Large Firm
2594 ABA Journal Large Firm articles.
Demand for legal services is down slightly, while lawyer head count is increasing—a combination that is resulting in a decline in average billable hours, according to a survey of BigLaw firms by Wells Fargo’s Legal Specialty Group.
May 4, 2023 12:02 PM CDT
Twitter critics were quick to scold a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison after he called a brief by U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar “a hot mess” in a U.S. Supreme Court filing.
May 4, 2023 10:02 AM CDT
More than 110 lawyers are leaving Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith to join a new law firm founded by two of its longtime lawyers.
May 2, 2023 3:03 PM CDT
Ninety-eight of the nation’s top 100 law firms had 44 fewer partners last year than in 2021, continuing a long-term trend of firms “pulling up the ladder,” according to an analysis by Bloomberg Law.
Apr 27, 2023 12:37 PM CDT
Out of 17 top law firms that had free blue check marks from Twitter, only three have apparently paid to keep them, according to a review by Reuters.
Apr 26, 2023 11:22 AM CDT
Greenberg Traurig CEO Brian Duffy contracted to buy a property partly owned by Justice Neil Gorsuch nine days after the former appeals judge's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Apr 25, 2023 2:47 PM CDT
Can teams operate in a gritty and growth mindset-oriented way, and if so, does that make them more successful?
Apr 24, 2023 4:07 PM CDT
Fifty law firms had gross revenue of $1 billion or more in 2022,
including 18 firms with more than $2 billion in gross revenue, according to the latest rankings published by Law.com.
Apr 20, 2023 1:25 PM CDT
A Williams & Connolly partner has agreed to pay more than $7.2 million to settle the federal government’s civil suit for unpaid federal income taxes.
Lawyer Robert Shaughnessy and…
Apr 18, 2023 10:45 AM CDT
A special master has ordered a Baker & Hostetler partner to sit for a second deposition after finding that he was “an extraordinarily difficult and evasive witness” during the first round of questioning.
Apr 17, 2023 3:07 PM CDT
Shearman & Sterling is laying off additional employees after an earlier round of cuts in February.
Apr 13, 2023 10:59 AM CDT
Cooley has pushed back its start date for new associates from November 2023 to January 2024, according to reports by Bloomberg Law and Law.com that rely on anonymous sources.
Apr 12, 2023 9:30 AM CDT
Proskauer Rose has said it is investigating an incident in which its data was exposed on a cloud-based platform.
Apr 10, 2023 11:32 AM CDT
A Paul Hastings associate’s best-practices advice to junior colleagues in an internal presentation wasn’t that far off the mark, legal observers said. But its tone was lacking.
Apr 6, 2023 9:30 AM CDT
A spokesperson for Kirkland & Ellis says associate cuts last week were not layoffs.
Apr 4, 2023 11:51 AM CDT
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