By Justin Henry | August 7, 2023
Midsize firms are creating administrative roles to help manage their growth as firm leaders orient partners toward client service instead of operational management.
By Justin Henry | July 31, 2023
Although hiring activity for corporate lawyers is low across the industry, a Major Lindsey & Africa recruiter said "boutique and Am Law Second Hundred" firms have an opportunity to recruit talent that was unavailable to them in recent years' hiring cycles.
By Justin Henry | July 25, 2023
Many law firms have been faster to embrace artificial intelligence for marketing and business development than for the practice of law, wary of AI's implications for client confidentiality, lawyer ethics and legal service pricing.
By Justin Henry | Jessie Yount | July 19, 2023
Firm leaders, wary of mandating office attendance, are counting on in-person collaboration opportunities to draw young lawyers back into the office. "We are emphasizing that for associates to be here, our [partners] need to set an example," one law firm leader said. "If our members' attendance is sporadic, that doesn't send the right message either."
By Justin Henry | July 11, 2023
Without the hiring clout of higher-profile and higher-paying Big Law firms, law firms outside the Am Law 200 worry requiring regular office attendance after a protracted period of remote work will disadvantage them in the hiring and retention of legal talent.
By Dan Roe | June 27, 2023
The biggest midsize firms and the smallest Am Law Second Hundred firms outperformed their respective peers in 2022.
By Justin Henry | June 21, 2023
Recently released data by The American Lawyer, which includes 20 law firms with less than 200 lawyers, not only highlights a trend that smaller firms are experiencing less financial volatility than their big law counterparts but that their deployment of legal talent has yielded greater income on a per-lawyer basis.
By Dan Roe | June 13, 2023
The causes of burnout, depression and addiction in midsize firms are similar to those in Big Law, the American Lawyer's survey of mental health in the legal profession found.
By Justin Henry | June 1, 2023
About 70 midsize firms qualified for Diversity Lab's midsize Mansfield Certification, which required 30% of candidates considered for leadership roles or equity partner promotions to be from underrepresented groups.
By Dan Roe | May 16, 2023
As last year's overhiring puts an increasing number of Big Law associates on the market, midsize firms are less concerned with who's been laid off than a lawyer's stated reasons for leaving.
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