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Law Firms Are Focusing on Growth in the United States, Study Finds

The American Lawyer reports that after years of globalization, some firms are pulling back to focus on building a stronger platform in the world’s most lucrative legal market. According to the article, the United States remains the world’s largest, strongest and most lucrative legal market. A recent study by U.K.-based market research company Acritas found that U.S. companies […]

Law Firms Are Focusing on Growth in the United States, Study Finds
18 Jul Women in Big Law: Reaching Gender Parity
Women in Big Law: Reaching Gender Parity

Law.com reported that only 34% of lawyers in large firms today are women. That statistic has faced less than a 1% increase over the ...

01 Jul Biglaw Increases Bring Opportunity for Midsize and Smaller Firms
Biglaw Increases Bring Opportunity for Midsize ...

The announcement of the $2,000 per hour lawyer and the first-year associate starting salaries rising to $180,000 has stirred up a la...

24 Jun Highlights from the 2016 Am Law 200
Highlights from the 2016 Am Law 200

In conjunction with the Am Law 100 results, the American Lawyer released their annual Am Law Second Hundred report, which includes d...

23 May Highlights from the 2016 Am Law 100
Highlights from the 2016 Am Law 100

The American Lawyer just released the results of the most recent Am Law 100, their annual financial report of the top 100 U.S. ...

18 May Profits Unsurprisingly Down at Colossal Biglaw Firm, Reports AmLaw
Profits Unsurprisingly Down at Colossal Biglaw ...

Mega-firm Reed Smith had a rough year in 2015, The American Lawyer reports–a year that perhaps led to the highly publicized 45...

12 May Law360’s Top U.S. Firms for Women
Law360’s Top U.S. Firms for Women

Law360 recently released their annual Glass Ceiling report, ranking ten firms above their peers based on the percentage of...

27 Apr Astor President Bill Sugarman Quoted in Law360, Discussing the Midwest Legal Market
Astor President Bill Sugarman Quoted in Law360,...

Astor Professional Search president Bill Sugarman quoted in Law360, discussing the Midwest legal market: http://www.law360.com/...

22 Apr No More Summer Associates for Kenyon & Kenyon?
No More Summer Associates for Kenyon & Ken...

Intellectual property firm Kenyon & Kenyon neither confirmed nor denied rumors that they will be canceling their summer associat...

15 Apr Advancement of Minorities in Biglaw Slows to a Crawl
Advancement of Minorities in Biglaw Slows to a ...

In a profession “less diverse than doctors or engineers [who are] 88 percent white,” says Danielle Holley-Walker, dean o...

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