Law firms have a lot of room to increase leverage, despite clients pushing back against the use of more junior lawyers, reports ALM Intelligence Analyst, Nicholas Bruch from The American Lawyer. Bruch notes that real-world pyramid structures will never be perfect, nor will work cascade down them smoothly. However, he adds it’s hard to escape the […]
Managing partner of Akerman’s Chicago office, Scott Meyers, sat down with Crain’s to discuss the firm’s ...
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The frenzy of mergers between IP boutiques and national full-service firms shows no signs of abatement, The American Lawyer reports....
Partner moves were at their highest count yet in 2015, the “strongest year since 2009 for lateral partner moves at big law fir...
Intellectual property boutique Brinks, Gilson, & Leone lost four litigation partners to Midwest-based Barnes & Thornburg las...
Who do the Fortune 500 corporations turn to when they need intellectual property litigators? According to a recent survey by T...
The world’s largest law firms are still feeling the heat from their stagnated approaches, as discussed in last week’s po...