Law Firms

Andrew Nulty, 42, the highest-earning solicitor in Britain in 2005-06, has been ordered to appear before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. Mr Nulty, whose father and grandfather were miners, heads a list of Britain’s top-earning lawyers that was published yesterday by The Lawyer magazine. He is the senior partner of Avalon Solicitors, which has made multimillion-pound […]

The record partner profits come after Linklaters’ revenues jumped 16 per cent to £935 million in the 2005-06 financial year on the back of a continuing global boom in mergers and acquisitions and private equity-related work. Slaughter and May, the smallest of the five so-called Magic Circle law firms, is Linklaters’ closest rival with 90

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

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

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