The 2025 Outside Counsel Rankings: Top Law Firms By Industry
A look at the go-to firms for clients in different markets.
Jones Day Continues To Corner The Market On Supreme Court Clerks, With $450K+ Signing Bonuses Up For Grabs
Yowza! That's a lot of money!
How Filevine’s New DraftAI Cuts Out Hours Of Writing Work
Now it transforms your document creation with natural language prompts.
Discrimination Lawsuit Against Jones Day Is Heading To Trial!
The firm's parental leave policy is under a microscope.
Jones Day Tries To Be ‘Hip’ With Kamala Meme In Its Supreme Court Filing… For More Pollution
Look which firm tried to get cute in its filings!
Biglaw Firm’s Got A Case That’s A Dilly Of A Pickle
There are allegations Whole Foods stole a pickle recipe.
GC Writes The Legal Equivalent Of Maximum Side-Eye In Response To Latest Lawyer For Coach Bob Huggins
Bob Huggins is trying to pull a George Costanza and the GC isn't having it.
Morning Docket: 07.11.23
* This is a shocker, but law firms aren't all that great at business. [Law.com] * Jones Day tried to pile the risk of sanctions atop a summary judgment motion that hasn't even been decided yet. The judge declined to indulge this lunacy. [Reuters] * Steve Bannon ordered to pay his bills. [CNBC] * Northwestern fired its football coach after the campus paper uncovered a string of hazing abuses. He's hired Winston & Strawn. [The Spun] * Proposing a ChatGPT tax to cover the cost of AI mistakes. Some form of mandatory liability insurance is probably more efficient, but yeah. [Bloomberg Law News] * Firms need to get a jump on recruiting clerks, but "mid-trial" is too much of a jump. [Law360]
Mergers And Office Openings: UK Firms Seek Growth In The US
UK 'Magic Circle' law firms are increasingly looking to the US for growth, as evidenced by the proposed merger of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling and the expansion of Clifford Chance into Houston.
Infamy And The Billable Hour
Clarence Thomas is getting a statue... allow your imagination to run wild.
Jones Day Took Home Over $100 Million Thanks To A Controversial Bankruptcy Tactic
The move has been very profitable for the Biglaw firm.
4 Ways Your Firm Can Build Economic Resilience
It’s the key to long-term success in an uncertain business climate.
Jones Day Not Representing Trump 2024 Campaign, Having Made America Great Enough On January 6
Change of heart... or just changing horses.
Morning Docket: 01.31.23
* Trump sues Bob Woodward claiming copyright on all the stuff he told Woodward during interviews Trump granted for the purpose of letting Woodward write a book. This is not going in the magical "Trump keeps winning cases" bucket his lawyer talks about. [Courthouse News Service] * Johnson & Johnson tried the "Monopoly Man turns out his pockets" routine and failed. [Law360] * Hey Siri, explain labor law. [MacRumors] * Speaking of labor law, a look at the upcoming Supreme Court labor showdown from the perspective of the service workers are preparing. [Eater] * Jones Day facing sanctions request citing harassment as the motivation for the earlier sanctions request Jones Day made against former associates in discrimination case. You may remember this one as the case that brought attention to Jones Day's... questionable photoshop decisions. [Reuters] * The pandemic may have broken lawyers. I mean, lawyers were always broken, but it broke them in a new way. [American Lawyer]
Trump Solicitor General Wants All The Jones Day Associates Back In The Office (Jokingly, But Also… Not Jokingly?)
Those times when maybe there's a little too much truth behind the joke.
Biglaw Firm Seeks Its Pound Of Bar Prep Flesh
It's all about optics.
Cheapskates At Jones Day Bill Former Associate For Bar Prep
Just because you CAN bill someone doesn't mean you SHOULD.