When the law firm founder leaves the room you know your law firm has some problems and in the case of LeClairRyan that appears to be the case. Founding partner Gary LeClair is leaving his firm along with two other partners, following a raft of departures from the firm. Last yeaar almost 10 per cent […]
The Jones Day lawsuit ‘virus’ is spreading. The Big Law firm faces further allegations of gender bias with claims being brought from its offices in both New York and Atlanta as three anonymous, former female associates of the firm saying that they suffered from Jones Days’ gender bias. Jones Day now faces allegations of gender
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Slaughter & May is the latest major law firm in London to life its associate pay, which is £100,000 including bonuses The pay increase follows recent moves by firms in The City, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance which both lifted their pay for newly-qualified (NQ) pay to £100,000 as the pay war started
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BSF has named new Administrative Partners and Deputy Administrative Partners to help lead five of its largest offices: New York, Washington D.C., Albany, Los Angeles, and Oakland. These new appointments will include the management of two new state-of-the-art BSF office spaces in New York City and Washington D.C., which opened in February 2019 and January
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Leading international law firm, Clifford Chance has launched a year-long trial across the firm’s offices in the Middle East to understand the impact of removing utilisation – total billable hours as a percentage of total hours available to be worked – from its assessment of lawyer contribution and performance. The pilot programme, which will include
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Slaughter and May partners, Sarah Lee and Nilufer von Bismarck have been named, for the fourth consecutive year, in the EMpower 100 Ethnic Minority Executives List. The List, celebrates the achievements of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) business leaders who are helping to make the workplace a more welcoming place for ethnic minority employees.
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MoFo Named “Ceiling Smashing” Firm for Women PartnersIn Law360’s annual Glass Ceiling report, MoFo was recognized as one of the top 10 big law firms, referred to as “The Ceiling Smashers.” The list recognizes those firms that have the highest representation of women in their equity partnerships. Law360’s annual report collects data from more than 300
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MILAN, 16 May 2019 – Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, one of the largest in the United States, announced that effective July 1, 2019, it will combine with its longstanding ally Santa Maria Studio Legale, a truly elite Italian boutique, and simultaneously add stars in the real estate and finance fields from Freshfields in Milan. The result will
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Cleary Gottlieb partners Claudia Annacker and Ferdinando Emanuele have been lauded as 2019 “Lawyers of the Year” and the firm’s Italy and France offices were named “Firms of the Year” at the inaugural Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards. The winning national firm and lawyer awards are: Claudia Annacker: France Lawyer of the Year Ferdinando Emanuele: Italy Lawyer of
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We have elected 33 new partners across 14 offices. 33% of new partners are women. The global nature of our 2019 partnership election demonstrates the firm’s truly global reach as well as breadth and depth of knowledge across multiple practice areas. Our recent promotions embody an ambition to deliver to clients the most competitive offering
