The diversity issue among law firms is a vexed one, but also one that has some ready and fast fixes. Take the article written by Deborah L Rhode*, Professor of Law at Ernest W McFarland and author, she postulates that women and others should not be viewed by lawyers as ‘minorities’ but rather as ‘priorities’. […]
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Seven partners establish finance, corporate, regulatory, private equity and real estate practices Global law firm Reed Smith has today announced a significant investment in its European platform with the opening of an office in Frankfurt. The opening is in response to growing client demand in the German market and builds on the success of
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It may be anathema to suggest that a law firm actually recommends a competitor for a specific job, but that is exactly what one senior General Counsel says should be occurring much more frequently. Mark Chandler is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer at Cisco Systems and he recommends
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A new survey on the way law firms are managed has been published, predicting dramatic shifts in the way law firms handle highly competitive markets over the next five years, as well as dealing with risk and regulation, financial pressure and changing client demands. The report from the accounting giant BDO took the views of
So what, exactly, is a ‘family friendly’ law firm? Do they really exist and, if so, how are they measured in terms of family ‘friendliness’? All important issues, considered by Vivia Chen at The Careerist when she wrote a little cynically perhaps that being a family friendly law firm probably means that there are great
Morrison & Foerster – LawFuel.com – – Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that bengoshi corporate partner Saori Nakamura has relocated to the firm’s Singapore office from Ito & Mitomi, registered associated offices of Morrison & Foerster in Japan. A member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Ms. Nakamura represents multinational corporations in a
Profits-per-partner is the golden metric that top law firms, or those aspiring to increase profits, place as their holy grail. So it should come as little surprise that the top law firms in the US keep low partner concentrations in order to preserve that vital metric. Law360s ranking of the top US law firms showed
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Sedgwick LLP, the international Big Law firm, has lost dozens of attorneys last year, including 12 percent of its partners. Law360 reports the departures streaming from the firm, which his shifting its practice away from areas like intellectual property law and real estate to focus on what the firm says are its core areas of
We know the whole business of law is changing – greater competition, fees pressures, alternative billing arrangements – but should the entire partnership structure be abandoned? It is already happening in some jurisdictions, but the move by Australian and UK law regulators to free up the law business and permit the introduction of outside capital
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Issues to increase law firm productivity have long excited the interest of law firm managers, but an English firm has now taken on a ‘paid time off’ (PTO) policy that lets employees take the time they like from the firm. The firm, Ashton KCJ in East Anglia, is trialling the policy with a few towards
