Associates
2021 ABA Journal Associates articles.
White male attorneys continue to constitute the highest percentages of equity partners, non-equity partners and associates at law firms, according to an ABA report released Monday.
May 16, 2022 2:35 PM CDT
Prosecutors and two lawyers accused in a Molotov cocktail attack on an unoccupied police car have reached a plea deal that would spare the defendants some prison time.
May 12, 2022 3:32 PM CDT
Law firm profitability decreased in the first quarter of the year, as direct expenses increased 13.1% and overhead increased 9.9% from the same period last year, according to the Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index.
May 11, 2022 8:39 AM CDT
A new survey of lawyers and staff members hailing mostly from BigLaw has found that anxiety, depression and isolation remain at concerning levels, despite a slight decrease in the percentages since the survey last year.
May 10, 2022 12:55 PM CDT
Associate hiring and attrition spiked last year, leading to “boomerang” hiring and a greater percentage of associates leaving within one year, according to a survey of law firms
released last week by the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education.
May 2, 2022 9:29 AM CDT
A group of 27 private equity lawyers is leaving Honigman to join DLA Piper in Chicago.
Apr 22, 2022 9:28 AM CDT
Compensation may be the proximate cause that entices associates to leave their law firms, but “the root cause may run deeper,” according to a report released Thursday.
Apr 21, 2022 2:51 PM CDT
There is some good news to celebrate, as women and people of color continue to progress in the legal field, according to Yale Law Women’s Top Firms Report for 2022.
Apr 21, 2022 9:09 AM CDT
Law firms are increasingly dangling the prospect of partnership status to lure needed associates from other law firms.
Apr 12, 2022 3:02 PM CDT
Forty-three restructuring lawyers, including 18 partners, are leaving Stroock & Stroock & Lavan to join Paul Hastings in what is one of the largest lateral group moves of the 21st century.
Apr 1, 2022 9:59 AM CDT
Lateral hiring at law firms was up nearly 111% in 2021 following a 30% decline in 2020, according to the National Association for Law Placement.
Mar 30, 2022 10:31 AM CDT
The hot market for associates is cooling slightly, as associates appear more reluctant to make lateral moves and law firms are becoming more cautious in hiring, recruiters told Law.com.
Mar 15, 2022 2:52 PM CDT
A Buffalo, New York, law firm hired a phony lawyer who represented at least nine clients, according to a press release announcing charges against the alleged fraudster.
Mar 10, 2022 9:38 AM CST
Keller Lenkner associate Daniel Strunk is back on the job in Washington, D.C., after participating as a Survivor contestant in season 42, which premiered March 9. He has been a Survivor fan since he was 7 or 8 years old.
Mar 10, 2022 8:38 AM CST
The FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have joined the search for an Indianapolis associate at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani who has been missing since late February.
Mar 9, 2022 11:37 AM CST
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