By C. Ryan Barber | December 21, 2017
Eric Blankenstein had been an associate at the Washington firm for more than eight years before joining the U.S. Trade Representative office in September.
By Meghan Tribe | Hank Grezlak | December 20, 2017
As the #MeToo movement spreads from the entertainment sector to politics and the courts, will big law firms face their own reckoning?
By Meghan Tribe | December 15, 2017
The number of women and minorities within partnerships in Big Law has increased slightly, but a report by the National Association for Law Placement found that their numbers in the associate ranks has slipped below pre-recession figures.
By Tony Mauro | November 29, 2017
With the addition of five former U.S. Supreme Court clerks from last term's "class,” Jones Day has now hired 36 ex-SCOTUS clerks in the last five years. Think that's over-saturation? Beth Heifetz, who chairs the firm's appellate practice, says they'd be happy to hire more.
By Meghan Tribe | September 26, 2017
Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico with a force unseen locally since 1928. The Category 4 storm made landfall with winds around 155 miles per hour, leaving the island without power and many residents scrambling for access to cash, gasoline or water. Among those trying to get back to work are lawyers at large law firms in San Juan.
By Chris Johnson | September 21, 2017
The number of first-year associate jobs at law firms across the U.S. and Canada is set to rise slightly over the next 12 months, a new survey has found.
By Miriam Rozen | September 19, 2017
DHL and other companies are experimenting more often with hiring their own freshly-minted law school graduates, rather than paying a premium for young lawyers at outside firms.
By Katelyn Polantz | September 14, 2017
Sean Marotta, a senior appellate associate at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., had coffee with 15 summer associates this year who found him over Twitter. The National Law Journal caught up with Marotta to review some of what he learned from them.
By Mike Scarcella | September 13, 2017
Stephen Vaden, a former Jones Day associate in Washington who was on the Trump administration's landing team at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is now in line to lead the agency's legal team. Vaden, a Yale Law School graduate, has regularly spoken on administrative law and regulatory issues, and he formerly was an associate for several years at Squire Patton Boggs.
By Rebecca Cohen | August 29, 2017
Second- through sixth-year associates at bonus-happy Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan will receive supplemental rewards based on the firm's performance, chairman John Quinn announced in a memo Tuesday. But there's a catch.
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