Partner Profits
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Biglaw
How To Keep Biglaw Partners Happy? Keep Them In The Dark When It Comes To Their Money...
The 'black box' awaits as Biglaw firms consider making the shift for partner compensation. -
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Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
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Biglaw
A Closer Look At The 2021 Am Law 200 Rankings
The biggest Biglaw behemoths did well in 2020, but what about the firms one tier down?
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Biglaw, Sponsored Content
A Deep Dive Into The 2021 Am Law 100 Rankings
Last year was a difficult year for so many industries but a shockingly good one for Biglaw, at least in terms of metrics like gross revenue, revenue per lawyer, and profits per partner. -
Biglaw, Sponsored Content
How Did Biglaw Firms Fare Financially In 2020?
Pretty, pretty well, in terms of both revenue and profit. -
Biglaw, Sponsored Content
Breaking Down The 2020 Am Law 100 Rankings
The biggest Biglaw firms, ranked by gross revenue, revenue per lawyer, and profits per partner. -
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Biglaw
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Partnership?
A 'partner' isn't always a partner -- and maybe that's okay. - Sponsored
Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
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Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 04.14.19
* “How Tough-on-Crime Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration.” My review of Emily Bazelon’s new book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (affiliate link). [New York Times Book Review]
* When it comes to prosecutors, as former prosecutor Joel Cohen explains, it’s all about discretion. [New York Law Journal]
* Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.) defends Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’s exercise of her prosecutorial discretion — and argues that Thomas Turco’s criticisms of Rollins are unfair. [Boston Globe]
* Another ex-prosecutor, Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro, is representing tennis star Naomi Osaka in the “repugnant” lawsuit filed against her by her former coach. [Tennis365]
* Former federal prosecutors, many of them now partners at Biglaw firms, represent more than half of the defense lawyers in Operation Varsity Blues, aka the college admissions scandal. [Big Law Business]
* High-stakes litigation is just one of many factors contributing to Biglaw’s robust profit margin these days — hovering around 40 percent, its highest value in almost 30 years, according to Madhav Srinivasan of Hunton Andrews Kurth. [Law.com]
* Ronald Collins interviews Joan Biskupic about her latest judicial biography, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts (affiliate link). [SCOTUSblog]
* And speaking of SCOTUS, Will Baude believes that the death penalty “is justifiable and constitutional” — but argues that the Court has not acquitted itself well in its recent handling of capital cases. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
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Biglaw, Politics
The $4 Million Man: Meet Trump's Patent & Trademark Pick
If confirmed, he'll be taking a gigantic pay cut. -
Biglaw
Why These Global 100 Numbers Should Scare The Bejeezus Out Of You
What do Dentons and Applebee's have in common? -
Biglaw, Money
The Global 100: Fractured Futures At The Richest Law Firms In The World (2017)
Uncertain times may be ahead of us given their financial performance. -
Biglaw, Partner Issues
A Step Backwards For Financial Transparency In Biglaw
A leader in transparency falls back into the pack.
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Biglaw, Politics
How Much Do Partners Make At Williams & Connolly?
Another Trump nominee lets us look in on firm finances. -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money, Partner Issues
Stats Of The Week: The Great Associate Pay Raise Of 2016
What story do these numbers tell? -
Biglaw, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Politics
King & Spalding Pays Christopher Wray $9.2 Million A Year
The FBI director nominee makes a lot more money than his partners. -
Biglaw, Partner Issues, Rankings
The 2017 Am Law 200: Keep Calm And Carry On
Reports of Biglaw's death are greatly exaggerated. -
Biglaw, Partner Profits
Stats Of The Week: NYC Rules Am Law Rankings
Further evidence that elite Wall Street firms are operating by different economic rules than the rest of the legal industry. -
Biglaw, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings
The 2017 Am Law 100: A Turning Point For Biglaw?
Revenue per lawyer was basically flat; also, there's a new #2 in the rankings. -
Biglaw, Partner Issues, Partner Profits
New York Biglaw Makes Waaaay More Money Than The Rest Of You
When the legal market struggles, these firms still surge.