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The FTC's New Noncompete Rule Does Not Solve the Real Challenge Ediscovery Business Development Professionals Have When Changing Employers

The abolition of noncompetes is empowering for job-seekers, but it does not eliminate the real challenge of replicating historical sales success during the kickoff of new sales employment.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

How to Manage Outside Counsel Spend—With the Help of Legal Technology

Here are three strategies legal teams can adopt to operate much more independently and optimally, and become far less reliant on outside counsel.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Associate Talent Market Cools, as Local Firms Refine Retention Strategies

"They could be happier financially or happier culturally, but there are less disgruntled attorneys at their current firms looking to get out," said Alevistar Legal Search founder Brian Levinson.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Petitioners Seek to Remove 'Non-Lawyer' From ABA Vocabulary. Lively Discussion Ensues

Olga Mack, a fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and Damien Riehl, vice president and solutions champion at legal tech platform vLex, hope to generate a conversation that will make lawyers think twice about how they refer to their colleagues.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Innovation in Hiring, Staffing & Recruitment Winner, Provider: Baretz+Brunelle

"Legal techs and ALSPs, unlike law firms, aren't encumbered by precedent. They have no sacred cows. That's a major reason they are unleashing so much new activity and will likely continue to do so," said Howard Rosenberg, Partner at Baretz+Brunelle.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Major Lindsey & Africa 'Blackballed' Associate Who Sued Troutman, Suit Claims

Gita Sankano claims that after she sued the Am Law 100 firm, Major Lindsey told its recruiters to refrain from working with her even as she was being considered as a candidate by another law firm.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Child Labor Probe Hammers Tennessee Factory, Highlighting Risks to Employers From Feds' Stepped-Up Enforcement

The Department of Labor fined Morristown, Tennessee-based Tuff Torq $296,951 and secured a court order requiring it to disgorge $1.5 million—a month of profits—after a January inspection found 10 illegally employed children as young as 14 subjected to "oppressive" conditions.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Lateral Hire Success: How to Measure It

There may not be a perfect way to categorize success, but there are well-known indicia law firms and lateral partners use every day to measure it, writes Ronald E. Wood.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Three Big Law Firms Unite to Pitch Law Students on Practicing in Phila.

Ballard Spahr, Blank Rome and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath are hosting a webinar next week to make the case that Philadelphia is an "incredible place to practice law." They're motivated in part by a shift away from on-campus recruiting.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Goodwin, Orrick, Steptoe, Willkie Add DC Partners Amid Uptick in Lateral Moves

Goodwin brought on Lori Gordon, who was co-chair of their post-grant practice at Perkins Coie. She was one of several Am Law 200 partners to join new firms in D.C.
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