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Boutique Bonus Season: The Summer Bonus Payments Arriving

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Boutique Firm Vartabedian Hester & Haynes Blazes Bonus Trail With Generous Summer Payouts While Biglaw firms continue their summer tradition of radio silence on bonuses, one ambitious boutique isn’t waiting around. Texas-based Vartabedian Hester & Haynes, a rising litigation boutique specializing in complex commercial disputes, has just announced a firm-wide bonus that’s turning heads. All […]

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Latest BigLaw Merger To Hit The Law Market on 1 August

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Here Comes McDermott Will & Schulte Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor In a deal that underscores Big Law’s relentless consolidation, McDermott Will & Emery (approximately 1,400 lawyers, ~$2.2 b 2024 revenue) and Schulte Roth & Zabel (~350 lawyers, ~$618 m) voted last month to merge effective August 1, 2025, creating a combined firm of around 1,750 attorneys and global

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Kiss-Cam Calamity: How to Wreck a Career with One Coldplay Chorus (and a Very Bad Seat Location)

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Coldplay Kiss-Cam Scandal: What Happens When HR Meets PR… and It’s All on Jumbotron “Fix You” wasn’t supposed to be the HR theme song of the summer—but here we are. Two senior executives at the software company Astronomer—CEO Andy Byron (married, now memorably ducking) and Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot (reportedly single, now definitely in

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Vault’s Top 150 Under 150: Small Firms, Big Pay, No Regrets

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Vault Boutique Law Firm Rankings Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Forget the old rulebook — leaving Biglaw no longer means leaving big money behind as Vault’s Top 150 small firm list shows. There was a time when jumping from a megafirm to a smaller outfit meant kissing goodbye to a chunk of your paycheck. Maybe

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How Whistleblower Protections Apply in Corporate Retaliation Cases

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Article Source: Keilty & Bonadio, Baltimore, MD Whistleblower protections are important provisions that protect public and private sector employees who expose wrongdoing in organizations throughout Baltimore and Maryland. The state has seen numerous high-profile cases where employees have faced retaliation for reporting corporate misconduct, making these protections crucial for maintaining ethical business practices. Baltimore’s diverse

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Why Simpson Thacher Alumni Taylor Wettach Is Running for Congress

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Simpson Thacher Fallout Sees Run From BigLaw to Ballot Box Taylor Wettach, a former associate in Simpson Thacher’s National Security Regulatory Practice, has launched a bid for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District after exiting BigLaw over a controversial pro‑Trump settlement. Wettach, who held a top‑secret clearance and advised both federal agencies and private sector clients on multibillion‑dollar

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Stanford Tops 2025 Times Law School Rankings: What Law Firms Need to Know

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What Times Law School Rankings Mean For Lawyers Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor The Times Law School rankings may have come out last October, but what should lawyers and recruiters know about what they mean. What do the rankings really matter to lawyers, recruiters, and law firms scanning the 2025 Times Higher Education? Stanford leads

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The Courtroom Cringe Moment When “Your Honor” Becomes “Honey”

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Lawyer Falls Into ‘Honey’ Trap In a moment now echoing through legal circles and social media alike, a Colorado Assistant Attorney General, addressing the Court of Appeals accidentally called Judge Elizabeth Harris… “honey.” Yes, really. The courtroom froze. The internet didn’t. In the Colorado Court of Appeals hearing for People v. Delgado, Assistant Attorney General

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How Nonequity Partners Are Reshaping Big Law – Thanks To Kirkland & Ellis

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Kirkland & Ellis flipped the script on law firm partnerships by building a massive nonequity partner tier, now over 1,000 stron, which has let Kirkland promote more lawyers, faster, than most competitors, turning what some once called a “marketing trick” into a powerhouse business mode

Recruiters now have Kirkland’s nonequity partners on speed dial. “They’re hot property,” the partner says. “Even if they’re not equity, getting a Kirkland ‘partner’ is a win for any recruiter or client.”

Criticism of Kirkland’s two-tier, salaried partner model has faded. Now, other firms want in. The move is seen as smart business, not just a trick. Kirkland’s success, and the Wall Street money being paid to some partners in such firms, has pushed other big firms

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