First The Good News: Susman Godfrey files lawsuit challenging the Trumpian Executive Order targeting the firm. Now The Bad: Trump is playing Darth Vader, upping the stakes of his deals with Biglaw. Folks Are Peace-ing Out At Willkie: The firm’s longest serving attorney and an associate quit over the firm’s capitulation to Donald Trump. U.S. […]
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Hamas lawyers must be struck off, says Robert Jenrick [The Telegraph] (£) Why are British lawyers acting for Hamas? [The Spectator] (£) Pro-Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’ [The Guardian] School lawyers write […]
Misled court A paralegal has been barred from working in the legal profession after fabricating an email to cover up a mistake that caused a client’s case to be struck out. Chaida Aboobakar was working as a personal injury paralegal at New Law Solicitors, a Cardiff-based firm, when she mistakenly included the wrong case number […]
Pretty much from the moment Susman Godfrey was targeted by Donald Trump with an Executive Order designed to extract a financial penalty for not swearing fealty to Trump, the firm vowed to fight — for both themselves and for the rule of law. And fight they have. Yesterday the firm became the fourth in Biglaw […]
Law firms, like any other type of business, need to manage economic fluctuations so that they are well-positioned to thrive in any economy. Biglaw firms and smaller shops may adopt different strategies in an economic downturn given the headcount and operations of various firms. By keeping a few strategies in mind, lawyers who manage smaller law firms […]
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Getty Images Ed note: This is the last in a series. Read the previous installment here. As we draw the curtains on our networking trilogy — from drafting the pre-conference game plan to navigating the social labyrinth during the event, and finally to mastering the post-conference follow-up — it’s clear that networking, much like an intricate […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which Biglaw firm is the only one to have a former US Attorney General and a former UK Attorney General as partners at the same time? Hint: The firm has over 800 attorneys worldwide at the firm. See the answer on the next […]
The Associates Have Spoken & The Pressure Is On: An overwhelming majority of the associates want the firm to stand their ground. Too Little, Too Late: A&O Shearman folded, along with several other cowards. Our Time’s “All Deliberate Speed” Ruling Was Met With Two Middle Fingers: The government is refusing to “operate on judicial timelines” […]
Biglaw firms keep folding under White House pressure, thinking that they’re just committing millions in pro bono payola to worthwhile veteran issues. Meanwhile, Donald Trump — with a characteristic lack of subtlety — publicly describes these deals as blank checks for free legal work on anything he dreams up — up to and including personal […]
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