On August 26, 2021, a Buchalter team led by Shareholder Joshua M. Robbins and Special Counsel Thomas Rickeman, won a complete defense verdict for client, Hotel California by the Sea, LLC, ending a five-week jury trial involving what began as over $10 million in claims of whistleblower retaliation. Hotel California by the Sea is an […]
Australia: State of the Legal Market Report by Thomson Reuters Institute “Law firms responded to market conditions with strategic approaches, and reimagining client experiences,” continued Rhodes. “Firms are taking the opportunity to serve clients better, which is helping to strengthen their relationships. The appetite for digital transformation has never been stronger, creating greater efficiency and
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LOS ANGELES – A disbarred personal-injury lawyer was found guilty by a federal jury today of 22 felonies for stealing the majority of a multimillion-dollar settlement that should have been paid to a car accident victim, as well as cheating on his federal income taxes. Philip James Layfield, a.k.a. “Philip Samuel Pesin,” 48, of Las
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Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith is to cut 66 jobs from its offices in the US and UK, which the firm says is part of its ‘connectivity initiative’ designed to modernize its business. The firm employs 1500 lawyers in 30 offices in the US, UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. The firm said that it expects 44
The rules relating to ownership of law firms have been changing dramatically in recent years, including the previously forbidden rule of having non-lawyer ownership of law firms, but it is apparently a step too far for US regulators and law firms who continue to tread carefully in such waters. For the United States law firms,
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A further development in the commercialization of law firms in the UK has occurred with the purchase of the regional UK law firm Fisher Jones Greenwood (FJG) by recently-formed, London-based equity firm Blixt Group, who are focused on growing the firm into a major, national firm. FJG has 23 partners and the firm is focused
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The booming legal market in London has driven pay rates up, but also meant those with the prized London law jobs are having to work up to 7 days a week for the major money being paid by the Big Law firms. The massive increase in pay rates that we have reported here and
Australian law firm proposes class action lawsuit over anti-vax order
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Law technology solutions abound – but how many are actually needed by a small- to medium-sized law firm and how many law firms are embracing new technologies? The development of new law technologies is one way that law firms can more powerfully and creatively move into new services and strengthen their ties to clients –
