Accounting / Accountants
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Accounting / Accountants, Sponsored Content
Pop Quiz: Is Your Firm’s Accounting Unwell?
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Accounting / Accountants, Sponsored Content
Are You Helping Or Hindering Your Firm’s Financial Performance?
Above the Law has teamed up with PwC to create a quiz that will test you on the strength of your bookkeeping practices — a need-to-know part of operating a law firm. Take the quick and fun quiz here! - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
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Accounting / Accountants, Sponsored Content
Bookkeeping For Lawyers: Are You Helping Or Hindering Your Firm's Financial Performance?
Above the Law has teamed up with PwC to create a quiz that will test you on the health of your firm's accounting. Are you on the right track?
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Accounting / Accountants, Sponsored Content
'I Was Told There Would Be No Math?' - An Accounting Quiz For Attorneys
Above the Law has teamed up with PwC to create a quiz that will test you on the basics of accounting. Do you have what it takes? -
Biglaw
Appreciating The Accountants
Finding a good accountant is as integral to running a successful law practice as picking the right banking relationship or malpractice insurance provider. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.15.19
* Donald Trump Jr. has reached an agreement for “limited” testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he’ll discuss no more than a handful of topics for no longer than two-to-four hours. But will he plead the Fifth? [New York Times]
* Just when you thought Georgia’s fetal heartbeat law was too extreme, Alabama shows up with a near total abortion ban like it’s some race to see which state can get Roe v. Wade overturned the quickest at the Supreme Court. [NBC News]
* Can President Trump actually can block his accountants from complying with a congressional subpoena? Based on the way Judge Amit Mehta skeptically grilled Trump’s lawyer during yesterday’s hearing, we’re not too sure things will go the president’s way. [National Law Journal]
* Claire Murray, a former partner at Kirkland & Ellis, has been appointed by AG Bill Barr as principal deputy associate AG, the Justice Department’s third in command. The Biglaw firm seems to be taking over Main Justice. Congratulations! [Big Law Business]
* In case you missed it, this global law firm is reportedly facing a “cash flow crunch” that’s causing it to struggle to pay its partners and think about cutting ties with “substantially underperforming partners.” [American Lawyer]
* Professor Ron Sullivan of Harvard Law, the soon-to-be former faculty dean of an undergraduate house at Harvard, has stepped down as a member of Harvey Weinstein’s criminal defense team, claiming that the case will “conflict with his teaching responsibilities.” [CNN]
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Securities Law, Sponsored Content
Educating Associates In Finance And Accounting (And Offering Expert Witnesses Too)
Are you an associate seeking to improve your knowledge of finance and accounting, or a partner looking to educate your associates about these subjects? Train up with this expert boot camp. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.08.19
* Earlier this week, Justice Samuel Alito blocked a Louisiana abortion law, and now a divided Supreme Court has done the same, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining with the Court’s liberals to protect women’s right to choose without undue burdens. Justice Brett Kavanaugh penned the dissent — so much for “precedent on precedent.” [USA Today]
* After some back and forth over the threat of a subpoena, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker has agreed to testify publicly on the Mueller probe before the House Judiciary Committee bright and early tomorrow morning. [Washington Post]
* “There’s no doubt that the talent wars in tax have definitely heated up.” As it turns out, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is really living up to its name in that it’s creating a lot of new jobs — for tax lawyers and accountants, that is. [Wall Street Journal]
* “I always thought of him as a good lawyer. I’m not so sure I think the same thing about him today.” Now that he’s serving as Trump’s counsel, New York lawyers simply “don’t understand” who the new and improved(?) Rudy Giuliani is. [Law.com]
* Students at Harvard Law really want the school to continue its support of a pilot federal clerk hiring program that prevents judges from offering clerkships until applicants have completed their second year of school. [Harvard Crimson]
* Lawyers representing Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic student who went viral after his run-in with a Native American elder during a D.C. protest, have sent an evidence-preservation letter to CNN prior to suing for defamation. [Daily Report]
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Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
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Small Law Firms, Sponsored Content
Mastering Money Matters: Thomson Reuters Integrates Seamless Accounting Into Its Suite Of Firm Central Tools
Running a small law firm requires more than just superior legal skills. -
Biglaw
Twilight Of The Law Firms: The Big 4 Are Poised To Conquer The Legal Landscape
The existential threat to law firms may not be technology after all. -
Accounting / Accountants, Biglaw
King Kong Is Coming To Crush Your Practice With A Calculator
'Big Four' accounting behemoths are opening law firms. Biglaw should be scared. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.14.17
* So now we’re going to save DACA? Honestly, watching a White House with no coherent vision is exhausting. [Los Angeles Times]
* Trump’s FEC nominee raises eyebrows because his Twitter feed includes linking to articles explaining that “Protestantism is poison.” That’s an unexpected wrinkle in 2017, but then again… nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! [National Law Journal]
* Do the Big 4 accounting firms pose a threat to Biglaw? Um, yes! [Am Law Daily]
* Squire Patton Boggs isn’t entitled to squirepattonboggs.net according to an international arbitration panel. Put aside the merits of this decision and spend a few minutes cruising squirepattonboggs.net. It’s kind of hilarious. [Asian Lawyer]
* A new online program promises to help women get out of Biglaw. [Law.com]
* Yesterday, jurors heard that employees of payday lender AMG Services were fed weather reports so they could make small talk without revealing that they weren’t really on the tribal lands that offered them legal cover. You’ve got to appreciate how thorough they were. [Law360]
* Attorney sentenced for orchestrating a scheme that swindled NFL players. [Chicago Tribune]
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In-House Counsel, Litigation Finance, Litigators
The Crazy Reason Even Rich Corporations Consider Litigation Finance
This makes no sense economically, as columnist Mark Herrmann explains.
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Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
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Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
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Accounting / Accountants, Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Binders And The Retail Customer
It's tax time. What can lawyers learn from accountants about business development and client service? -
Accounting / Accountants, Biglaw
Stats Of The Week: Am Law 200 v. Big Four
Among the possible impending disruptors analyzed by Bruce MacEwen's Tomorrowland include the Big Four accounting firms grabbing market share from Biglaw. -
Accounting / Accountants
Oscar Mishap: When Your Accounting Firm Messes Up
Always blame the accountants. -
Boutique Law Firms, Money, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Running The Numbers
A big difference between Biglaw and boutiques: the level of personal involvement by partners in financial matters. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Litigators
9 Fundamentals For A New In-House Litigator (Or, Outside Litigators’ Blind Spots)
What does a litigator need to know when she moves from a law firm to an in-house position? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.23.16
* Bar exam-prep companies seem to be involved in a never-ending war with each other, and shots have been fired in the latest battle. BARBRI has been sued by LLM Bar Exam in a federal antitrust action, and several law schools have been caught in the fray. We’ll have more on this later today. [WSJ Law Blog]
* New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his legal team have until today to file an appeal of the Second Circuit’s decision in the Deflategate case. According to an attorney who once served as outside counsel to the NFL, Brady’s chances of success are “near zero” if he decides to pursue this Hail Mary. [Big Law Business]
* OOOOk-lahoma, where the crazy comes sweepin’ down the plain: Oklahoma’s state legislature wants to impeach President Barack Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch over the administration’s guidance on transgender bathroom accommodations. The Sooner State’s actions are “highly symbolic,” but they’re likely “doomed.” [TIME]
* Did he wear an ascot and a smoking jacket while he was deposed? Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner testified at a deposition in a case filed by a woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby at the Playboy Mansion while she was a minor. Thanks to a gag order, no details on Hef’s deposition are available at this time. [Reuters]
* Sorry, but you still can’t deduct the cost of your law school tuition and fees on your taxes, even if you’re an accountant/tax preparer who only enrolled to get a leg up on your tax skills and never intended to practice law, but especially if you later start a law firm with a family member. The Tax Court frowns upon things like this. [Accounting Today]
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Accounting / Accountants, Canada
The View From Up North: The Accountants Are Messing With The Lawyers Again
The Canadian arm of accounting giant Deloitte recently purchased a law firm. What’s that old adage? If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em…