Prominent Firm Decides To Raise Associate Salaries During Bonus Season
Associates must be excited that their yearly billing quotas aren't going up with this raise.
Schenck Price Competes Smarter With Lexis+ With Protégé
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
Best Summer Associate Event Contest (2016): The Winner!
Congratulations to this worthy winner, which demolished the competition just like it trounces opposing counsel in the courtroom.
Best Summer Associate Event Contest (2016): The Finalists
Six great nominees; time to cast your vote!
Best Summer Associate Event Contest (2015): The Winner!
This wasn't exactly a close contest; the winner scored a runaway victory.
Best Summer Associate Event Contest (2015): The Finalists
Check out these super-fun events -- which is your favorite?
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
The Top 10 Firms Where Minorities Succeed In Making Partner
The legal profession has a long way to go when it comes to diversity and inclusion, according to columnist Renwei Chung, but some firms are doing a great job of positively distinguishing themselves in these areas.
The Best Law Firms For Diversity (2016)
Which firms fared well in three big surveys of diversity within Biglaw?
Top 100 Law Firms For Minority Attorneys
Law360 just released its comprehensive study of minorities in the law, collecting data from nearly 300 firms, and the findings are predictably grim.
Biglaw Career Advice From A Thomas Jefferson Law Grad
It's possible to get a good job if you graduate from an unranked law school. It'll just be extremely difficult.
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Morning Docket: 10.18.12
* Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest? We didn’t have a conflict of interest! Covington & Burling is appealing its disqualification from representing Minnesota in a suit against former client 3M. [Capital Business / Washington Post] * “If I sent my résumé through the firm, I wouldn’t get looked at.” Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear is hiring so many awesome associates that the firm’s managing partner doesn’t even know if he’d stand a chance. [National Law Journal] * Doug Arntsen, the ex-Crowell associate who stole $10.7M in client funds and spent it at strip clubs, was sentenced to four-to-12 years in prison. [New York Law Journal] * Music to Benula Bensam’s ears? In a case of dueling sentencing memos, prosecutors want Rajat Gupta to spend 10 years in prison, but his own lawyers want him to be sent to Rwanda. [DealBook / New York Times] * Donald Polden, the dean of Santa Clara Law, will be stepping down at the end of this academic year. Hope they’ll be able to find a new dean, because every “influential” school needs one. [San Jose Mercury News]