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Boies’ Firm Secures Succession Plan After Tumultous Time

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Law firm Since Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has long been associated with name partner the famed litigator David Boies.Boies Schiller this week named for the first time managing partners who don’t have their names in the firm, being New York-based Nicholas Gravante Jr. and London-based Natasha Harrison (pictured below).The announcement comes after a tumultuous period for David […]

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Litigation Law Firm Goes The Crypto Currency Payment Route

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Law firms are carefully examining the ethical and risk issues attaching to accepting crypto currency payments The ‘feared’ litigation juggernaut Quinn Emanuel has indicated it will take crypto currency payments after examining the options of doing so.The firm that is regarded by some as the firm most lawyers are afraid of seeing on the opposite

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Forget Hot Desking and Open Plans – Here’s a Law Firm Going Back to Private Spaces

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The strong trend towards open plan office space is something we’ve written about previously, but the honest approach, according to one major Australian law firm, is because open plan = less expense.And they don’t want lawyers to be battery hens.The firm recently designed new offices for its Brisbane and Cairns offices, but it decided that

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Gender Diversity in Law – Here’s One Firm Going Beyond the Lip Service?

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Stepping Up The Diversity PaceThere is great huffing and puffing about what law firms are doing in the diversity space and Whitney & Dorsey have not exactly lead the pack, ranking at 141st place for Am Law’s 2019 Diversity Scorecard recently.But times are changing and the firm is now introducing a new ‘diversity hours’ policy that

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The Key Threats Facing Law Firm Growth and Profitability

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Keeping page with fast-moving technology – and keeping staff – are two key challenges facing law firms, a fact verified by a recent survey undertaken by the Australian Financial Review in their ‘Partnership Survey’.The two are the major competitive threat to their business model, the survey revealed, as well as changing client demands and economic

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Clyde & Co – Growth Down Under

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UK-based Clyde & Co is to continue its aggressive Australian expansion, including by poaching partners, a Law.com report says.The firm has experienced strong, double-digit growth on the back of litigation growth in the Australian market, since establishing itself in Australia in 2012.“We are aggressively pursuing growth in each of the industries that we are focusing

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The Challenge Ahead for Law Firms – Why They Need to Think Hard About Profitability and Client Service

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Mark Medice* – Mark Twain is often reputed to have stated that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”  This phrase comes to mind when reading recent reports from The American Lawyer on the performance of large law firms in 2018.  In its reporting, The American Lawyer observed that the Am Law 100 grew revenue at 8% over

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The Avenatti Case Is Another Boies Schiller High Stakes Case That Is Part of the Boies Firm’s DNA

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Connecting a star law firm like Boies Schiller Flexner with a high profile case such as that involving star lawyer Michael Avenatti has become something of a byword for the way in which Boies’ law firm operates.The Avenatti arrest sent an already hyper-intense media into overdrive as the former lawyer for Adult actress Stormy Daniels

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Why Law Firms Need a Human Shield As the First Line of Defense Against Phishing

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Will Bartlett* Cyber attacks on law firms continue to be a major threat, one of the latest such techniques being the so-called ‘spear phishing’ approach where hackers contact a target and impersonate a trusted client or individual. But it is a human shield defense rather than just technology against phishing that provides the greatest protection

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