A battle has developed on either side of the Atlantic over pay for talented lawyers, with some American law firms paying high dollars to London lawyers – in US dollars as well. Newly qualified lawyers in Britain working for US law firms can now earn up to US$180,000 (£137,400) the FT reports. >> Check LawFuel’s Law […]
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Is legal work too complex to be performed by machines? Should we fear the introduction of the ‘robot lawyer’? The nature of the law and the way legal services are delivered is changing, hastened of course by the Internet. Sites like LegalZoom are perhaps one of the best known legal brands in the United States
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Law firm branding is big business, but it can also be fraught with difficulty and potential disaster. There are various issues that can arise if law firm branding is not handled properly. So a kind of case study of how to do it properly was displayed by Ross Fishman of Fishman Marketing who launched five litigation
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Hacking into Big Law names like Cravaths, Weil Gotshal and others has raised the stakes in the cyber security threat level for law firms generally. Investigators are determining whether confidential information has been stolen from the hacking of the firms, who represent some of the biggest corporations in the world. If data has been stolen
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William Henderson* My previous post excerpted the introduction “How to Solve the Legal Profession’s Diversity Problem.” The article suggests that our diversity challenges are rooted in a systems problem. First, our systems for selecting and developing lawyers is seldom grounded in science. Second, the functioning of these systems are seldom viewed as critical to organizational
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Will class action lawsuit specialists Slater + Gordon face their own lawsuit, shortly? In an ironic twist of fate if ever there was one, the world’s first publicly listed law firm is potentially facing a class action lawsuit following the financial hits the share price for the firm has taken in recent times. Slater +
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The oil price collapse has left energy law firm Burleson LLP, based in Houston, with the decision to shutter its entire operation. And therein lie some lessons for many law firms. The firm will close all five offices by the end of this year its managing partner, Richard Burleson said. Burleson’s was a highly successful
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Dentons is pleased to announce the launch of an office in Milan—its first in Italy—with the hire of 21 lawyers, including seven partners, led by Managing Partner Federico Sutti. Sutti, who is rated by both Chambers and The Legal 500 as one of Italy’s most reputable lawyers, was formerly DLA Piper’s Managing Director for Europe
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Cheeky London law blog Legal Cheek has released a list of The City’s 25 sexiest solicitors. Now we’re not ones here at LawFuel to endulge in such tabloid tittle-tattle (damn, why didn’t we think of that!), but we can show who they are for those seeking their fortunes and prospective partners in The City. The
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They may seem like they’re high-powered, no-nonsense professionals with the world at their feet, but at the end of the day, lawyers are human beings too. Just like all of us, they experience their share of bad days and sleepless nights as well. It’s no secret that being a lawyer is one of the
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