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- How to Compensate Law Firm Managing Partners
- Sports Law Expert to Lead New Center at Thomas Jefferson Law School
- After 26-Year Recruiting Career, Michael Coleman Decides to Move On
- Linklaters Follows A&O With Salary Rate Freeze for Associates
- Partial Dismissal Granted in Bias Suit Against Foley & Lardner
- Email Spat Erupts Between Foley and GrayRobinson Over Pitch to Partners
- Up to 12 Chadbourne Lawyers Expected to Follow Energy Partners in Akin Gump Move
- Tips to Beat Summer Procrastination
- Am Law 100 Firms Flocking to Hong Kong
- Can Law Firm Partners Spare 20 Hours of Billables?
- Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm?
- Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm?
| How to Compensate Law Firm Managing Partners | Top |
| High-quality law firm leadership cannot as easily be replaced as retained. Therefore, a firm must be prepared to reward its managing partner for his or her success in as many different ways as success is measured by a particular law firm, notes consultant Joel A. Rose. | |
| Sports Law Expert to Lead New Center at Thomas Jefferson Law School | Top |
| San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law has selected Rodney Smith, president of Southern Virginia University, as director of its new Center for Sports Law and Policy. He says the center will be the first to marry the legal aspects of sports with the industry's administrative and policy decisions. | |
| After 26-Year Recruiting Career, Michael Coleman Decides to Move On | Top |
| In the 26 years since recruiter Michael Coleman left law practice to start his search firm, the changes to the profession have been "revolutionary," he says. As Coleman readies to retire from Coleman Nourian, he discusses the rise of the lateral market and lawyer dissatisfaction. | |
| Linklaters Follows A&O With Salary Rate Freeze for Associates | Top |
| London-based Linklaters has opted not to increase its associate pay rates for the 2011-2012 financial year. The announcement makes it the second Magic Circle practice to freeze its associate salaries for the year ahead, following Allen & Overy's announcement on Thursday. | |
| Partial Dismissal Granted in Bias Suit Against Foley & Lardner | Top |
| A Michigan federal judge has dismissed eight of nine counts in a discrimination and breach of contract lawsuit filed against Foley & Lardner by a white male founding partner of the firm's Detroit office. | |
| Email Spat Erupts Between Foley and GrayRobinson Over Pitch to Partners | Top |
| When Foley & Lardner pitched 20 GrayRobinson partners, GrayRobinson president Byrd "Biff" Marshall fired back with a sarcastic e-mail "mostly in fun." Foley's public affairs director's response? "Biff: we've never met but you seem to be an ass who is extremely fond of himself. All the best, Mike Harrell." | |
| Up to 12 Chadbourne Lawyers Expected to Follow Energy Partners in Akin Gump Move | Top |
| Up to 12 Chadbourne & Parke lawyers will likely follow renewable energy partners Edward Zaelke and Adam Umanoff's move this week, along with two other partners, to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's Los Angeles office. Zaelke and Umanoff will co-chair Akin's global project finance practice. | |
| Tips to Beat Summer Procrastination | Top |
| If the summer procrastination bug has invaded your law firm, consultant Neen James has some simple strategies to help you out. Among the tips: If you are procrastinating, don't beat yourself up over it, and dedicate just 15 minutes to the task you are avoiding to kick-start your productivity. | |
| Am Law 100 Firms Flocking to Hong Kong | Top |
| Forty-six of the law firms ranked in this year's Am Law 100 have an office in Hong Kong, making it the No. 1 destination for expansion in Asia by U.S. firms. As an overseas location for Am Law 100 firms, Hong Kong is second only to London, which hosts 75 of them. | |
| Can Law Firm Partners Spare 20 Hours of Billables? | Top |
| Funding for the Legal Services Corp. has been secured for this budgetary year, but it will certainly be targeted again. Aric Press, ALM's editor in chief, asks if it's time for law firm partners to provide more concerted aid to the LSC and other worthy programs -- in tithes equivalent to 20 billable hours per person. | |
| Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm? | Top |
| After 15 years at a litigation boutique, I need to move on. Do I go in-house or move to another firm? And any networking advice? | |
| Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm? | Top |
| I am a lawyer currently working for a Big 4 accounting firm, and I'd like to transition to a law firm and practice tax law. Is it true this is a difficult move? Any advice on making the transition easier? | |
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