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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | July 4, 2023
CEO Lee Ranson described the results as "pleasing" in the face of "volatility" across the market.
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By Gail J. Cohen | June 21, 2023
Canada's largest city has a lot to offer and firms like Mintz and Cozen O'Connor have already started the trend to move north of the border.
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By Gail J. Cohen | June 14, 2023
As U.S. firms shed lawyers, Canadian firms are holding steady and being more strategic in their hiring, says a new salary report.
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By Christopher Niesche | June 14, 2023
The lower raises come after two years of outsized pay increases.
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By Andrew Maloney | June 12, 2023
Some tweaks law firms are making — such as tying compensation to attendance and training — are meant to address both pre- and post-pandemic concerns.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | June 7, 2023
Feeling the financial pain of investing in the world's most expensive legal market 'can be frustrating' to non-US partners, according to insiders.
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By Dan Roe | June 4, 2023
As law firms wait and see whether the economy picks up in the third quarter, associates at risk of layoffs are feeling the other side of the billable hour's wrath.
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By Jack Womack | May 25, 2023
Using the latest data from Law.com Compass, Law.com International shines a light on the anticipated combination in four charts and three key figures.
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By Jack Womack | Paul Hodkinson | May 22, 2023
The proposed merger would entail both firms agreeing to a compensation model that is different to what they have operated with in the past.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | May 19, 2023
The firm joins a handful of other U.K. firms, such as Ashurst, in extending their parental leave policies.
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By Amanda O'Brien | October 25, 2023
"The differences the data reflects are that mothers are disproportionately not getting important assignments, not being assigned matters with travel, not having sponsors and mentors, and there's a disparity in income particularly as income rises," attorney Roberta Liebenberg, a co-author of the report, said.
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By Alexander Lugo | October 20, 2023
"Associates are our most important asset," said Lawson Huck Gonzalez shareholder Jason Gonzalez, formerly the managing partner of Shutts & Bowen's Tallahassee office. "We're all busy as heck, and we have to have the highest quality associates to help us represent these clients."
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By Allison Dunn | October 20, 2023
U.S. District Senior Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District of Virginia approved the final settlement agreement between a class of drug purchasers and pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co., and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, which also requires the defendants to pay one-third of the settlement fund in attorney fees, or $23 million, as well as $3.9 million in costs—as requested by plaintiffs' counsel.
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By Daniel J. Siegel | October 19, 2023
Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5 governs the types of fees attorneys can charge and outlines the way fee agreements must be tailored. The Pennsylvania Rule is modeled after ABA Model Rule 1.5.
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By Jessie Yount | Maria Dinzeo | October 19, 2023
In-house leaders are increasingly looking to outside counsel to at the very least understand the technology, if not use it to drive their own business efficiencies.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 16, 2023
Lead class counsel who reached a nearly $1.2 billion settlement with DuPont and a $10.5 billion deal with 3M are asking for nearly $1 billion in legal fees.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | October 13, 2023
The law firm's award of $83,509 for attorney fees was preserved, but not its bid to collect $117,689 for expenses.
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By Jason Bergman | October 10, 2023
The purpose of the voluntary payment doctrine is to bar recovery of payments voluntarily made with full knowledge of the facts and in the absence of fraud or mistake of material fact or law. The applicable law is presented in a recent case: 'ECI Financial Corp. v. Resurrection Temple of Our Lord, Inc.'
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By Alex Anteau | Thomas Spigolon | October 9, 2023
Burke and Moore contend they are just two of "a continuing exodus of partners and other attorneys" leaving Drew Eckl & Farnham because of inequitable compensation, according to court papers.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | October 9, 2023
"Appellants' arguments that Texas law, not federal bankruptcy law, controls are incorrect. We find the pre-petition payment doesn't affect the debtor's equitable interest in them at the time the petition was filed," wrote Fifth Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson.
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