Contract Attorneys
112 ABA Journal Contract Attorneys articles.
The Florida Injury Law Firm based in Orlando, Florida, was awarded $2.3 million last week in a lawsuit against a former associate accused of violating an employment contract by stealing the firm’s best clients.
Mar 1, 2023 2:20 PM CST
A Hogan Lovells lawyer has said she was fired and blackballed by other law firms after she referred to abortion rates in the Black community during a discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning
Roe v. Wade and
the right to abortion.
Dec 1, 2022 11:44 AM CST
The name partners of the law firm Tully Rinckey have been accused of ethics violations for allegedly adding anti-competitive terms to attorney employment agreements and impeding clients’ ability to follow departing lawyers.
Jun 7, 2022 3:40 PM CDT
Diversity gains among larger law firms this year were the largest since 2001, according to the American Lawyer’s 2022 Diversity Scorecard.
Jun 1, 2022 4:01 PM CDT
In 2020, a contract attorney posted to LinkedIn once per day, every day, for a month. A selection of those posts found its way into a self-published book, Practical Tips on How To Contract.
Apr 6, 2022 11:22 AM CDT
Evisort co-founder Jake Sussman says when the company began developing its contract management and analysis platform, its goal was to use artificial intelligence as a last resort.
Jan 19, 2022 8:37 AM CST
Lawyers who received litigation funding from Pravati Capital are sometimes tripped up by contract provisions that leave them owing more than double the amount that they borrowed.
Nov 18, 2021 11:00 AM CST
Contract lawyers forced to use facial recognition monitoring while they work at home are frustrated with the intrusive and error-prone surveillance that forces them to log back in when they are perceived to be unfocused.
Nov 15, 2021 9:50 AM CST
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Alex Hamilton, the CEO of Radiant Law, a U.K.-based law firm focused on contracts, and the author of
Sign Here: The Enterprise Guide to Closing Contracts Quickly.
Oct 22, 2021 1:41 PM CDT
When two women discussed starting their own law firm two years ago, the experienced in-house lawyers agreed that they should take a subscription-pricing approach with clients.
Apr 14, 2021 9:03 AM CDT
The law firm that was first to announce a second round of special bonuses has raised its payouts to match what has become the market rate.
Mar 29, 2021 9:46 AM CDT
Selective opportunities for law students, including law review membership, judicial clerkships and large law firm association positions, are largely based on first-year grades. And the tradition leaves out many "exceptional students," according to a March 22 working paper that studied classes between 1979 and 2019 at an unnamed top 20 law school.
Mar 24, 2021 11:07 AM CDT
Dec 1, 2020 1:30 AM CST
This type of software is grounded in machine learning and natural language processing, and it assists lawyers in analyzing contracts for their clients more effectively and efficiently, saving tons of time and money, writes lawyer and author Nicole Black.
Sep 29, 2020 9:00 AM CDT
Updated: Layoffs are hitting workers at Baker McKenzie, Davis Wright Tremaine and Venable.
Sep 2, 2020 9:33 AM CDT
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