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Jackson Lewis announced that beginning in 2015, it will no longer evaluate its associates performance using billable hours as a metric. This also means that associate bonuses will not be awarded on billable hours. Before…
Law firms have been scrambling to collect payment before the end of the year - a sensitive task if it is to be carried out effectively while maintaining goodwill with clients. Most US law firms link partner…
Patton Boggs is set to change its partner compensation formula, subject to a vote by the partnership in September. The mooted changes include a proposal to reward long-time partners for bringing in business long…
New Zealand employment law firm Swarbrick Beck Mackinnon has joined the international employment law alliance L&E Global, joining seven other firms from Europe and the United States. The alliance was formed to provide…
Jackson Lewis has hired the high profile sports agent Gregg Clifton to join the firm’s sports industry practice in Phoenix. Lewis will advise professional, minor league, and college teams. "We want to become the…
The First Annual Big Law Webbies gave awards for the best and worst in Big Law websites. No prizes were given, but winners have the satisfaction of knowing that their innovations or online blunders have been noticed.…
The recent trend of firms taking on recent law graduates to work for free may meet with legal challenge, as practitioners advise that such arrangements may be illegal. “There are very few circumstances under which…