A dark money group with ties to Democratic Party heavyweights will spend millions this year to expose and try to disbar more than 100 lawyers who worked on Donald Trump’s post-election lawsuits, people involved with the effort tell Axios. Why it matters: The 65 Project plans to begin filing complaints […]
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Gloria Tejada thought she could trust state Rep. Carlos Tobon. So when the lawmaker approached her in 2020 about an unusual business deal, Tejada agreed to the idea, partly out of gratitude for how Tobon’s family had helped her husband when he immigrated to the United […]
The American Medical Association said Monday it tapped Andra Heller, International Business Machines Corp.’s top lawyer for Watson Health, as its senior vice president and general counsel. She replaces former legal chief Brian Vandenberg, who retired March 1 after spending five years with the largest professional association and lobbying group […]
In-house counsel faced with a data breach encounters a difficult balancing act. On the one hand, it is critical to determine the cause of the breach and generate a plan to bolster security systems to reduce the likelihood of similar occurrences in the future. On the other hand, these same […]
In particular, the Sandoz court held that, even wholly within a corporate client, nonlawyer personnel cannot disseminate corporate counsel’s legal advice without losing the privilege; and the court held that the common interest privilege attaches only to communications that include lawyers representing all of the clients participating in the common […]
Profits growth of more than 5% would be a great year for any big law firm. But a look at the early reports of Am Law 200 financials shows many law firms with eye-popping profit per partner hikes of more than 20%, including at Sidley Austin, Dechert, McDermott Will & […]
The Coca-Cola Co. has officially walked away from race-based staffing requirements for law firms doing work for the company, following blowback from some investors and the removal of the executive who developed the plan. The proposed requirements “have not been and are not a policy” at Coca-Cola, general counsel Monica […]
U.S. News & World Report sent the embargoed version of its 2023 “Best Grad Schools” list to law schools a few weeks ahead of its official release and one admissions expert said there appears to be significant changes to the methodology that could result in increased “volatility in the rankings.” Mike Spivey, of Spivey Consulting, wrote […]
With a tight hiring market in Texas, firms launching new offices in the Lone Star state are increasingly not only hiring locally but staffing with lawyers transferring from other offices, some of them coming home to Texas. The strategy is not new—it’s been used over the years to help anchor […]
After more than a year and a half of working remotely, law firms are pulling all sorts of levers to encourage their attorneys and staff to come into the office regularly: free food, a more relaxed dress code and fun charity competitions. In the time since the pandemic began, the […]
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At least 10 U.S. law firms have matched raises announced by Milbank last week Many firms are still absorbing widespread pay raises from last year (Reuters) – A new round of pay increases at large U.S. law firms may be harder to swallow than other recent hikes, with some in […]
General Electric Co. has retained a pair of prominent law firms, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, as it prepares to split itself into three separate businesses. Scott Barshay, chair of the corporate department at Paul Weiss, and deputy corporate chair Steven Williams are working […]
The City of Kingston is looking for another lawyer. It is seeking “a qualified legal consultant to provide outside counsel on the City’s current in rem foreclosure process.” The service will help the city’s office of housing initiatives, the building and safety division, and the corporation counsel to devise legal […]
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(Reuters) – January may be cold and gray, but as a longtime legal business reporter/geek, I look forward to it every year. That’s because it’s when we start finding out how law firms fared financially the year before. FisherBroyles gave me an exclusive peek at its 2021 numbers, and I […]
A new legal group linked to Democratic Party insiders that is aimed at disbarring the lawyers who pushed Donald Trump’s election fraud lies in the courts has launched, Axios first reported Monday, a project that’s targeting the lesser-known lawyers that did Trump’s bidding and punching back at recent Republican efforts […]
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(Reuters) – When now-defunct Coudert Brothers in early 1988 became the first U.S. law firm to open an office in Moscow, it was big news —feel-good evidence of glasnost in action as the Cold War sputtered out. Coudert’s clients “all have reacted enthusiastically to the prospect of having Western legal […]
Law firms are looking to push aggressive rate increases in 2022, taking advantage of a climate in which surging demand for corporate work, in particular, has stretched them thin. Few firms have been shy about pushing rates upward in both 2020 and 2021. But industry observers believe there’s still room for more […]
In a recent interview, California Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins said it was “disappointing and hard to hear that there are (legislative staffers) who still have concerns” about the harassment reporting process in the Legislature. “I would just encourage staff to reach out,” she said. “We want to make sure […]
Litigation or transaction? In most law schools, these are the two career options that you hear about from the first day of orientation. No ifs, ands, or buts, you have just two possible career paths. However, more recent law school grads are discovering a third option — the compliance attorney. […]
As technology transforms our world, the legal field is being stirred up and rearranged as never before. But rather than seeing doom and gloom, tech-savvy law graduates view the phenomenon through a lens of opportunity. It may take them out of the daily grind of practicing traditional law and into […]