Law Firms

Bert Fields has been Tom Cruise’s lawyer for much of his 83 years. And there’s no doubting the lawyer can still write a damn good letter. His latest, to the National Enquirer, threatens defamation over an article the newspaper wrote labelling Mr Fields’ client “a monster”. The Tom Cruise divorce has preoccupied the media and […]

Which law firms are hiring in the US – which are not? The WSJ Law Blog put together a chart based on a Chambers Associates’ survey showing the summer and first-year associates hirings. Davis Polk come in as number one. “The ranks of summer associates were larger in 2012 than in 2011 at more than

Law jobs are way down. So how are the law schools reacting – by changing their curricula to adapt to the changed conditions, mainly by giving greater emphasis to practical courses like clinics and simulations. The National Law Journal reports. The dismal job market for newly minted lawyers has influenced how most law school administrators

Big British law firms are on a global roll, looking for growth in the new, emerging markets. But, taking a leaf from the Dewey & Leboeuf book, the firms are doing so with caution, as The Economist reports. Consider London’s top five law firms, known as the “magic circle”. Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance

The American Lawyer’s A List has been topped again by Hughes Hubbard, using a pro-bono rating formula together with revenues-per-lawyer, lawyer satisfaction levels and diversity performance. A recent arrival at the list has been Akin Gump. The AmLaw survey shows that large law firms’ pro bono work continued to drop last year, both in terms

Cravath Swaine announced a new leadership change last week, replacing Evan Chester, the lawyer who created a storm amid legal circles with his Forbes magazine article last year about killing the billable hour. The American Lawyer reprots that Deputy presiding partner C. Allen Parker will become the firm’s presiding partner in January and that the

TV law shows have been a staple since – well, since before Perry Mason. So the ABA Journal have come up with the top 25 law TV shows, starting with LA Law and running through the gamut of trial attorneys, small and big lawyers and everyone in between. TV has always loved lawyers. From Perry

Katie Holmes has hired famed Hollywood attorney Bert Fields to represent her in the divorce from Tom Cruise, which she announced on Thursday after lengthy rumors about the health of the couples’ marriage. Bert Fields has been a famous lawyer in Hollywood. At 83 he is still a high billing attorney who has previously represented

Women in the law – always an interesting issue and one raised recently in the best-ever read article in Atlantic (from Anne-Marie Slaughter) and entitled “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All”. Now AbovetheLaw have had their writer Valerie Katz take a small firm look at whether size is really important for women. The article