Willkie Farr & Gallagher

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What will the controlling bonus scale be now that Davis Polk has beaten the market?

Which Biglaw firm billed for thinking up and registering creative domain names like F*ckBloomberg.nyc?

Why would a high-profile lateral leave his new firm so quickly and with such little notice?

Which law firms issued offers to all of their summer associates?

How did Biglaw partners have to humiliate themselves in order to win a lucrative engagement?

What do defenders (and critics) of Kirkland & Ellis have to say about the firm?

Is the firm experiencing an unusual number of partner departures, and if so, why?

It's the Friday afternooon bonus news dump! What's the latest?

The most underrated practice groups in Biglaw, according to the ATL readership.

In the aftermath of Dewey, where have the pieces of this former empire landed?

An associate left her Biglaw job to launch a lingerie business aimed at helping women like herself: big-busted but not plus-size women who have a hard time buying bras.

Scratch a lawyer and you'll find an aspiring writer beneath the surface. Trying to make the jump from practicing law to a full-time writing career? Here's a case study.

Meet a Biglaw and in-house alum who's now a hugely successful, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedian.

* Now that Barack Obama has secured his seat as a two-term president, in-house counsel in the financial sector can kiss their dreams of Dodd-Frank being repealed goodbye. Here are some issues to think about in light of its new footing. [Corporate Counsel]

* “We’re in the early innings of adjusting what value means.” And these days, it looks like “value” is synonymous with “making less money.” Given the results of this third quarter analysis, it’s quite clear that flat is still the new up for Biglaw. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Blow my whistle, baby? A DLA Piper partner filed a $4M suit against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on claims he was maliciously prosecuted as revenge for whistleblowing. [Daily Business Review]

* After being arrested on domestic violence charges, it seems that Steven Guynn of King & Spalding has left the firm. He doesn’t need to sweat his unemployment, because his house is for sale for $3.3M. [Am Law Daily]

* From Biglaw to Midlaw: Morrison Cohen, a midsize firm, managed to poach a partner from Willkie Farr. But how? Apparently this guy was no longer interested in billing “$900-plus” per hour. [New York Law Journal]

* Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will be present at Jared Lee Loughner’s sentencing hearing today, though it is unknown if she herself will speak. His expected sentence is life without parole. [ABC News]

Which firms are making job offers to 100 percent of their summer associates? A whole lot of them....

How can women close the gender gap in equity partnerships at Biglaw firms?

Dewey is creating a "chairman's office" of five co-equal members. Yeah, that will work....

As we recently mentioned, our view is “better late than never” when it comes to bonus news. With this in mind, we are pleased to bring you the bonus announcement of Willkie Farr — which came out in December. Given Willkie Farr’s status as a top New York law firm, you can probably guess what […]

Willkie Farr is getting raided. But it's not an entirely bad thing. Instead of losing talent to a rival law firm, Willkie is losing talent to a top client. Bloomberg LP has decided to beef up its in-house presence, and it's doing it with a boatload of Willkie attorneys. Is this a good thing for Willkie? The firm will remain Bloomberg's outside counsel, but there could be much less work coming from the client....