192 ABA Journal Legal Rebels Profiles articles.
Forecasting where technology can take litigation and understanding the steps needed to get there are great strengths of Steven Berrent’s, say those who know the managing director of WilmerHale’s Discovery…
Sep 28, 2011 1:54 PM CDT
A prime-cut filet might be the centerpiece of a New York or Chicago meal between law firm partners and business executives, while in Los Angeles they might dine on halibut…
Sep 26, 2011 1:49 PM CDT
When you get paid by the minute, becoming more efficient might seem like a bad idea.
Lisa J. Damon, a member of Seyfarth Shaw’s executive committee, has moved past that…
Sep 21, 2011 1:50 PM CDT
Paul Sweeney didn’t intend to make any money off a $250 startup incorporation package that Foley Hoag offered on the deal site LevelUp. But the marketing aspect of the email,…
Sep 19, 2011 1:51 PM CDT
When Mel M. Immergut first heard the proposal from his Munich-based colleague Norbert Rieger, the methodical chairman of white-shoe law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy did something unusual.
“I…
Sep 14, 2011 2:00 PM CDT
India, with its booming economy and wealth of young, educated lawyers eager for work, was at the forefront of David Perla’s mind the day he met with his good friend…
Sep 12, 2011 1:37 PM CDT
The interactive sessions of Pepper Hamilton’s summer associate interviews are exactly what they sound like, says hiring committee chairman Michael P. Subak. Done during callbacks, the discussions are not meant…
Sep 7, 2011 1:56 PM CDT
Gumption (and an innate sense of business development) has propelled Goodwin Procter associate Nithya Das into the spotlight among clients and colleagues and within the venture capital community.
Das melds…
Sep 6, 2011 1:52 PM CDT
BigLaw and innovation? This year’s crop of Legal Rebels demonstrates that those are not necessarily contradictory terms.
Certainly the major-firm environment has its soothing perks in salary, specialization and star…
Sep 1, 2011 10:19 AM CDT
After a typical training session for new recruits, corporate paralegal manager Paula Nascimento braces herself for the barrage of phone calls, emails and pop-in visits that always follow. But on…
Aug 31, 2011 2:11 PM CDT
Twelve years ago, a two-page memo drafted at a breakfast meeting at Chicago’s Ritz-Carlton hotel outlined the visions of two leaders of midsize law firms to build the world’s leading…
Aug 29, 2011 7:49 PM CDT
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