Law Firms

Rather, it divvied up the law-firm world into practice areas and, within each practice area, separated the firms into tiers. Fair enough, U.S. News. And probably sensible, but a lot less fun than a straight numerical ranking. Some of the practice areas are biggies, like General Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Bankruptcy and IP. Others are […]

By Steve Gibson, William Henderson, Caren Ulrich Stacy, and Chris Zorn* For more than a century, baseball has been been known as America’s pastime. Change comes slowly to the game, and tradition is sacred. But as the recent film Moneyball details, one key part of the baseball edifice—the way that teams select and develop their

The attorneys behind class actions against New York Law School and Thomas M. Cooley Law School announced plans on Oct. 5 to sue 15 additional law schools for publishing what they described as misleading postgraduate job statistics. They have yet to secure enough name plaintiffs for those suits, however. They won’t file until three alumni

They have no partner structure, their attorneys work mostly from home or clients’ offices, and they bill at half the rates of big law firms. Two years after jumping into the Washington market during the depths of the recession, ­­­Axiom Law, a legal services provider with an un­or­tho­dox business model, is making major inroads here.

It’s hard to get a job at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the prominent law firm based in New York. But thanks to an iPhone and iPad app the firm has developed, Skadden applicants may find the recruiting process a smidge easier to navigate. The app, called Skadden Start Here, is available for free

The U.S. legal profession is going through some heavy turbulence these days: downsizing at larger law firms, a more competitive business environment, the growing impact of globalization and technology, and angst about job prospects and debt. Nevertheless, the national lawyer population still is on the rise, according to the ABA’s 2011 National Lawyer Population Survey

More than a hundred years ago, an ambitious business lawyer developed a new way to organize a law firm. The firm combined teams of specialized lawyers with an incentive structure that rewarded efficiency and high-quality work. The coordination of skill and effort enable the firm to handle large, complex legal matters and obtain excellent, cost-effective

Osama bin Laden was killed, not captured. If he had been taken into custody, what followed would have been the most complex and wrenching legal proceeding in American history. The difficulties would have been endless: military tribunal or criminal trial? Abroad—at Guantánamo?—or inside the United States? Would bin Laden have been granted access to the