ATL Top Law Schools Ranking Focus on Law Job Outlook Ben Thomson, LawFuel Contributor The 2024 Above the Law (ATL) Top 50 Law Schools Rankings focus on evaluating law schools based on their ability to deliver gainful legal employment to graduates, an approach that prioritizes practical outcomes over traditional metrics such as library size or […]
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A Lawyer’s Guide to Virtual Legal Assistants As a lawyer, your time is valuable. The American Bar Association’s 2023 Legal Technology Survey Report found that lawyers spend only 2.5 hours per day on average on billable work. AI-powered legal assistants are rapidly transforming the legal sector, acting as virtual colleagues that empower lawyers to focus
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Key Advice For New Lawyers Jordan Furlong, Legal market analyst and consultant The ability to initiate, grow and maintain professional business relationships is absolutely critical to your future legal career. Here’s why these skills matter and how to start developing them. f you are: (a) starting or continuing your law degree, (b) preparing for bar
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Kaplan Hires Boost Litigation Boutique Roberta Kaplan, the Trump-beating, prominent Manhattan litigator, is strengthening her newly established litigation boutique, Kaplan Martin, by hiring former colleagues from her previous firm. The firm announced on Thursday that Christopher Le Coney and D. Brandon Trice have joined as partners, moving from their counsel roles at Kaplan Hecker &
Clio Report Indicates Growing Role of AI Tom Borman, LawFuel lawtech contributor Mid-sized law firms using online payments are getting paid more than twice as fast as those not using such systems, according to the 2024 Legal Trends for Mid-Sized Law Firms report that Clio published earlier this year. But what does the report show
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Is The Law Grad Boom Ending? The Class of 2023 law grads just pulled off a legal Houdini act, escaping the chains of unemployment with record-breaking ease. The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) is tingling with warning: this legal Lollapalooza isn’t going to last. The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) reports that 2023
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Gibson Dunn partner Katherine Moran Meeks is making a career 180 pulling a reverse-Peter Parker, going from mild-mannered reporter to legal superhero, now appointed General Counsel at Fox News. Before she was arguing cases, Meeks was chasing them as a reporter for The Day and The Times-Picayune. Now, she’s set to tackle “the legal intricacies
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Record Herbert Smith Profits Reported Herbert Smith Freehills’ financial report card shows that they too are setting records in the law firm reporting season upon us. HSF has been raking it in this year, setting new records for revenue, profit, and partner pay. Being a British-registered firm, they’ve got to show their hand, and the
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EY To Dentons For Barton Dentons – the monster law firm – just dropped some serious news that they’ve tapped Kate Barton as their new Global CEO. And they scored a heavyweight. Barton’s coming in hot from EY, where she’s been for 35 years. We’re talking executive leadership roles galore, with her most recent gig
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The Clifford Chance partner dismissed following alleged “serious misconduct” vehemently denies the allegations and alleges the global firm breached confidentiality obligations it had when communicating with clients. Dr. Sam Luttrell, widely recognized as a top-tier arbitration specialist, who joined the firm in 2013 as a Senior Associate, reportedly submitted his resignation in March, protesting the
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