We knew it. The main reason partners leave law firms is the firm “culture”, that over-worked word that law firms usually employ in the positive sense. Unfortunately, it also has some major negatives when “culture” is negative, bad or just downright disagreeable for the jumping-ship partners. The survey, from legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa […]
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NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) – A lawsuit has been unsealed accusing OneWest Bank FSB, a lender once known as IndyMac Bancorp Inc, of causing the U.S. government to improperly pay out $206 million under a federal program to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure. According to a so-called whistleblower complaint made public on Tuesday, OneWest
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HONG KONG, April 9, 2014 LawFuel.com — CPA Global, one of the world’s leading providers of outsourced intellectual property (IP) and legal support services, has been named in the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals’ (IAOP’s) Global Outsourcing 100 for a fourth time. This prestigious top 100 listing covers the leading players in all disciplines
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Former Pillsbury Winthrop CEO Mary Cranston spoke to LawFuel about New Zealand law firms, noting that they included some of the best law firm managers in the world and the country’s record with the recently published Economist glass ceiling index, which indicated that New Zealand was fifth in the world on the index, behind the
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Like to see the data on the National Association for Law Placement and whether law schools are withholding information from their ‘consumers’? Law.com’s Kylee McEntee has written about the list of schools publishing NALP reports for 2010-2012, with the largest number (108 reports) for 2012. To see the data go to the LST Score Reports.
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LawFuel.com – On 1 April 2014, the changes to UK competition law brought about by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 take effect. Companies need to be aware of the heightened regulatory risk as a result of the changes in a number of areas. These include stronger investigative powers, possible earlier intervention in mergers
Law firm rankings? Where would we be without them. The first quarter of the 2014 Am Law rankings, released this week, and for M&A advisors has Skadden Arps and Simpson Tacher in the top three. The charts were released by various media entities and trends were based on the value of coprorate clients’ transactions internationally
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEPHEN COLANGELO, Jr., was sentenced yesterday to 87 months in prison in connection with two separate schemes that defrauded investors out of more than $3.5 million. COLANGELO’s first scheme involved a hedge fund he controlled called the Brickell Fund, LLC
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Former Pillsbury Winthrop senior partner and chair Mary Cranson spoke to LawFuel about gender diversity issues in law firms, noting the top three things she recommends that law firms – and others – need to do in order to achieve gender diversity. Ms Cranston’s successful reign at Pillsburys saw the firm expand from its California
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Winnie M Li wrote this article about her experience being raped while at Harvard and how her case was handled. Her article appears in the Huffington Post. When I woke up this morning a friend had mailed me this anonymous article by a current under-graduate about Harvard’s mishandling of her sexual assault case. “This made
