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The Groundbreaking Legal Battle Intuit Faces Over Alleged Consumer Fraud

Big Law, Featured / February 28, 2022

In addition to the unusual mass arbitration Intuit is fighting, federal regulators and state prosecutors are still investigating the company, which made $2 billion dollars last year. Justin Elliott* Faced with a class-action suit filed on behalf of customers who claim they were tricked into paying to file their taxes, TurboTax-maker Intuit knocked the case […]

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The BigLaw Partners Earning Big Money at Kirkland & Ellis . . And Where That Leaves The Rest

Big Law, Headlining, Law Firms / February 21, 2022

Kirkland & Ellis is a billion dollar revenue machine but it still faces issues attracting key legal talent – why?

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Legal Services Immunity in the Face of the Pandemic

Big Law, Headlining / February 11, 2022

‘What pandemic?’ the legal services markets seem to say . . Legal services revenues have not been touched by the pandemic during the past year, according to figures in the UK that show a major growth in revenues for the sector – a fact that is also evident with the US legal sector. The UK’s

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Clifford Chance Reviews

Big Law, Law Firms / February 4, 2022

Former Employee, more than 5 years Organization with good growth prospects 31 Jan 2022 – Technical Manager in Gurgaon, HaryanaRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness Outlook Pros Good work life balance Good leadership Decent remuneration Good benefits and perks Open and transparent culture Cons Limited choice on kind of work available Love it 17 Jan 2022 – Senior Associate in Beijing, BeijingRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness

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Baker McKenzie Wins Leading Law Brand Title For 12th Year

Big Law, Press Releases / January 27, 2022

Baker McKenzie has been named as the world’s leading law firm brand for the 12th consecutive year in the latest Thomson Reuters Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index. In the 2022 index, Baker McKenzie scored more than double the points of the Firm’s nearest competitor, receiving an overall score of 100, which is 56 points

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Baker McKenzie Increases Associate Salary Pay

Big Law, Law Firms, Law Job News / January 25, 2022

Baker McKenzie has matched the big lift in associate salaries by adding $10,000 to the $20,000 paid to lawyers in the one-year to eight-year experience level. The lift follows the ongoing rise in biglaw associate pay levels, pushing the payments to their highest level. The Baker McKenzie move is backdated to January 1. First year

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UK Law Firm Salaries Continue Upwards With Two More Firms Lifting NQs Salaries

Big Law / January 21, 2022

The war for legal talent continues unabated as two biglaw UK firms have announced increases in their payments to newly-qualified lawyers, showing that the surge in law profession payments has hardly abated. The influence of US biglaw firms’ salary levels sent the London and other UK law firms into a major, upward spiral, which commenced

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Arent Fox Hired by Microsoft To Examine Sexual Harassment Issues

Big Law, Featured / January 13, 2022

Sexual harassment claims against Microsoft have seen Arent Fox appointed to conduct a review

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The Sanity-Defying Faustian Pact Struck By Biglaw Junior Lawyers

Big Law, Headlining / January 5, 2022

The salaries may be eye-popping and the addition to their CVs prestigious, but for midnight-oil burning junior lawyers working at Biglaw firms the deal is largely a ‘Faustian pact’, as lawyers continue to leave elite law firms despite the money and prestige . . but the deals and work continues to flow. UK legal services

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Biglaw Lateral Moves Continue As Cravath’s Lose Senior Lawyer

Big Law, Featured / January 1, 2022

As biglaw firms move increasingly away from the lockstep compensation system, the ongoing lateral law firm movements between them continues with one of the latest, high profile hires being Cravath Swaine & Moore partner Jennifer Conway who has moved to Davis, Polk & Wardwell. We recently reported about the lockstep compensation system being on its

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