Latham
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Biglaw
No. 2 Biglaw Firm In America Announces New Salary Scale For Associates
More money for hardworking associates is something that everyone can get behind. Congrats! -
Biglaw
No. 2 Biglaw Firm In America Finally Announces Market-Beating Bonuses
That's a lot of money! (But it was even more money last year.) - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Biglaw
All The Billion-Dollar Biglaw Firms: A Look At The Am Law 100
See which firms came out on top this year!
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Biglaw
Latham Finally Announces Its Bonuses, With Median Bonuses That Beat The Market
Waiting to get a bonus doesn't seem so bad when the firm is dumping money on associates. -
Biglaw
Latham's Take On New Salaries Includes A Boost For Senior Associates
Welcome to this summer's salary games! -
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Biglaw, Courts
Judicial Notice: Vernon Jordan, RIP
Plus other notable legal news from the week that was. - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Biglaw
Latham Bonuses Are Out And The Median Bonuses Beat The Market
With big bonus numbers like this, waiting isn't so bad! -
Biglaw
Latham Just Shocked Us All With Fall Bonuses!
Plus they announced a charitable giving program. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Poster Child For 2009 Layoffs Still Plans To Hold Summer Associate Program
COVID-19 won't be as catastrophic for the firm as the Great Recession. -
Biglaw
Latham Joins The Market For Associate Compensation -- Is This A Good Time To Ask If Staff Will Get The Same Love?
While we celebrate associate raises, perhaps it's time to think about all the other employees that make a Biglaw firm run. -
Law Schools
Stop Blaming The Pipeline For The Lack Of Diversity In The Legal Profession And Start Investing In It
Without significant changes, diversity in the legal industry will remain on life support.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Biglaw, Women's Issues
Biglaw Firm Makes Life Easier For Working Mothers
This is the second firm to offer such a revolutionary perk. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.02.17
* Remember when Trump recaptured the news cycle from the string of blunders and Russian scandals that rocked his first month? That seems like just yesterday…. [Washington Post]
* What happens to lawyers after they
publicly demean themselvesappear on The Bachelor? [The Ringer]* After a massive scandal, Wells Fargo is slashing executive pay in the name of accountability. Well, by “slashing,” they mean “the people who failed to pick up the fraud will still make millions,” but it’s the tokenistic thought that counts. [Corporate Counsel]
* JP Morgan replaced 360,000 hours of annual legal work with a robot that does the work in seconds. That sounds impressive, but when you control for Biglaw hour padding the software really replaced about 20 minutes of work. [Bloomberg Markets]
* Yahoo’s GC resigned over their cybersecurity kerfuffle. Most Americans greet the news by wondering, “wait, Yahoo is still around?” [NY Times]
* Salary increases may be nice, but it just intensifies senior skepticism over what young associates really bring to the table. [Law360]
* Gibson Dunn building its Houston office on with Latham laterals. [Texas Lawyer]
* Even with revenue down, Bryan Cave manages to get PPP up. [Am Law Daily]
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Biglaw, Career Alternatives
Biglaw Associate Who Moonlights As Opera Singer To Perform At Carnegie Hall
Wow! If you'd like to support a Biglaw attorney who managed to dream the impossible dream, tickets are available here. -
Biglaw, Law Schools
The Best (And Worst) New York Law Schools For Biglaw Jobs
Which schools open the most Biglaw doors? -
Biglaw, Women's Issues
Biglaw Firm Offers Revolutionary Program For Working Mothers
This program is the the first of its kind among all Biglaw firms. Wow! -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money
Earth's Highest-Grossing Law Firm Increases Associate Salaries
Congratulations to associates on this firm's planet-wide success! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.08.16
* Professors at George Mason are outraged that administrators agreed to rename the law school after the late Justice Antonin Scalia without any input from the people who work or study there — his opinions don’t “reflect the values of our campus community.” They’re circulating a petition to denounce the name change, but thus far, none of its signatories are law professors. [NBC News]
* “I would appreciate if we could keep things that are very serious here appropriately viewed that way.” 50 Cent got yelled at by his bankruptcy judge because he brought his cellphone into the courthouse, took a picture of himself with a stack of fake cash, and posted it on Instagram. A motion to dismiss this wanksta is needed. [WSJ Law Blog]
* SCOTUS will hear oral arguments on the appeal of securities fraud case Salman v. United States next term, and Eugene Ingoglia of Morvillo L.L.P. hopes the justices will provide some greater detail as to “what counts as a personal benefit.” Let’s just hope that they don’t make insider trading’s road any rockier. [DealBook / New York Times]
* “The district court’s ruling errs in so many respects that it is hard to know where to begin.” You know that when an appellate holding begins with the prior statement, the trial judge is going to be in for a doozy of a benchslap. We’ll have more on the First Circuit slapping around Judge Juan Pérez-Giménez (D.P.R.) later today. [BuzzFeed]
* Jamie Wine, who was recently appointed as the chair of Latham’s global litigation and trial department, says even though L&W already has 610 litigators, she’s looking to hire more of them in the firm’s New York and London offices. If you think you want to lateral in, you should know you may be meeting with up to 50 partners. [Big Law Business]
* Hiring for law school summer associates may be on the rise, but you shouldn’t assume this means you’ll automatically be able to land a job at a prestigious law firm. These firms tend to “put a high value on law school pedigree and grades,” so if you happen to attend a lesser school, you’ll need to be ranked very highly. [U.S. News & World Report]