By Samantha Joseph | April 18, 2018
Less than 24 hours after a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines jet made an emergency landing in Philadelphia Tuesday, attorney Ladd Sanger had already fielded two calls from passengers.
By Rebekah Mintzer | April 16, 2018
Here are some of the quotable (and occasionally controversial) statements those in legal departments have made about their outside partners.
Corporate Counsel | Expert Opinion
By Abbott Martin | April 12, 2018
The news is filled with stories highlighting the promise of new technologies—machine learning, AI, blockchain—for the practice of law. Unfortunately, legal department experience with technology has not continually matched the headline aspiration.
By Ian Lopez | March 30, 2018
Former FTC acting general counsel David Shonka has joined Redgrave LLP. In this Q&A, Shonka discusses the challenges technology poses to law both today and down the road.
By Kimberly Leach Johnson | March 19, 2018
The progress of women in the law, as measured by the ratio of female law-firm partners, is alarming. Only about 20 percent of partners are female, and far fewer are female racial or ethnic minorities. But there are certainly bright spots—women who shook off our industry's sluggish advance to show a path forward.
By Scott Flaherty | March 12, 2018
A little less than a year after his retirement as a Bank of America executive and top in-house counsel, Gary Lynch is back at Davis Polk, where he once spent a dozen years as a partner.
By Miriam Rozen | February 27, 2018
When it comes to hourly billing rates, the largest firms have pulled even farther ahead.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Hugh A. Simons and Gina Passarella | February 25, 2018
Is the bubble set to burst on the buildup of law departments or is now the time to go in-house?
Corporate Counsel | Commentary
By Steven P. Seltzer | February 9, 2018
While the legal industry has undergone dramatic shifts and changes in recent times, it is still not a very common occurrence to find a long-time inside counsel making the leap into the world of outside law firms.
By C. Ryan Barber | February 7, 2018
Christine Wilson, formerly Delta's SVP for legal, regulatory and international, recalls a 1984 high school trip to the Soviet bloc that would shape her world view. And other tidbits from the questionnaires filed by former Paul Weiss partner Joe Simons; congressional lawyer Noah Phillips, chief counsel to Sen. John Cornyn; and Rohit Chopra of the Consumer Federation of America.
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