Stepping Up The Diversity Pace There 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’ […]
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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
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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
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
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
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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Law firm DWF has been valued at the largest amount of any law firm in Britain’s law firm IPO history with a value of almost $US500m (£366m), the firm announced this week. The legal firm intends offering over 78 million shares to provide £95.2 million, according to a Financial Times report. DWF’s offering is the
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Barnes & Thornburg Enhances Legal Operations Amidst Growing Demand New Chief Legal Operations Officer Jared Applegate leads multidisciplinary team focused on delivering value above and beyond what clients expect INDIANAPOLIS (March 6, 2019) – Continuing its strong commitment to building sustainable, outcome-driven partnerships with clients, Barnes & Thornburg has announced the formal launch of its Legal
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White & Case are only part way through their globe-girdling growth path but have now cross over the $2 billion mark in revenues, growing revenues by $246 million in 2018. An ALM report on the firm showed that revenue per lawyer jumped 7.8 percent to $954,000, and profits per equity partner increased 6.2 percent to
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A ‘Good Health’ tick has been provided to the major UK law firms with the revelation of the the largest 200 UK law firms of 2018 revealed with the publication of The Lawyer UK 200: Top 100 2018. But there are threats to their continued dominance. The rankings show that the largest 200 firms based in the
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