[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rebranding law firms – like rebranding any other product or service – is fraught with potential pitfalls. So how does a 150 year old law firm go about the process and what lessons might they have learned in the process? The case of 150 year old Bradley Arant is a good one to look […]
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Technology continues to disrupt the business of law – but now major law firm Allen + Overy are actively supporting the trend with the opening of a new tech space area they sponsor called ‘Fuse’. The Fuse space is being offered to startups involved in legal technology developments, accommodating up to 60 people involved
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”95837″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Boies Schiller’s success is due to a variety of factors, not the least being the firm’s ability to not just capitalize upon its star principal David Boies, but also to a formula that has projected the firm into the legal stratosphere. The firm’s co-founder and managing partner Jonathan Schiller was interviewed by
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Preet Bharara, one of the highest profiles of the US Attorneys fired by President Trump and an outspoken prosecutor who has worked hard to help eradicate corruption. A New York federal prosecutor, he refused to stand down as one of the 46 US attorneys who Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought to fire and who
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1488965131109{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1488965681830{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”] Former Nixon lawyer John Dean is once again on Trump Attack, saying the President is “way off base” after his Obama wiretap claim. The former counsel, who said President Trump faced calamity following his firing of
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Big Name law firms are working to woo work from London’s fintech startups in the hope of building valuable business from the fast-growing sector. Fintech is likely to provide major disruption to the banking arena, but that digital disruption has not always been accompanied by a detailed legal analysis of the implications, which is
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The assistant to the fired acting Attorney General Sally Q Yates has been hired by British-based Big Law firm Linklaters in their Washington DC office. Ms Yates was fired by the President after refusing to enforce his executive orders in the so-called “Muslim ban”. Her deputy is Matthew S Axelrod, who has taken a
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Technology continues to cut into legal budgets, increasing the need for law firms to get ‘with it’ and increase efficiencies. Take JPMorgan, who have adopted new “COIN” software (that means ‘Contract Intelligence’), which reviews their loan agreements and cuts their legal expediture. COIN will do in seconds the work once requiring 360,000 hours each
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Could your law job actually be one of the world’s most boring? According to a new survey from a UK firm, law tops the list as the most boring of occupations. The employment firm Emolument surveyed 1,300 professionals in search of the dullest jobs across 14 professional sectors. And eight out of 10 lawyers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Slater and Gordon’s news these days is going from bad to worse. Following a first half loss of AUD$425 million the law firm’s shares continue to plummet, dropping 25 per cent this week. The increased loss was due to a AUD$350 million additional writedown on its disastrous UK business, which the firm has been
