A great work environment is key to achieving high productivity for lawyers. Yet a study from a major UK real estate consultancy has found that law firms (at least in the UK) are lagging behind other professionals in achieving great locations and a top environment. Duncan Weston, the Managing Partner at CMS Cameron McKenna wrote
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Law firm technology issues are a huge expense very often, yet they also provide equally large efficiences. But what are the best ways for a small law firm to start going about changing technology and better organising your law practice? A checklist was recently provided in an AbovetheLaw article by Jeff Bennion which looked at
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The passing of the same-sex legislation has seen the first LGBT divorce practise with a Philadelphia lawyer claiming that pioneering legal role. Conor Corcoran says he is ready to serve gay and lesbian couples who will need divorces, realizing that not all such marriages “would end in bliss”. “The whole thing about the sanctity of straight
Australian lawyers are in the money big time over a Corruption Inquiry that will see them taking in around $25 million in legal fees, with most of that going to Minter Ellison. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that barristers and solicitors are raking in about $25 million of taxpayer cash for their work on the
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DANIEL PAGANO, a Captain of the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Genovese Crime Family”) was sentenced to a term of 27 months in prison for his leadership role in the Genovese Crime Family. PAGANO
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Morrison & Foerster – On July 10, London associate Keily Blair received the 2015 Future Leaders Award at the sixth annual Women in the City Symposium and Awards Ceremony, held in the Old Library at the Lloyd’s Building in London. An associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department, Ms. Blair represents clients in investigations and
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If you’re going to get into a fight with Donald Trump you need a good lawyer – that much is a given. And Univision’s battle with Trump over their cancellation of the Miss USA show is a case in point. They have hired Miguel Estrada, a Honduras-born Harvard Law grad, who is to defend Univision’s
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Are there really too many law schools? Well, yes, actually and this month the ABA accredited another at Concordia University, taking the number beyond 200 in the US. But even the ABA are questioning whether this list should be expanded given that 10 US law schools were unable to place more than 30 per cent
Ballard Sphar – Louis L. Chodoff and Alexandra Bak-Boychuk – In a pair of closely watched decisions (see links below), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal trial court decision that granted class and conditional collective action certification to claims brought by a former unpaid intern claiming employee status, and also upheld a
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One of Canada’s largest law firms, Gowlings, is to merge with the UK firm Wragge Lawrence Graham to create another global law firm to be called Gowling WLG. joining with a British firm to create a partnership with global reach. Gowlings has 650 lawyers and the new entity will have 1300 lawyers and associated professionals
