Top-Paid Partner at Freshfields Made About $5.27M Last Year, Filing Shows

Despite a dip in average profit per equity partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the firm’s top-earning lawyer made about $5.27 million last year, a filing by the London-based firm’s limited liability partnership shows. That compares to earnings of about $4.31 million for the firm’s highest-paid partner the previous year, according…

Feb 2, 2010 7:39 PM CST

Judge’s Footnoted Netiquette Rules Address Confrontation, Exclamation Points

Judge Gerald Lebovits has some opinions about the propriety of exclamation points and emoticons in e-mails. But don’t take his word for it. In an article first published in the New York State Bar Association Journal, the New York housing court judge uses 60 footnotes to back up his his…

Feb 2, 2010 3:47 PM CST

Ambrogi Leaves Legal Blog Watch, His ‘Greatest Gig’ as a Writer

A second lawyer-blogger has left Legal Blog Watch. Robert Ambrogi wrote in a farewell post at Legal Blog Watch that his four years at the blog were “the greatest gig I ever had as a writer.” But as the blogosphere expanded, the pressure of keeping up with coverage of other…

Feb 2, 2010 12:00 PM CST

6 Paul Hastings Real Estate Partners Join Growing Haynes and Boone

A six-partner real estate group has left Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker and joined Haynes and Boone in what their new firm trumpets in a press release today as a major expansion of its East Coast real estate practice. The new Haynes and Boone partners are: Kenneth Friedman, Robert Grados,…

Feb 1, 2010 7:46 PM CST

Winstead Revokes Offer 4 Days Before New Associate Was to Start Work

An incoming first-year was expecting to begin work today at Winstead. But on Thursday, four days before she was to start, the firm revoked her offer, reports the Tex Parte blog of Texas Lawyer. In a written statement, the 262-attorney Dallas-based firm cited the economy as the reason for the…

Feb 1, 2010 6:54 PM CST

Jones Day: NALP Plan for Delayed Job Offers Is Radical and Anticompetitive

One law firm has come out swinging in its critique of NALP’s call for delaying summer associate job offers. Jones Day was an early critic of the plan for an “offer kick-off day” in mid-January during students’ second year of law school. Now the law firm is offering more details…

Feb 1, 2010 6:07 PM CST

MoFo Surprised at Number of Staffers Retiring Early to Preserve Health Subsidies

Morrison & Foerster told a group of longtime staffers that they had a choice: They could retire before Jan. 31 and receive subsidized health care premiums, or they could wait—and give up the subsidy. The response surprised the law firm. About half the group opted for early retirement, the law…

Feb 1, 2010 5:20 PM CST

Paul Weiss Chairman Says 2009 Was the Most Profitable Ever

Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp is heralding his firm’s record partner profits last year—$2.69 million for each equity partner. Karp tells the American Lawyer that 2009 was “the most profitable year in our firm’s history,” despite a decline in gross revenue of 3.8 percent. The firm’s fourth quarter was the…

Feb 1, 2010 4:40 PM CST

Lexis Turns Up Heat on Legal Research Competition Today: Unveils Partnership with Microsoft

The competition for your legal research dollars just got a little more intense today as LexisNexis unveiled at LegalTech in New York its newest offering: a partnership with Microsoft. Lexis will now be integrated into Microsoft Office products, allowing users to do legal and general research directly while working in…

Feb 1, 2010 4:37 PM CST

Eight More White & Case Partners Jump to Latham

Eight more partners at White & Case are moving to Latham & Watkins offices in New York City; London; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Two of the lawyers who are going to Latham’s London office will join four others who already made the move there from…

Feb 1, 2010 4:00 PM CST

Wired!

The battle for your legal research dollars heats up.

Feb 1, 2010 10:50 AM CST

Just Like Everyone

Inclusiveness efforts seek to make GLBT lawyers—and all others—feel at home

Feb 1, 2010 10:40 AM CST

Grade Anxiety

Firms fret about clients rating their work

Feb 1, 2010 10:29 AM CST

Bloggy Eyes

Feb 1, 2010 10:10 AM CST

Holding a Mirror to the Profession

Our justice system should reflect the diversity of those seeking to break barriers

Feb 1, 2010 10:00 AM CST