If blogging is one of the best ways to build brand recognition and ranking for your law firm website, then how do you best go about finding top ideas about which to write? After all, many lawyers who put blood sweat and tears into blog items only to find they still don’t have readers flooding […]
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Many cheer the fact that increasing numbers of lawyers are unemployed and that law school applications are dropping through the floor, saying we didn’t need them anyway and that this trend must be a good thing. Not so say many, like Daniel P Porterfield in an opinion piece written for Forbes, where he explains that
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Ever imagined a robotic future for law firms – a place where robots and artificial intelligence are in complete command and where lawyers as we know them are, well, almost irrelevant? Well, imagine harder. Because that state of what has been described as “structural collapse” is coming according to a report on the future of
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Film-makers who “lawyer up” prior to the release of their projects are not particularly new, but in the case of HBO’s new documentary about the development of Scientology and its adherents, HBO have recruited positively platoons of lawyers – like 160 who are preparing for what the company believes will be an inevitable lawsuit. “We
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The demise of Dewey & LeBoeuf has created repercussions for a long time among a lot of people. The latest victim, but one who has chosen his own fate in many ways, is former Dewey partner John Altorelli who was sued for almost $13 million in the wake of the collapse and has now filed
Is this the uptick law firms have been waiting so long for? After some good news about raises in bonuses for three major New York law firms, lifting year-end bonuses by as much as $40,000, there has been a resurgence in merger and acquisition work and something else: more confidence. The news of bonus increases
Are the giddy heights of Big Law paydays here again for the year-end bonus season in New York? It would appear so if some of the city’s most prestigious law firms are anything to go by with bonuses to associates amounting to as much as $40,000 as a result of a growth in M&A work,
Privacy and other important legal rights are increasingly the subject of hot debate among lawyers and clients alike. But now the question raised in a Washington Post article is whether internet moguls with access to a goldmine of data have somehow elevated themselves above the law. Have they? The issue arose after Uber Technologies executive Emil Michael
Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld has found himself in hot water with students over an op-ed in the NY Times regarding campus rape. The professor’s problem is that he his comments about consent indicate that affirmative consent policies are unenforceable and too broad. More than 75 students have signed an open letter about the
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Dina Wang is a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School. She’s on twitter at @DinaSWang. Hiring big-hitting lawyers by General Counsel and large companies is going through a major ground-shift, according to a new study. The law firm pedigree may be less important than many of the Big Law
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