The first emails arrived on Friday as Hungarian mergers and acquisitions lawyer Oliver Koppany settled into a village outside Budapest for a firm retreat. Barely 24 hours into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, KNP Law clients in Kyiv and Lviv reached out to their attorneys for a different kind of counsel: Can you book me a plane […]
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Iris Jones, chief marketing and client development officer at Akerman, spent the first few years of her career as the Austin city attorney and doing civil trial work at a small firm in Austin. Since then, Jones, who joined Akerman last May, has spent more than two decades working in client […]
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 […]
Clayton, MO: Law Offices of Kevin J Roach, LLC offers exclusive legal services to clients injured due to somebody’s negligence and auto accidents. The personal injury attorney represents car accident victims, assisting them in making insurance claims and building a solid case to hold the negligent motorist liable for the […]
SQE prep provider looks to equip students with human and business know-how BARBRI is looking to equip its wannabe solicitors with the key human and business skills valued by law firms through a new partnership with the O Shaped Lawyer. The project, founded in 2019 by former Network Rail GC […]
Crystal Espanol was a risk-averse lawyer until she unexpectedly lost her job. She realized she couldn’t hinge her financial security on a single job, no matter how safe it seemed. Choosing a riskier career as a life coach with a side hustle in real estate has secured her finances and […]
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 […]
Commit to rethinking law firm norms: Adding new approaches into a law firm isn’t easy—including modifying its hiring processes. But law firms must be willing to loosen their grip on only picking candidates from a limited pool of schools and embrace hiring analytics experts and letting data override some gut […]
The night before Julie Rikelman was scheduled to argue before the Supreme Court for the first time, she hardly slept at all. But it wasn’t nerves that kept her up. It was a persistent fire alarm at the Washington, D.C. hotel where she was staying. It went off again and […]
Anyone who has been into London this week will know that the city is getting busy again. That’s not surprising; a poll of some of London’s most senior partners found they are overwhelmingly in favour of a return to the office. For many of them what’s at stake is nothing […]
A legacy left by former mayor Bill de Blasio will be put to the test if New York State’s eviction moratorium law expires on Jan. 15 — with more extensions unlikely. Building on an initiative pushed for by the City Council, the de Blasio administration ensured that every needy tenant […]
The Kirkland Effect In October, Kirkland & Ellis announced that a record 151 of its lawyers were to be promoted to partner. More young lawyers having a say in how the firm is run, a chance to share in the profits, forging their own bespoke relationships with major clients—well, that’s […]
Firms are still trying to calm a “perfect storm” of stressors, unveiling a variety of creative perks and wellness programs to fight the mental fog brought about by the pandemic. But the legal industry conversation on mental health and wellness, which began gaining traction even before COVID-19 swept the globe, may […]
Lyft Inc. has named a new legal chief as the ride-sharing company and competitor Uber Technologies Inc. continue to face litigation over its classification of drivers. Lindsay Llewellyn, a vice president and associate general counsel at the company, was promoted as of Nov. 1 to general counsel. Lyft disclosed in […]