Fewer Equity Partners, Fatter Paychecks
As firms slow expansion at the top, remaining equity partners reap the financial rewards.
The Am Law 200: Biglaw’s Second Hundred Crushes The Competition In Almost Every Financial Metric (2025)
Things continue to look up for the firms in the Second Hundred.
Keeping Law School Accessible When Federal Loans Fall Short
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
This Biglaw Firm Will No Longer Publish Its Profits Per Equity Partner
The firm's leaders think the metric is a 'misleading' indicator of business performance.
The Am Law 200: Biglaw’s Second Hundred Blows The Competition Out Of The Water
Things continue to look up for the firms in the Second Hundred.
Biglaw Firms Shrinking Their Equity Partnership Ranks Are ‘Gaming’ The System
And it may not always be to their advantage.
Biglaw Partners’ Satisfaction With Their Pay ‘Remains Robust’
Only a tiny percentage of partners are 'very dissatisfied' with their pay.
What Even Is AI ‘Competence’? It Depends.
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
The $20 Million Biglaw Partner AKA ‘The Kirkland Effect’
Want your partners to stay? Then it's time to pay!
The Fastest Growing Profits Per Partner In All Of Biglaw
Impressive growth!
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Partnership?
A 'partner' isn't always a partner -- and maybe that's okay.
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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Partners At This Biglaw Firm Are REALLY Making It Rain
It's a torrential downpour of cash for partners at this firm.
Looks Like Partners At These Firms Need To Start Sharing The Wealth
Don't be greedy, share with your needy associates.
The Biglaw Firm With Soaring Profits Per Partner
That's quite the impressive jump!
The $4 Million Man: Meet Trump’s Patent & Trademark Pick
If confirmed, he'll be taking a gigantic pay cut.
Why These Global 100 Numbers Should Scare The Bejeezus Out Of You
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