, 20, 30 years."
August 14, 2018
After a successful launch, the firm said it's already seeing some "exciting" resumes for next year's legal technology summer associate program.
August 13, 2018
After a successful launch, the firm said it's already seeing some "exciting" resumes for next year's legal technology summer associate program.
August 06, 2018
Thomas Draper, a longtime head of the finance group at Ropes & Gray, has joined Foley Hoag as a partner in its business department and co-chair of its debt finance practice in Boston.
August 03, 2018
"I would say within five to seven years, we’re going to replace Quinn Emanuel as the next dominant global litigation firm, no question," said former Quinn Emanuel partner John Pierce, now managing partner of Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht.
August 02, 2018
"I would say within five to seven years, we’re going to replace Quinn Emanuel as the next dominant global litigation firm, no question," said former Quinn Emanuel partner John Pierce, now managing partner of Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht.
August 01, 2018
Choate, Hall & Stewart added seasoned in-house attorney Susan Yoon Parker as a partner as competition for private equity sector work stays fierce.
July 31, 2018
Cadwalader "is poised to be one of the firms that is going to really be in control of the next M&A cycle,” said new partner Joel Mitnick in New York, who was global co-head of Sidley Austin's antitrust group.
July 27, 2018
Dentons says adding a quintet from real estate boutique McLean & Kerr is just part of its plan to beef up north of the border.
July 25, 2018
Counsels Colin Kelly and Aubry Smith took their investment-focused practices to Fried Frank and Mayer Brown, respectively.
July 24, 2018
After a decade in-house at Goldman Sachs, an associate general counsel for the financial services giant's litigation and regulatory proceedings group is returning to private practice at Cooley.
July 23, 2018
In its first lateral hire since launching a Chicago office last month, White & Case has recruited from another global legal giant to supplement its ranks in the Windy City.
July 19, 2018
Bryan Zerhusen said the Am Law 100 firm had been losing intellectual property and life sciences lawyers, and Connecticut's Cantor Colburn offered the right support for his practice.
July 18, 2018
Just months after joining Kirkland & Ellis' growing Boston practice, tax partner Scott Jones is headed back to Proskauer Rose.
July 17, 2018
Amid a boom in global deals, the Atlanta-based firm is formalizing a labor and employment-focused M&A practice.
July 16, 2018
Latham & Watkins counsel Geoffrey Kuziemko jumped to O'Melveny.
July 16, 2018
Edward "Ted" Hassi joined Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, while Latham & Watkins' Geoffrey Kuziemko jumped to O'Melveny in California.
July 13, 2018
Dennis Williams joins Kirkland as the firm continues to build out its private equity offerings for health care clients.
July 12, 2018
Less than a month after law firm and in-house participants delivered a first batch of diversity-themed “hacks” for the legal industry, a new crop of ideas is already beginning to take shape.
July 12, 2018
After allegations of sexual misconduct rocked the country's legal industry, Zoe Lawton made it her mission to collect as many victims' accounts as she could.
July 11, 2018
Leveraged finance partners Michael Michetti and Joel Simon are joining Pillsbury's global finance team in New York.
July 10, 2018
Jane Greyf is returning to Latham & Watkins, where she began her career nearly two decades ago.
July 09, 2018
Paul Saltzman left his position earlier this year as the head of Deutsche Bank’s Americas global transaction banking and payments group.
June 26, 2018
Desmarais, an IP litigation firm founded by ex-Kirkland partner John Desmarais, said first-year lawyers will now make $210,000, with $20,000 raises for each associate class.
June 25, 2018
From start to finish, Hinshaw & Culbertson's Boston move took less than six months.
June 22, 2018
HSF's New York associates join $190k crowd as firm matches Cravath rates
June 22, 2018
The U.K. firm said its associates in New York will join the $190,000 crowd, but additional bonuses—and raises in London—aren't certain for now.
June 22, 2018
Launching next month with close to 50 law firms already on board, the updated Mansfield Rule will extend to LGTBQ+ attorneys and commit firms to do more to enhance diversity in leadership.
June 21, 2018
A gender bias lawsuit against Jones Day puts its compensation model under scrutiny, but the black box approach has its defenders.
June 19, 2018
After being first out of the gate on associate raises, Milbank has now adopted Cravath's new standard
June 19, 2018
After being first out of the gate on associate raises, Milbank has now adopted Cravath's new standard.
June 18, 2018
Jason Zakia is moving from Miami to Chicago to launch the new office.
June 18, 2018
The international firm has high hopes for the Windy City, where it plans to grow to at least 100 lawyers "with all due speed."
June 15, 2018
Unsupportable, unavoidable, or both? Check out the latest news and analysis on the associate pay raises spreading across top law firms.
June 14, 2018
Half a dozen US law firms succumb to pressure to raise associate salaries to new heights
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