The Legal AI Case Study Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor Legal AI is overtaking many areas of business and daily life, including law firms who continue to learn how to best embrace the technology rather than being overwhelmed by it. A recent study in Law.com of one law firm, Atlanta-based Barrett & Farahany showed how they […]
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Kaplan Hires Boost Litigation Boutique Roberta Kaplan, the Trump-beating, prominent Manhattan litigator, is strengthening her newly established litigation boutique, Kaplan Martin, by hiring former colleagues from her previous firm. The firm announced on Thursday that Christopher Le Coney and D. Brandon Trice have joined as partners, moving from their counsel roles at Kaplan Hecker &
Polsinelli has continued its rapid expansion with a raid on Holland & Knight taking 20 partners for the launch of its Philadelphia office in a major ‘partner poaching’ move. This marks Polsinelli’s third office launch since June, following recent expansions in Fort Worth, Texas and Park City, Utah. Polsinelli didn’t name the incoming Holland &
Tom Borman, LawFuel Tech Contributor The recent global IT outage caused by a security update from CrowdStrike has once again indicated the importance of cybersecurity measures for law firms that appeared to have been largely unaffected by the major outage. The outage, related to Microsoft software, disrupted operations at numerous law firms, affecting their ability
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Three UK law firms – Shoosmiths, Linklaters LLP, and Weightmans LLP – have reported top financial performance for the 2023/24 fiscal year, with Shoosmiths crossing the £200-million revenue threshold for the first time. Shoosmiths’ revenue grew by 6 percent to £206.7 million and the firm’s profits increased by 5 percent to £66 million as it
Shining A Light On New Rankings Success Factors Tom Borman, LawFuel Contributing Writer Writing recently about law firm rankings saw several inquiries from lawyers asking how the rankings and their criteria were changing. And changing they are. So identifying the shifts in law firm ranking criteria sees seven key changes that lawyers wanting to get
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Welcome to the Salaried Partner Australian law firm partnership structures are under pressure following high growth and intense competition for top legal talent. The result is a growing move towards salaried partnership arrangements as the pressure goes on traditional equity allocations. This follows trends in other jurisdictions, such as the ‘black box’ pay model that
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Boost Your Firm’s Rankings Now Tom Borman, Contributing writer Law firm rankings are big business and increasingly important for law firms seeking to boost not only law firm prestige, but also legal business. But with all the ranking systems around, which are the best and how exactly do they deploy their methodologies to work out
The Multi-Billion Dollar Musk Law Fee Battle Tom Borman, LawFuel Contributing Writer There have been plenty of arguments about legal fees, but in the case of Elon Musk it was always going to be different and – wow! – different it is with the Delaware Court now facing a question about the Tesla legal fee
Leading Law Firm Marketers Explain How To Escape the Law Marketing Echo Chamber Kevin Wheeler and George Beaton Together, we have more years of experience in law firm marketing than we would care to admit. Over the decades we have definitely seen the professionalism of this key business function improve, but why do we still
