Mandatory retirement age restrictions have been a bugbear for employers – and employees – for as long as there has ben retirement. But for a Vancouver law firm, the issue has been taken to the Supreme Court of Canada, which has ruled that law firms and other partnershps can force partners to retire. Why? Because […]
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The problem or issue of the rain-making, king-hitting “gorilla” lawyer, the ones that are the big billers and big earners, is something that most firms value of necessity. But is that a correct standpoint. Legal consultant Tony Williams is a princpal of London-based Jomati Consultants and has worked internationally as a worldwide managing partner of
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Law firms are “late developers in talent management” according to Mary Cranston, former chair of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and successful class action litigator and company director. Interviewed by LawFuel publisher John Bowie, Mary Cranston has established herself as an innovative pioneer in terms of diversity employment practices, starting with her role as Pillsbury
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Pop-up shops are all the rage in some metropolitan areas, but having a pop-up law firm is quite another thing. However, a DC architecture practice, Gensler have created “the law firm of the future” as an exhibit at the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference and expo in Toronto this week, showing fesatures including open
The American Lawyer’s annual law firm rankings show some of the biggest are using a Swiss legal partnership to keep country profits separate. All of the firms have set up “vereins”—a Swiss legal partnership that lets the law firms maintain separate national or regional profit pools under a single brand. The AmLaw rankings also
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There are more law firm mergers than ever in the US but an important – if not leading question – has arisen: Do they work? Law firm consultants Altman Weil has been tracking the legal marketplace for such matters since 2007 and 2013 saw the largest number of law mergers since they began, with a
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The position of the United States has grown stronger in the world economy since the global financial crisis, according to Clifford Chance’s retiring managing partner David Childs. Childs spoke with Forbes writer Daniel Fisher and told him that there was no need for hand wringing about the financial crisis, as money and economic power flows
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Changing the traditional law firm model is something that is working with great success in Australia and the United Kingdom. The United States is much slower to grapple with the issue of introducing outside investment into law firms, but new law firm models continue to arise. The story of non-lawyer investment in the United
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LawFuel.com – Sedgwick Chudleigh’s Alex Potts and Chen Foley contributed a chapter on Bermuda Anti-Corruption Regulation law in the 2014 edition of Getting the Deal Through – Anti-Corruption Regulation 2014. The guide is a database of law and regulation in 60 practice areas and more than 150 jurisdictions containing concise explanations to the most important legal and
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It had to happen. With the increased commercial use of drones the lawyers are sitting up and wondering what the noise above is all about. Drones are being used increasingly for everything from surveying crops to photographing houses for estate agents – quite apart from efforts to destroy terrorists in the remotest parts of the
