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Kramon & Graham boosts senior administrative team with new appointments

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Powered by LawFuel – Baltimore, MD (September 16, 2020) — Kramon & Graham, a leading law firm providing litigation, real estate, and transactional services, has made three new appointments, strengthening the firm’s senior administrative management. Kimberly Park has been promoted to Director of Finance and Operations. With more than 20 years of experience in law firm […]

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Buchalter Expands Its Tax and Estate Planning Practices with the Addition of Two New Shareholders in Los Angeles and San Diego

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Powered by LawFuel – Buchalter is pleased to announce the welcome additions of Joseph K. Fletcher III and Laura Lamb Nichols to its Tax & Estate Planning and Corporate Law Practice Groups. Based in Buchalter’s Los Angeles office, Fletcher has over 25 years of tax law experience. His international practice includes matters involving the taxation

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3 Strategies Lawyers Are Using Successfully to Prosper With Remote Working Conditions

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Jen Dezso* Remote working has proven to be largely a success — at least from the perspective of lawyer wellbeing. The impact of remote working on lawyer wellbeing explains why nearly 80 per cent of stand-out lawyers say they want the ability to work from home at least one day a week even after the

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Big Law Belt Tightening Hits Both Younger & Older Lawyers as The Pandemic Bites Law Firms

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In the new era of COVID-invoked recession law firms are developing new strategies to cope with a downturn in work and revenues. Beyond furloughs, pay cuts and layoffs (disclosed or undisclosed), the firms are preparing for their own lockdowns in terms of staffing at both incoming and outgoing lawyer levels. Ropes & Gray have announced

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Prestigious UK Law Firm Investigated Over Money Laundering Issues

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Mischcon de Reya is one of the more prestigious law firms in the UK, gaining prominence for its 1995 representation of Princess Diana in her divorce from Prince Charles. However more recently it has been at the centre of a complex investigation by anti-money laundering investigators. The Guardian has reported that solicitors from the Solicitors

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What Makes A Great Managing Partner in a Law Firm?*

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*According to a leading legal journalist who has gossiped and drunk with many Drinking with managing partners can be a challenging pursuit, even for a legal editor like Alex Novarese of Legal Business. But it does help provide some interesting and perhaps more honest appraisal of where the legal industry is going after the upheavals

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How Will The Impending Insolvency Crisis Affect the Legal Profession?

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The impending insolvency crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic raises key questions for company directors and lawyers – such as what choices directors should make in the ‘insolvency environment’. A seminar on the insolvency law landscape and its effect upon the legal profession is the subject of a forthcoming webinar coming in the

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Feedback Form: 2021 Power Law List – Who Are The ‘Power Lawyers?’

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Let us know who you think should be on the 2021 Power List LawFuel uses a range of lawyers in private and public practice to assess the significant ‘power’ players on the New Zealand legal scene at present. We list our annual 50 ‘Most Powerful’ and also welcome feedback from our subscribers and others able

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Leading Lawyer Joins the Bar

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Jeremy Johnson has joined the Bar, leaving Wynn Williams the firm he joined in 2008. As signaled in our article on the new ‘Heavy Hitters’ that Jeremy Johnson was about to join the bar, noting his increasing work in complex disputes and litigation. He joins Bankside Chambers, who operate from Auckland and Christchurch. See: The

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The ‘Eat What You Kill’ Mindset Means More Law Partners Taking Work From Juniors To Beat Billing Targets

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Partners at US law firms are taking a greater share of the work from junior colleagues during the pandemic, research suggests, as solicitors adopt an ‘eat-what-you-kill’ mindset. Thomson Reuters’ ‘peer monitor index’ – which evaluates the performance of the largest US law firms based on demand, productivity, rates, direct expenses and overheads – found that the

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