By Marcia Coyle | April 3, 2017
In 2016, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr pro bono lawyers upended the death sentencing scheme in Florida and other states, opened the door to potentially thousands of dollars in federal contracts for veteran-owned small businesses, and reined in how certain offenses count toward deportation and enhanced sentences. And that was just in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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By Jenna Greene | April 3, 2017
There weren't many run-of-the-mill lateral litigator moves in March, the kind where a mid-level partner at Big Firm A moves to Big Firm B, spouting something about platforms and synergy. Instead, the most notable March moves were propelled by something extra.
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By Brian Baxter | April 2, 2017
San Francisco-based Altshuler Berzon and Sidley Austin were among a dozen outside law firms to have received payments in 2016 from the Major League Baseball Players Association. The labor union, one of the most powerful in professional sports, disclosed the fees in an annual Labor Department filing.
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By Roy Strom | April 1, 2017
Before Stewart Dolin's suicide in 2010, he told his therapist he felt inadequate as a Reed Smith practice leader. It's a feeling therapists say that lawyers, as a group, often struggle with, especially following mergers. But Big Law has a zip-lipped culture when it comes to mental health concerns.
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By Meredith Hobbs | March 15, 2017
Fewer associates made partner this year at big firms in the city. Most who did were men.
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By Steve Kovalan, Senior Analyst | January 18, 2017
How can law firms adequately develop a value proposition that meets, or better yet, exceeds the expectations of their law department clients? Step one. Ask them.
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By Zack Needles, Managing Editor | December 13, 2016
Welcome to the 23rd edition of PaLaw: Annual Report on the Legal Profession. As is the case every year, our aim with this magazine is to thoroughly encapsulate the past year in the Pennsylvania legal community.
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By Scott Flaherty | December 12, 2016
Following a year marked by a contentious presidential election and likely changes to come in U.S. policy prescriptions, law firm leaders in Florida are largely optimistic about their firms going into 2017 and expect to see growth in Miami, according to a recent survey of firm leaders and administrators in the region.
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By Dirk Olin, ALM Director of Intelligence | November 16, 2016
Veteran class action litigator Garry Mathiason recently traded his firm management role for a new challenge, co-chairing the firm's emergent Robotics, AI, and Automation practice group. Mathiason sat down with ALM Director of Intelligence Dirk Olin to discuss the new group as well as the brave new world of the law machine.
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By Don Hayden | December 28, 2017
It is no longer a question of whether third-party funding will be used in international arbitration, but how we will tailor our processes to address the issues that come into play when third- party funders more frequently finance “bet the company” cross-border disputes and major investor-state claims.
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