Top lawyers’ hourly rates closing in on £2,000, new report shows New research has revealed that some partners at the world’s top law firms are being charged out to their clients at nearly £2,000 per hour. Associates in the highest-value practice areas aren’t far behind. According to the findings from LexisNexis, top partners can charge […]
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University of Michigan isn’t the only T14 getting harassed by FASORP. As if getting singled out by Supreme Court cases and Executive Orders wasn’t enough, Harvard recently had to deal with the spite group emailing their 1Ls as they prepare for the arduous write on process. While the Harvard Law School dean made a point […]
Last month, faced with an Executive Order — described by the right as designed to bankrupt the firm — Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp kissed the ring of Donald Trump. It was the first deal between a Biglaw firm and the Trump administration, and forever changed the relationship between the biggest and most powerful law firms and the creep […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to the 2025 Q1 report by the Wells Fargo’s Legal Specialty Group, how much is Biglaw demand — measured by logged lawyer hours — up in the first quarter of the year? Hint: Though demand is up, it is not hitting the […]
Good lawyers leave their mark on legal communities. Dragon Lawyers get asked to stop leaving their mark on each damned page of the complaint. In what has to be the best case for law schools to begin teaching a summer module on how to add watermarks to briefs, a Michigan based law firm decided to […]
Beat The Charge, Free Of Charge: Executive order tees up domesticated law firms to represent cops accused of unlawful use of force and other charges. Of Course It Involved Golf: Sullivan & Cromwell’s “negotiations” probably weren’t as formal as you’d think. Speaking Of Money Matters: How about a $300k starting salary for associates?! Perkins Coie […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning was sympathetic to the victims of a “wrong house” raid in 2017, with several justices expressing surprise at the federal government’s efforts to contend that the actions of FBI agents were shielded from liability because their acts were discretionary. But it was not clear whether that their skepticism of […]
Another day in our modern Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the argument in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools was consumed less by discussion of substantive legal questions and more by debate about whether and to what extent the parties may have sandbagged the justices by changing their positions during the course of briefing. A.J.T. involves […]
Law firms are juicy targets. Secrets, money, privileged communications, and tech clueless lawyers minding the gate. Passwords like “password123” aren’t cutting it. It’s a cybercriminal buffet. Artificial intelligence continues to elicit all the hype in legal tech, but cybersecurity should be the story of 2025. The United States has decided to actively antagonize global cyber […]
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