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Litigation Finance, Litigators, Sponsored Content
How To Build A Quality Litigation Finance Firm
When thinking about building a litigation finance company, it is important to attract the highest quality claims available. -
Money, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Entering The Race: How To Negotiate Salary With A Solo Practitioner
Here are three pieces of advice, from columnist Shannon Achimalbe -- but be prepared for your pay to be low, unfairly low. - 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, Money, Sponsored Content
Does Size Matter? Dissecting The New Am Law 100
What insights can be learned from the latest Am Law 100 rankings?
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Biglaw, Billable Hours, Money, Rankings, Venable
Stat Of The Week: The Biglaw Billables Champion
Which Biglaw firm boasts a lawyer who billed 71 hours a week last year? -
Money, Small Law Firms
Getting Paid In SmallLaw
What about asking clients for outstanding fees? It requires some tap dancing. -
Biglaw, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings
The 2015 Am Law 100: Revenues Rising, Profits Popping, And A New #1 Firm
Who's the new top firm by gross revenue, and what obscene new high did Wachtell Lipton profits hit last year? -
Bonuses, In-House Counsel, Money
An Actual, Anonymous Survey Of In-House Compensation
If you're an in-house lawyer, please take this survey, so we can share the interesting results with you. -
General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Money, Sponsored Content
3 Insights About In-House Counsel Compensation
What do in-house positions generally pay, which industries pay the most, and who are the highest-paid general counsels? - 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, Bonuses, Money
Biglaw Bonus Season Round-Up: An ATL Infographic
You know what they say: a picture is worth a Davis Polk bonus package. -
Biglaw, Conferences / Symposia, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Want To Understand Law Firms? Learn the RULES.
The most important lesson you can learn before working in a firm is how a firm makes its money. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.20.15
* Here’s a very important lesson for all of the lawyers reading this: thinking about work while you’re on the way to work doesn’t mean that you’re actually working. This novel argument failed miserably for a Biglaw partner trying to get out of a huge insurance claim. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Justice Scalia isn’t very fond of the media’s coverage of SCOTUS: “They don’t like conservatives on the court, or anywhere else for that matter. They do a lousy job. You can’t expect them to do a good job.” Wow, tell us how you really feel. [Arkansas Online]
* “Enough! Enough! Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job.” After months of watching his pick for attorney general wait around thanks to political gridlock, President Obama has finally had it with this sh*t. [New York Times]
* Good news, associates! If you leave your law firm job for a Supreme Court clerkship, you’ll likely still be able to receive that gigantic SCOTUS hiring bonus — to the tune of $300,000 plus! — if you return to the firm you left when it’s over. [National Law Journal]
* “Hard questions have to be asked at law schools whose modest reputations and forgiving admission standards do not ensure their graduates gainful employment.” High LSAT scores are down, bar failure is up, and law schools still say it’s not their fault. [Bloomberg]
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In-House Counsel, Money, Partner Issues, Sponsored Content
Who Makes More: Partners Or General Counsels?
Given your partner compensation, would you seriously consider a general counsel job? Maybe you should. -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money, Williams & Connolly
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Who Now Pays A Starting Salary Of $200,000?
This across-the-board, $20,000 pay raise is just another sign of a tightening market for top talent.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.16.15
* At least a dozen professors from UT Law have had their identities stolen, and they only found out about it after their tax returns were rejected. As it turns out, the data thief had already filed their returns for them. Law profs’ tax refund checks must be tasty. [American-Statesman]
* If you’ve been wondering what kind of salary it’d take to woo away the dean of one of the top law schools in the nation to become your university’s president, wonder no more. The answer is $660K per year. Way to go, Dean Schill! Play on, playa. [Register-Guard]
* If you thought the list of the legal profession’s luminaries was looking like a giant sausage party, then you should check out this new ranking of the “most accomplished female attorneys working in the legal profession today.” [National Law Journal]
* Biglaw, bigger egos? Law firm managing partners aren’t feeling as confident as they once were about economic and legal industry growth, but they’re totally jazzed about their own firms’ potential for revenue growth and the demand for their services. [Am Law Daily]
* Another law school makes big changes thanks to legal academia’s rocky road: Loyola Law in L.A. is planning a 25% enrollment cut and is taking $20 million from its university’s endowment to entice students to attend with fat scholarships. [Los Angeles Loyolan]
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Federal Government, Health Care / Medicine, Money, Tax Law
The Secret Taxes On The Young: Health Insurance And Student Loan Interest
On this Tax Day, columnist Shannon Achimalbe looks at two payments that are not called taxes but feel like and have the effect of a tax. -
Litigators, Money, Sponsored Content
Lake Whillans Is NOT The Iron Bank Of Braavos
With all the hype surrounding the first episode of this season’s Game of Thrones, we figured it was time to dispel the rumors: Lake Whillans is NOT the Iron Bank. -
Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits
Which Biglaw Firm Makes Partners Write Essays To Prove Why They Should Be Paid?
Partners, you better make sure you do your homework at this firm. -
Bonuses, In-House Counsel, Money
A Survey Of In-House Base Pay And Bonuses
In-house columnist Mark Herrmann would like to shed more light on this important topic -- but he needs your help. -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Gunderson Dettmer, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: Yet Another Firm Enhances Its Payouts
Which elite West Coast firm just upgraded its bonuses? -
Women's Issues
Whining Lawyer Highlights The Disrespect For Maternity Leave
That crybaby lawyer suing for benefits because a mean partner yelled at her overlooks an important point: her boss was totally right to yell at her.