This Biglaw Firm Is ‘Dangerous’ — And The Deal Flow Backs It Up
A boom in AI-related energy offerings has Latham expecting a record-setting year.
Law Firm Exploring New Way To Take In Money
Making room for nonlawyers in law firms.
Schenck Price Competes Smarter With Lexis+ With Protégé
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
See Ya Next Year, IPOs! Biglaw Partner Gives Insights On The ‘Challenged’ IPO Market
IPOs may be back next year in 2024, when things are 'more normal.'
2022 Was A Terrible Year For IPOs
That's quite the plummet.
The Talent War Is Slowing To A Halt In At Least One Biglaw Practice Area
Lawyers aren't quite as busy anymore in this once-booming field.
Genetic Testing Company 23andMe Going Public At $3.5 Billion Valuation, Focus On More Therapeutics
While personal genetic testing as entertainment slowed as a revenue source in recent years, 23andMe has doubled down on its therapeutic programs.
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.
Being Boring Is Hard
The legal industry won’t experience anything like WeWork’s $47B flameout, but that makes our problems more intractable.
Morning Docket: 06.21.19
* “In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity.” Children being detained at the border are in desperate need of legal assistance and humanitarian aid. [NBC News] * Disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore, a "polarizing [] Republican," has decided to launch yet another Senate bid after losing during his first go round. This time, even President Trump warned him against trying again. [New York Times] * Puff, puff, pass this vote: New York may not have been able to legalize marijuana, but lawmakers are trying to do the next best thing by decriminalizing it. Fines for “violations” will be no higher than $200 and last convictions can be expunged upon request. [New York Law Journal] * In case you missed it, Slack had its IPO yesterday, opening at $38.50 a share. Goodwin Procter certainly didn't miss it, because the firm is looking to earn $2.5 million for its work on the company's stock market debut. [Big Law Business] * Shaakirrah Sanders, a black female professor at Idaho Law, has filed suit against the school the university, and a former dean, alleging race and gender discrimination and retaliation. She is the only professor of color and woman of color who has earned tenure at the school. [Idaho Statesman]
WeWork Probably Won’t Be Taking Saudi Money When It Goes Public Because It’s Maybe Starting To Get How This Works
Adam Neumann wants you to know that he understands how this looks...and will maybe stop now that you're watching.
Palantir Will Not Go Public In 2019 Because It Probably Literally Can’t
Not that it's stopped other Silicon Valley darlings...
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WeWork Asking Investors To Help It Buy Real Estate That It Forgot To Buy And Already Made More Expensive By Paying Premium Rents
The more WeWork talks, the more we want WeWork to please stop talking.
Uber IPO Underwriter Morgan Stanley Was So Certain That It Overpriced The Uber IPO It Shorted Uber Shares Right Before The IPO
Sit down, we can -- kind of -- explain.
Uber IPO Underwhelming Everybody, And It’s The Best News We’ve Had In Weeks
The market is teaching Uber a very hard lesson about how dynamic pricing really works.
The Uber IPO Will Be Like Chernobyl For The IPO Market
This is going to be the granddaddy of all tech IPO disasters.
Axiom’s War On Biglaw
Axiom’s IPO application foreshadows problems for Biglaw.