Law firm marketing is an ongoing battle, but the battle for the law marketplace has become harder as inhouse law departments do their comparison shopping for legal work. Attorney at Law’s Elizabeth Lampert, who runs Elizabeth Lampert PR, along with Nigel Savage of Savage Communications, both of which assist law firms with their directory and […]
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A storm has erupted over the law firm at the center of the investigation of Jackson Kelly, the sponsor of a mining convention in Denver where Senator Joe Manchin, a close ally of the coal industry, launched his defense of his “dear friends” at the law firm that has been at the center of coal
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As more law firms fail the risk of hiring laterals has placed the hiring law firms in line for potential legal action by the bankruptcy trustee of the failed firm. Arnold & Porter partners wrote the following for Law360, dealing with issues about minimizing risk in lateral hires. By Lisa Hill Fenning, Pamela Phillips, Jonathan
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The death of the hourly fee has been predicted with varying degrees of confidence for some years – but will it ever happen? Well, it is occurring slowly but surely among a growing number of law firms who are continuing to experiment with alternative fee arrangements and to think outside the hourly fee square. The
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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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LawFuel.com – White & Case partner Jeannine Yoo Sano was named a “Top Litigator of Intellectual Property” in California by the Daily Journal, a California legal publication. The Daily Journal highlighted Sano’s work as lead trial attorney in winning a complete defense jury verdict on behalf of Autodesk, Inc. in a patent infringement lawsuit in
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By LawFuel contributor, Kevin Mackee. Law firms looking to recruit lateral partners should consider some key factors that can put them ahead of the competition when it comes to attracting quality candidates for their firms. Here are some key points that can lift your firm above the crowd in the search for good laterals prepared
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We knew it. The main reason partners leave law firms is the firm “culture”, that over-worked word that law firms usually employ in the positive sense. Unfortunately, it also has some major negatives when “culture” is negative, bad or just downright disagreeable for the jumping-ship partners. The survey, from legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa
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Law firm rankings? Where would we be without them. The first quarter of the 2014 Am Law rankings, released this week, and for M&A advisors has Skadden Arps and Simpson Tacher in the top three. The charts were released by various media entities and trends were based on the value of coprorate clients’ transactions internationally
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER KEY, a/k/a “Luchie,” a violent and large-scale drug trafficker who operated in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York, was found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of two murder-for-hire conspiracies, attempted murder, and narcotics and firearms offenses. KEY was
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