The Super Lawyer moniker is the invention of the Minnesota magazine Law & Politics, and it’s become a nationwide sensation, an annual ad supplement that now runs in publications in 31 states and provides the attorneys so designated with a new tool for promoting themselves. But New Jersey has a warning for lawyers who want […]
The most common first-year associate salary at law firms with more than 500 attorneys climbed to $135,000 in 2006, NALP reported. That figure likely was welcome relief for law graduates, whose salaries at those firms were stagnant at $125,000 from 2000 to 2005. The rise in pay, in large part, represents a competition among law
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For quality of life rankings, Vault asked associates to rate their own firms on issues such as treatment by partners, formal training, informal training and mentoring, hours and compensation and then scored the firms against each other. Vault has also surveyed law firm partners from the nation’s most prestigious firms, resulting in the first ever
Law professors are mindful of where their scholarship lands, particularly when it’s in a court decision. Douglas A. Berman, who focuses on criminal sentencing law at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, is no exception. He considers citation counts the “currency of a law professor’s work.” While Berman has penned more than 50 law
Gaunt, pale and weary but distinctively impertinent, Saddam Hussein emerged from a hunger strike for closing defense arguments today in the first trial examining the alleged crimes of his deposed government. The former Iraqi president, sturdy though fed through a tube for more than two weeks and hospitalized for the last three days, lashed out
Rob Moodie, 67, a former representative rugby player and Police Association secretary, turned heads at the High Court in Wellington yesterday when he arrived for a hearing dressed in a skirt and carrying a handbag. Dr Moodie, a married father of three, says his behaviour is not a publicity stunt. He is heterosexual but has
Some of their biggest corporate clients are demanding that they increase the number of minority and women associates and partners. Indeed, for some companies, diversity is as important as cost-cutting and performance when evaluating which law firm to hire. And they are threatening to fire firms that do not show enough progress. Until recently, “law
Who can forget the voices of Enron’s traders, caught on tape as a damaging wildfire raged during the California energy crisis, exulting in the profits they were reaping from the state’s misery? “Burn, baby, burn,” one said gleefully. Many of those tapes would never have seen the light of day if it weren’t for a
Headed by the redoutable Jonathan Sumption QC and Jonathan Hirst QC, Brick Court Chambers remains the UK’s largest set by turnover and is one of only four chambers to post a revenue per barrister figure of more than £500,000. The set’s case list is one to be envied. The year saw Sir Sydney Kentridge QC
Hogan & Hartson was on a roll as it marked its 100th anniversary in November 2004. The firm was in the middle of an international expansion, was seeing a big jump in corporate work, and remained — in spite of greater competition inside the Beltway — the largest firm in Washington, D.C. Partners were in
