The Global Financial Crisis has hit British law firms hard according to the Financial Times with the country’s largest law firms having their worst quarter since 2010. The FT reports: “The 100 biggest law firms by revenue grew billings by just 3.4 per cent in the quarter ending October 31 compared with 10 per cent […]
The law school rankings business has involved law schools “lying and cheating” to compete for new students with misleading stats and the ABA have strengthened their criteria for the disclosure requirements required of laws schools, writes Kyle McEntee the founder of Law School Transparency. McEnyee writes: “The November 29 New York Times editorial by Case
How exactly do you determine which is the most “valuable” law firm in the world? Where do you start and upon what stats do you base your decision? And who would do it? Silly question the last one because who else by The American Lawyer, who have determined that? While law firms have permitted outside
Gillian Hadfield is a professor of law and economics at the University of Southern California and she’s made some back-of-the-envelope calculations about lawyers and those who cannot afford them. Roughly half of all households in America are dealing with about two legal problems each and they cannot afford legal advice. She has some answers, too.
A former outside lawyer for Refco Inc, Joseph Collins, has been found guilty on seven of 10 charges following a four week retrial involving the defrauding of investors of $2.4 billion. Collins’ 2009 fraud conviction was reversed in January, was found guilty today by a jury in federal court in Manhattan. Jurors convicted Collins on
A study by Flex-Time Lawyers, an organization founded in Philadelphia in 1999 has surveyed firms to find which are most family-friendly and used to help women lawyers advance their careers in the law. The findings show that women are holding more positions on high-level law firm committees than the previous year and the trends appear
Will Eric Holder stay in his job as the top law dog in the Obama administration’s second term? Or will he decide there are “still things I want to do?” as he told students at the University of Baltimore. Holder said he still must speak with both Obama and his own family while considering what
Do lawyers recognize themselves in Obama, as compared to Mitt Romney. Lawyers and lobbyists tend to favor Democrats over Republicans if records since 1990 are examined, with contributions in 2008 of $79 million compared with $22 million for the GOP. According too The Lawyer newsletter lawyers donated more than twice as much to Democrat –
The urge to merge, as law blog AbovetheLaw puts it, has seen SNR Denton looking to put itself in a deal with Salans and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain. The merger would create a 2500 lawyer firm which would rival some of the BigLaw firms about. SNR Denton is already the result of a three-way
On-line promotion is finally making an impact on the global legal profession with the percentage of law firm marketing budgets devoted to web sites slightly exceeding business sector averages, according to research released today. Law firms consign old fashioned sales techniques to historyRelated storiesLawyers to sue publishers in groundbreaking caseThe survey of business law firms
