Australian lawyers at the top firms either met or exceeded their pro bono quotas, according to the Australian National Pro Bono Resource Centre (NPBRC), which involved an annual target of 35 hours per lawyer per year. The target was reached by over half of the top 20 firms. Seventeen firms are signatories to the target. […]
Women are slowly – but hopefully surely – climbing to the top of major law firms. The debate over women leadership and partnership numbers in law firms has long been debated and argued, but two recent announcements give cause for hope for women lawyers. Jami Wintz McKeon (pictured) has become the first female chair of Morgan
Robin Oliver works at JDSupra as business development manager and wrote a useful and pertinent post about lawyers and how they should be marketing their content. My friend and colleague Adrian Lurssen has a mantra you may have heard him utter over the years at various conferences and on webinars to do with content marketing:
On September 8, 2014, Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery granted Cravath’s motion to dismiss in its entirety a putative class action lawsuit filed by the City of Providence on behalf of shareholders of First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (“First Citizens North”). The suit challenged the company’s forum-selection bylaw — adopted on
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WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced today the issuance of a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) that imposes additional reporting and recordkeeping obligations on certain trades and businesses located within the Los Angeles Fashion District. The GTO will enhance law enforcement’s ongoing efforts to identify and pursue cases against persons and businesses
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Another accounting giant has entered the legal market with KPMG confirming that it has its “law licence” under the alternative buisness tructure system form the Solicitors Regulation Authority in Britain. The KPMG Legal team already has 50 people and is readying itself to make £10m of revenues this year. “We are in recruitment mode: we
The global law firm Jones Day has been ranked among the “Fearsome Foursome” — the law firms that clients would least like to see on the other side of the table — for the third consecutive time according to the BTI Litigation Outlook 2015 report, published this month by the BTI Consulting Group, Inc. Jones
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Washington, D.C. – Akin Gump is pleased to announce it has been named one of Law360’s Pro Bono Firms of 2014. This is the second straight year Akin Gump has received this honor, which recognizes law firms that “went above and beyond for their pro bono clients” during the past 12 months. As part of
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h TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—In recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Attorney General Pam Bondi will have the Old Historic Capitol in Tallahassee illuminated in purple on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College in Miami and the SunTrust Financial Centre in Tampa are also
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Quick question: Does the merger mania afflicting the legal market auger well or not for the law business? Is it panic, in other words, at pressured fees and increased competition, or is it the result of carefully thought through business development and marketing? Well, according to research recently undertaken, the mergers have not only created
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