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 las […]
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, which
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 reportedly smeared
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 op-ed.The Huffington
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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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The US has become aghast that beloved Bill Cosby could really be someone who had sexually abused women at the height of his fame. Could this be true? His lawyer, John Schmitt, did the lawyering on the swirling rumors and accusations: He would not dignify the “decade-old, discredited” claims with a response.He released a statement
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The merger between Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Bingham McCutchen has been placed Jami Wintz McKeon as a powerful lady in the law. Already chairing Morgan Lewis and acting as the woman heading the largest law firm in the US, she now rides shotgun on the merged firm which was described by Philly.com as a kind of ‘law firm
At last! After a long gestation it appears that Morgan Lewis & Bockius are to “kind of” merge with Bingham McCutchen. Kind of? Morgan Lewis are to take on 227 partners from Binghams, leaving around 60 in the cold. The deal follows Bingham voting in favor of the deal.Reuters report today that a Morgan Lewis spokeswoman
Among the many issues arising for women in the law, pregnancy is the major bugbear forstalling careers and leaving women stranded from making partner, the boardroom or lofty heights. And so when a New York lawyer requested that an upcoming trial be postponed because of her pregnancy, it lead to a major row.Deborah N Misir
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke left a lot of money when she died – over $1 billion in fact – and it has now been left with a once-bankrupt lawyer who lost over $4.5 million of client money in a venture that was connected to a Ponzi scheme, according to the New York Post.The Post reported
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