Ukrainian lawyers, mostly women, are reaching out to legal recruiters in the U.K. seeking work—a very early-days phenomenon that recruiters expect to accelerate over the next few weeks. Several international and domestic law firms, as well as professional service firms, have already committed to taking Ukrainian lawyers on, recruiters say, and they […]
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The Major League Baseball Players Association paid $3.5 million in legal fees last year, with Winston & Strawn taking the largest share, as the union sought to resolve a labor dispute threatening the 2022 baseball season. Winston & Strawn, a longtime legal adviser to baseball players and their brethren in […]
The hiring emails started arriving in Allison Skager’s inbox the first week of her first job after graduating law school. Now, more than a year since she started as an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Los Angeles office, the inbox deluge still shapes her morning routine. When Skager logs on […]
Tesla Inc. named its third new legal chief in two years, as the company promoted David Searle to be acting head of legal and corporate secretary. Searle takes the role after being hired a little over a year ago as Tesla’s head of compliance. Tesla welcomed him aboard from Walmart […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Given the seriousness of the controversies surrounding John Eastman, it’s tempting to think the Republican lawyer would quietly retreat to the sidelines. That’s clearly not happening. As recently as a month ago, Eastman was in Wisconsin, meeting with the Republican Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, reportedly urging the legislator to […]
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 […]
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 […]
When Corrine, a Black lawyer, saw her name on a client pitch led by one of the partners at the major U.K. law firm where she was an associate, she was confused. “It wasn’t even my area of work,” she said. She soon realised that the pitching team “did not […]
Not only are Russian oligarchs having trouble hanging onto their mansions and yachts — they’re struggling to keep their fancy New York lawyers. Over the past few days, reps for Igor Shuvalov have been frantically calling to find high-powered American attorneys who will take on the 55-year-old former Kremlin operative, […]
One of the strongest ways to stand out from the competition is to establish yourself as a thought leader in your practice area by creating content that speaks to the issues and challenges your clients are facing. Writing, recording, or presenting information that can help your clients and potential clients, […]
The Rev. John Udo-Okon, a Pentecostal minister in the Bronx, has a lot of congregants who are sued by debt collectors and don’t know what to do. Like most of the millions of Americans sued over consumer debt each year, Pastor Udo-Okon’s congregants typically cannot retain a lawyer. When they […]
Facing eviction, debt collection or a custody dispute, millions of Californians who would benefit from the help of a lawyer are often unable to afford one. Many people who earn too much to qualify for free legal services but not enough to pay lawyer fees are left to fend for […]
I am often asked by clients which invitations they should accept or extend on LinkedIn. Let’s look at this from a few different angles to find out what the right approach is for you. Can You Connect The Dots? The most direct answer I offer you is: If you can […]
The market size for online legal services was valued at 8.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. Research by the Statista Research Department suggests that this figure will only continue to grow in the years ahead. Each one of us, at some point, will have made a Google search for a […]
Stacey E. Burke: 20-year lawyer, legal marketing expert and consulting business owner. getty While many lawyers are good at business development, that skill set is very different from being a successful marketer. Marketing is its own discipline, and even though lawyers are educated and often intelligent, most do not possess a marketing […]
A divisive lawyer who helped raise money for Kyle Rittenhouse‘s legal defense wants $2 million of it back after the trial for the Illinois teen, accused of killing two people and wounding another during protests in Kenosha last year. No, it’s not John Pierce — though he wants some it of it […]