45 ABA Journal Practice Finance articles.
Dec 20, 2019 12:38 PM CST
Dec 9, 2019 9:48 AM CST
When framing the phrase super law in relation to sustainability with senior in-house execs and lawyers some years ago, people were puzzled by the concept. The notion seems counterintuitive to people steeped in traditional risk management.
Oct 29, 2019 6:30 AM CDT
Oct 8, 2019 10:23 AM CDT
In this episode of the ABA Journal’s Asked and Answered podcast, Senior Writer Stephanie Francis Ward talks to New York CPA Gary DuBoff about how to live within your means, how to figure out your set costs, and how to budget with what’s left over.
Sep 30, 2019 6:30 AM CDT
Sep 26, 2019 9:42 AM CDT
Law firm productivity is dropping, driven by accelerated hiring that is driving the supply of lawyers higher than demand for their services, according to a report released this week.
Productivity…
Aug 6, 2019 2:55 PM CDT
Maryland’s highest court has disbarred a lawyer for a “myriad of rule violations” that included calling a social worker who testified in one of his cases a “bitch.”
The Maryland…
Aug 1, 2019 10:13 AM CDT
Home movies are dominated by Netflix. And Amazon Prime’s subscription-based free shipping model has shaken up online commerce. Are law firms ready to move to a subscription-based model, too?
Jul 1, 2019 9:08 AM CDT
Scammers posed as DLA Piper lawyers in the United Kingdom to trick an entity into making a payment to a fraudulent bank account.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said in
The median salary for first-year associates was $155,000 at the beginning of the year, a jump of $20,000 from 2017, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Association…
May 23, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
Updated: A court fight between Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht and one of its former partners is airing allegations of financial misconduct, sexual assault, masturbation, retaliation and a $65…
May 21, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
Law firms are facing rising expenses that are partly fueled by associate pay raises, according to two reports on the economic outlook for law firms in the first quarter of…
May 16, 2019 3:28 PM CDT
Morrison & Foerster has reached a confidential settlement in a lawsuit accusing the law firm of “egregious overbilling” and a “billing feeding frenzy” after it was hired to help…
May 14, 2019 10:44 AM CDT
The percentage of equity partners in the nation’s top 100 law firms continued to decline last year, even as average revenue per lawyer increased.
The percentage of equity partners was…
May 7, 2019 6:30 AM CDT
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