A Discussion About Biglaw’s Present: My Turn (Part 2)
Professor Bill Henderson interviews Anonymous Partner. What traits should law firms look for in their leaders?
A Discussion About Biglaw’s Present: My Turn (Part 1)
Professor Bill Henderson interviews Anonymous Partner. Why did Anonymous Partner decide to go to law school? And what advice would he give his younger self if he could?
How Filevine Helps In-House Legal Teams Manage Every Matter With Confidence
AI powers tools for data intake, document management, and drafting contracts.
A Discussion About Biglaw’s Present: An Interview With Indiana Law’s Bill Henderson (Part 2)
What current Biglaw practice does Professor Bill Henderson, an expert on the world of large law firms, find most disturbing?
A Discussion About Biglaw’s Present: An Interview With Indiana Law’s Bill Henderson (Part 1)
Is the current Biglaw model unsustainable? Anonymous Partner interviews Professor Bill Henderson, an expert on the world of large law firms.
A Closer Look at Lateral Partner Hiring
How can law firms improve their lateral partner hiring processes?
Quote of the Day: The Law School Dream Is Dead
Joblessness, debt, and bitter rage: just some of the shiny, new things a law degree will get you in 2013.
Pursuing The Pro Bono Story: A Conversation With Alicia Aiken
This Pro Bono Week, get inspired to give back with PLI’s Pursuing Justice: The Pro Bono Files, a one-of-a-kind podcast hosted by Alicia Aiken.
The Downhill Road from 1L to 3L
How do 1Ls and 3Ls view law school? Quite differently, as it turns out.
The Brave New World of Entry-Level Recruiting
How is the entry-level legal job market looking? And what do law firms and law schools think of the current approach to on-campus interviewing?
Quote of the Day: And Then They Came for the Partners
Think that life for Biglaw partners is a bowl of cherries? Think again.
Quote of the Day: Mo’ Money, Less of Everything Else?
What causes a large, storied law firm to fail? Could part of the problem be too much money, but not enough history or shared values?
USCIS shift to electronic payments: What immigration firms need to know
As of October 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services requires electronic payments for filing fees. Learn key updates, exemptions, and how firms can prepare.
Are Graduates of Elite Law Schools ‘Too Good’ for Biglaw?
Are graduates of elite law schools "too good" for Biglaw? Interestingly enough, they tend not to stick around large law firms. Grads of many lower-ranked schools make partner at higher rates than grads of certain top law schools.
Does Hiring Smart People Hurt Law Firms?
Here’s an argument you don’t hear everyday: law firms who hire the smartest people are hurting their business. That’s the gist of the argument by Bill Henderson, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law who studies the legal profession (and whom we’ve quoted often in these pages). At least if we define “smart” […]
Can Stanford Become the #1 Law School? Outlook Not So Good.
Late last month, we posed a question: Can Stanford overtake Harvard and Yale and become the #1 law school? We consulted our Magic 8 Ball, which gave this answer: “Outlook Not So Good.” And it’s not just the Magic 8 Ball. Professor Bill Henderson, one of the leading academics studying the legal profession, constructed a […]
NYC to $200K? The American Lawyer Weighs In
The American Lawyer’s 2007 Associates Survey is now available, via Law.com. Good stuff! A summary of the survey’s key findings, by editor-in-chief Aric Press, appears here. The WSJ Law Blog collects additional highlights here. It seems that ATL readers and law firm consultants aren’t the only ones predicting pay raises in the reasonably near future. […]