Law firms are competing for the best summer associates and trying to integrate them into the culture with food—lots of food—as well as social outings and law-firm swag.
Beginning BigLaw associates may be happy about recent raises that hiked their pay to $180,000, but some lawyers for the companies that hire their law firms don’t share their…
A strategic alliance announced Wednesday by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and the United Kingdom-based Bond Dickinson is intended to help each of the well-known firms expand its…
K&L Gates has launched a new program for income partners that aims to increase their opportunities for advancement and foster a “firm ownership ethic.”
A Harvard law grad alleges she lost her job at Ropes & Gray because she wasn’t granted all her requested disability accommodations the first and second time she took the…
A federal judge on Wednesday allowed wealthy investor Morris Zukerman to waive any potential conflicts posed by his white-collar defense lawyers’ required appearance before a federal grand jury to testify…
Updated: Pointing the way to higher pay for other BigLaw associates in major cities, Cravath Swaine & Moore announced Monday that the New York law firm is increasing its starting…
The most profitable law firms have pulled far ahead of second-hundred firms in their hourly billing rates, according to a study of rate increases between 2014 and 2015.
For the past 30 years, elite law firms have expressed a strong commitment to diversity, yet a large percentage of women lawyers continue to leave law firms and few are…
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