Law firm mergers are hardly anything new, but watching small firms grown into big ones is one of the trends encouraged through deregulated markets, like the UK legal market. And so the most recent news of a UK legal merger, between a firm that had its origins in Liverpool over 200 years ago and […]
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Does Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision upholding a Michigan ban on affirmative action open the way for lawmakers in other states to establish their own bans? The decision also proves the tension among the Supreme Court Justices about the need – or otherwise – for specific programs that deal with race inequality in the United States.
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Law firm marketing is an ongoing battle, but the battle for the law marketplace has become harder as inhouse law departments do their comparison shopping for legal work. Attorney at Law’s Elizabeth Lampert, who runs Elizabeth Lampert PR, along with Nigel Savage of Savage Communications, both of which assist law firms with their directory and
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Office design is a key factor in workplace efficiency and a press release from architectural practise OTJ Architects indicates there is increased emphasis today upon efficiency of space usage together with a re-evaluation of workplace standards. Their release: When working on a Law Office Design project, the interior design professionals at OTJ Architects, understand
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A storm has erupted over the law firm at the center of the investigation of Jackson Kelly, the sponsor of a mining convention in Denver where Senator Joe Manchin, a close ally of the coal industry, launched his defense of his “dear friends” at the law firm that has been at the center of coal
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As more law firms fail the risk of hiring laterals has placed the hiring law firms in line for potential legal action by the bankruptcy trustee of the failed firm. Arnold & Porter partners wrote the following for Law360, dealing with issues about minimizing risk in lateral hires. By Lisa Hill Fenning, Pamela Phillips, Jonathan
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The death of the hourly fee has been predicted with varying degrees of confidence for some years – but will it ever happen? Well, it is occurring slowly but surely among a growing number of law firms who are continuing to experiment with alternative fee arrangements and to think outside the hourly fee square. The
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The New York Times has taken aim at the lawyers – or more correctly, those who administer lawyers – to determine that at least in the highly lawyer-populated New York, the way in which bad lawyers are administered is both inconsistent and often hidden. The NYT considers that a state with 166,000 lawyers should be
A lawsuit filed on behalf of two Japanese-American former Japanese sex slaves is one of the most controversial lawsuits filed in the United States. Forbes contributor Eamonn Fingelton writes about the little-known lawsuit that has enraged many, including many lawyers and legal bloggers. One, LA criminal lawyer Ken White calls the lawsuit “thoroughly contemptible.” Others
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There are more law firm mergers than ever in the US but an important – if not leading question – has arisen: Do they work? Law firm consultants Altman Weil has been tracking the legal marketplace for such matters since 2007 and 2013 saw the largest number of law mergers since they began, with a
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