Associate Bonus Watch: A Tale Of Two Litigation Powerhouses
One issue with working at a focused firm: your financial fortunes will fluctuate.
Adventures In Law Firm Holiday Party Invites
Have you ever seen law firm holiday party invitations that are this fabulous and fun?
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 $160K-Plus Club: Which Law Firms Pay the Biggest Starting Salaries?
Which law firms pay starting salaries that exceed $160,000? Let's make a list.
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: The Turman Show
LEWW is back, plus one more adorable kid and minus a lot of sleep. Prime wedding season is nearly upon us, but today our task is to get you caught up on some of the nuptial fabulosity that occurred in our absence. (And by the way, if you missed the NYT’s December feature on the […]
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.10
* Hans Bader of CEI is fine with the bar exam — congrats to everyone who just finished, by the way — but wants to ditch the requirement of graduating from law school. After all, “[e]ven students who seldom studied, and reputedly were on drugs, managed to graduate from my alma mater, Harvard Law School.” […]
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Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
The Best Midsized Lifeboats Law Firms
Have you fallen off the Biglaw bandwagon and can’t get up? Were you lucky enough to hang onto your Biglaw job and are just now realizing that the blessing was actually a horrible curse on your lifestyle? Well, then maybe you’re in the mood to downsize to a midsized law firm, but you just don’t […]