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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
January 17, 2019
The firm is expanding its real estate and land use group from local firm Foster Pepper, which has seen several key departures.
January 15, 2019
A new survey by Zeughauser Group found nearly a third of Boston law firm leaders open to combining with another firm in the next three to five years.
January 15, 2019
John Merow led the Wall Street firm during a period of international expansion in the 1980s and 1990s
January 14, 2019
John Merow led the Wall Street firm during a period of international expansion in the 1980s and 1990s.
January 14, 2019
Stuart Barr and Cameron Cosby are joining Fried Frank in Washington, D.C., where Barr will lead the firm's REIT practice.
January 10, 2019
As more and more firms revisit their parental leave benefits, the program lets lawyers "ramp down" and "ramp up" their billable hours before and after a child's arrival, without sacrificing pay.
January 09, 2019
Walied Soliman will lead the firm’s global supervisory board for a one-year term effective Jan. 1.
January 09, 2019
The growing Missouri-based firm announced the new locations after beating its own goal of $100 million in revenues last year, according to chairman Patrick Whalen.
January 09, 2019
The group includes 13 partners, representing the latest in a series of departures from LeClairRyan and a big gain for Atlanta-based Freeman Mathis.
January 09, 2019
The group includes 13 partners, representing the latest in a series of departures from LeClairRyan and a big gain for Atlanta-based Freeman Mathis.
January 08, 2019
Claudius Modesti, former enforcement chief at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, is joining the firm on the heels of two additions from the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week.
January 08, 2019
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel life sciences chair Brain Slater and partner Greg Sephton are the latest partners to join the fledgling litigation firm's fast-growing New York office.
January 08, 2019
First founded as Pierce Sergenian in early 2017 by former K&L Gates and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner John Pierce, the young litigation shop has rapidly expanded across the country and undergone several name changes in the process.
January 07, 2019
D.C. and San Francisco-based Travis LeBlanc is Cooley's latest partner addition as the firm continues to build up its data security and East Coast litigation capabilities.
January 03, 2019
“We are building an army of killers on a highly collaborative platform," said founder John Pierce, promising his young firm would "take over Boston in short order."
January 02, 2019
The new office, focused on a cybersecurity and data practice, is the latest of several launched by Am Law firms in the past year.
December 28, 2018
Firms are pulling out all the stops as we head into 2019, but associate retention remains an issue.
December 27, 2018
Launched earlier this month in Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's New York office, ClearyLoop allows its associates to use an app to request informal feedback sessions with its senior lawyers.
December 27, 2018
ClearyLoop app allows associates to request informal feedback from senior lawyers
New York Law Journal |Quick Takes
December 26, 2018
Here are some of the prominent faces in the legal industry whose impact helped shape the profession.
December 21, 2018
Here are some of the prominent faces in the legal industry whose impact helped shape the profession.
The Legal Intelligencer |Quick Takes
December 21, 2018
Here are some of the prominent faces in the legal industry whose impact helped shape the profession.
December 21, 2018
In the latest effort to chip away at Big Law's work-life imbalance, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe will pay up to $15,000 for its attorneys to take a weeklong vacation.
December 18, 2018
Washington, D.C.-based Arent Fox is joining forces with 55-lawyer Posternak Blankstein & Lund, and becoming the latest Am Law 200 firm to build a Boston beachhead.
December 14, 2018
Am Law 200 leadership changes in 2018 included some big surprises.
December 13, 2018
Am Law 200 leadership changes in 2018 included some big surprises.
December 13, 2018
Am Law 200 leadership changes in 2018 included some big surprises.
December 12, 2018
Palo Alto partners Tiffany Lee and Matthew Berger are leaving Paul Hastings to launch New York-based Willkie Farr & Gallagher's first West Coast office.
December 10, 2018
The firm was hired to conduct the probe in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.
December 10, 2018
Joan McPhee, a partner in New York, joined Ropes & Gray in 1990 after serving as an assistant U.S. attorney and deputy chief of the Appeals Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She led the investigation with James Dowden.
December 03, 2018
The self-proclaimed "fastest-growing law firm" in Big Law has expanded once again.
December 03, 2018
Facing pressure from clients, associates and a competitive market, law firms in Canada are being forced to catch up to their American brethren.
November 29, 2018
Parental leave policy updates have made their way to Wall Street.
November 28, 2018
The firm will now provide at least 12 weeks of paid parental leave for its attorneys and business staff, regardless of caregiver designation.
November 27, 2018
Weil, Gotshal & Manges is taking the lead on a pair of new bankruptcies in New York and Delaware that count more than dozen law firm creditors.
November 27, 2018
As more firms bow to pressure to abandon mandatory arbitration provisions, some observers warn of unintended consequences for young lawyers.
November 27, 2018
A. Michael Weber, a labor and employment partner at Littler Mendelson in New York. said Kirkland may have concluded that negative publicity arising out of the arbitration provision outweighed the benefits of providing confidentiality.
November 21, 2018
The latest round of bonuses means senior associates at top-paying firms can now expect to make $465,000 or more—higher than the average profits per equity partner at plenty of Big Law firms.
November 21, 2018
The latest round of bonuses means senior associates at top-paying firms can now expect to make $465,000 or more—higher than the average profits per equity partner at a dozen Am Law 200 firms, including Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott and Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin.
November 21, 2018
The latest round of bonuses means senior associates at top-paying firms can now expect to make $465,000 or more, beating the average profit per equity partner at a number of Big Law firms.
November 19, 2018
“We’ve really focused on coaching, not grading,” said Nicole Mesard, chair of Debevoise & Plimpton’s hiring committee, who helped develop the new program.
November 19, 2018
Can a new assessment tool help O'Melveny & Myers expand its associate talent pool and weed out hiring biases?
November 16, 2018
Third-years and up can start working one day a week from home under the new policy, which the firm said recognizes that millennial expectations are "different."
November 16, 2018
Among firms adopting programs to combat stress, depression and substance abuse, several are acting in the wake of suicides and other mental heath crises in their own ranks.
November 15, 2018
Among firms adopting programs to combat stress, depression and substance abuse, several are acting in the wake of suicides and other mental heath crises in their own ranks.
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
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 17, 2018
Firm restates growth targets after London hiring spree and record partnership round
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
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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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.
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