Yes, Biglaw Firms Will Absolutely Take Your Money If You Don’t Put Your Timesheets In
No time entry? No money (or at least less money).
Another Biglaw Firm Raises Billing Requirements In The Wake Of The Pay Raise
This is becoming a trend, and it's not surprising.
The New Way Litigators Handle Depositions Applies AI Every Step Of The Way
Depositions by Filevine help with scheduling, tracking goals, and trial prep.
When Partners Ask Associates Not To Record Time . . .
What's a poor associate to do? Thoughts from Biglaw partner turned in-house counsel Mark Herrmann.
The Best Of Hours, The Worst Of Hours: ATL Survey Ratings
According to the ATL Insider Survey, which practice areas and law firms offer the best (and the worst) hours?
7 More Ways To Pass The Time While Working At A Law Firm
Seven more ways of staying (or at least looking) busy, while you put in your law-firm face time.
7 Ways To Kill Time While Working At A Law Firm
Seven recommended ways of staying (or at least looking) busy, while you put in your law-firm face time.
Most Law Firms’ AI Strategies Have a Big Blind Spot. Here’s How One Am Law 200 Firm is Solving It.
Most law firms, big and small, that have adopted AI are making the same mistake: they bought a tool for their lawyers and called it a strategy.
You Want Your Bonus? We Want Your Time Sheets.
As we all know from the law-and-economics reasoning that was taught to us in law school, people -- yes, this includes lawyers -- respond to incentives. At one leading law firm, bonus anxiety is being shrewdly harnessed in service of collections efforts. CHECK YOU TIME SHEETS....
Hughes Hubbard Is the Latest Firm to Crack the Time Keeping Whip
I find it funny that firms that want to skimp on bonuses also expect associates to make sure they are helping the overall health and performance of the firm. At some level, why should associates care if the firm is up to date on its collections? It’s not like that money is going to trickle […]
Akin Gump Partner Pens Email Fantasy About Firing Delinquent Time Keepers
Nothing says “Biglaw” quite like an old-fashioned partner threat. Biglaw partners, a self-important bunch if there ever was one, generally do little to mask their huge egos. But when those egos express themselves in the form of threats against underlings, well, that’s when you learn why people get paid $160,000 right out of school. You […]
Simpson Thacher Threatens to Withhold Salary For Delinquent Time Keepers
If you talk to law firm partners who are in charge of collecting fees, they’ll tell you that getting clients to pay has become a real hassle ever since the recession started. Clients are trying to make their books look as palatable as possible, and if that means avoiding or delaying payments to their lawyers, […]
What Even Is AI ‘Competence’? It Depends.
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.