Sign in to follow
Search Results

0 results for 'Andrews Kurth'

You can use to get even better search results
June 28, 1999 |

New York Branches Bear Fruit in 98

Texas firms have long recognized that they can't run with big boys like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom unless they beef up their presence in New York. They have been shelling out for people and office space, and it's working. Branch offices in New York turned over a major chunk of their profits during the last fiscal year.
6 minute read
March 28, 2011 |

Commentary: Persuading the Texas Supreme Court to Grant a Petition for Review

Anyone who has done this law thing for awhile surely has been done wrong by a court of appeals — or at least thinks so, writes Kendall Gray. Upon vowing to "take it all the way to the Texas Supreme Court," the odds are that the lawyer failed. According to the 2010 Annual Report for the Texas Judiciary: Fiscal Year 2010, published by the Office of Court Administration, the court granted only about 12 percent of its petitions for review in 2010. Trying to become part of that 12 percent can make one feel like a child tugging on the skirt of a preoccupied parent.
4 minute read
August 04, 2008 |

Paycheck Report 2008

34 minute read
February 13, 2013 |

The Casablanca Theory of Diversity

The rest of the world has boarded the diversity plane. It's time for the llegal profession to join them.
4 minute read
November 10, 2003 |

HMO suits: all smell final victory

Health maintenance organizations and others concerned about the rising costs of medical care hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will reaffirm a 1987 ruling that prevented plan participants from bringing state-law tort claims against their HMOs.
8 minute read
April 29, 2013 |

Who's Hiring Lawyers? Texas Law Firms Growing, Shrinking

Rising client demands and a market offering abundant lateral hiring opportunities helped swell the number of lawyers at two Texas firms by more than 40 percent during 2012. Meanwhile, percentage drops at firms losing lawyers were much lower than they were two years ago in 2010.
10 minute read
December 10, 2012 |

Commentary: Why Lawyers Need (Yet Don't Hire) Coaches

Maybe lawyers don't use coaches because we aren't very coachable. It takes humility to realize the need for improvement and to accept criticism. Humility is not a character trait typically associated with lawyers.
5 minute read
April 30, 2012 |

Commentary: Unequal Household Chores Hinder Women's Workplace Success

Kathleen J. Wu says she spends a lot of time talking about what the legal profession and women lawyers need to do to recruit and retain talented women lawyers. But keeping women in the profession is a three-legged table, and she says she has all but ignored one of those legs: the men who are in relationships with these talented women that firms are trying so hard to keep.
5 minute read
December 12, 2011 |

The Measure of a Plan

After six years tracking diversity at large Dallas firms and no appreciable progress increasing minority representation among lawyers, Gerald "Jerry" Roberts, chairman of the Dallas Diversity Task Force, sees a need for a broader discussion on diversity.
8 minute read

TRENDING STORIES

    More from ALM

    More from ALM

    Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.

    Resources