The National Association for Law Placement's latest first-year associate salary survey showed little to no impact of pandemic austerity measures on young lawyer pay.

"Do I think Ponzi schemes will end? Of course not," said Akerman partner Michael I. Goldberg. "But he raised the awareness that they exist."

"You were absent from the courthouse and not otherwise working full time on a recurring basis," the Judicial Qualification Commission stated in formal charges.

Daniel Wilde, an attorney for Law On Call, which claims to be the first nonlawyer-owned law firm in the nation, says the entire country can benefit from the innovative business models coming out of Utah.

"We didn't want to bypass opportunities because we couldn't have lunch or dinner," one managing partner said.

Lawyers who crafted the $2 billion class action settlement with Bayer to resolve future claims over Monsanto's Roundup have fired back at a host of objectors, defending a settlement they say that "will save lives."

Office returns, vaccination policies and long-term effects of the pandemic on the law firm workplace.

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"I remind myself that you never regret working out, you only regret not motivating yourself to work out."

The Lugano Convention: Lawyers across London share their disappointment over a decision which could hinder UK court judgments being recognised in other jurisdictions.

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"Partners are under pressure to bring in as much money as they can, and that has led to more aggressive behavior in terms of fee collections and those kinds of disputes," said one litigator who represents law firms in fee collections disputes.

"There's lots of good reasons for having a no-nepotism rule, not least of which that you're creating opportunities for people that might not otherwise have it," one former law firm leader said.

A 1.4-point increase in the national average Multistate Bar Exam score this February suggests that pass rates will increase in many jurisdictions.

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The Greenberg Traurig leadership trip comes as law firms across the county are grappling with how to reconnect with lawyers and staff after a year of working remotely.

"Bizarrely, the fact that large law is still highly successful is still an impediment," Nicola Shaver, director of innovation and knowledge at Paul Hastings in New York, said. "It is still difficult to tell people to change the way they're doing things when it's working at bringing in an enormous amount of revenue every year."

The new signers include two firms with Georgia roots.

Federal Circuit Wasn't Chicken to Grant Equitable Intervening Right in Poultry Processing Equipment Case A dispute between the two titans in the poultry processing equipment market led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to construe the term "protection of investments" in 35 U.S.C. 252.