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Winston & Strawn will provide reduced-cost legal services for routine tasks under Winston Legal Solutions umbrella

Winston & Strawn is offering its clients a lower-cost alternative to outsourced legal services that uses attorneys trained by the law firm for more routine legal tasks.

Apr 4, 2024 2:48 PM CDT

Which BigLaw firms are increasing lateral associate hiring the most? One made legal headlines last year

As a whole, BigLaw firms have reduced lateral hiring of associates over the last two years, a phenomenon documented in a report by the National Association for Law Placement.

Apr 4, 2024 11:24 AM CDT

Weekly performance meetings in glass room visible to others were retaliatory, plaintiff says in suit against Morgan Lewis

A Black patent prosecution specialist born in 1962 alleges that Morgan, Lewis & Bockius gave better opportunities to white, younger co-workers and retaliated when she complained by holding weekly performance meetings in a glass-walled conference room visible to colleagues.

Apr 1, 2024 3:37 PM CDT

This BigLaw firm surpasses $7B in revenue, but that’s not metric being watched by many firms

The nation’s top grossing law firm has crossed the $7 billion line. Kirkland & Ellis had $7.208 billion in gross revenue for 2023, a 10.6% increase.

Mar 27, 2024 8:36 AM CDT

Lewis Brisbois accused of failing to recognize ‘draconian lending terms,’ conspiring to cover up mistakes

A lawsuit accuses Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith of conspiring to deflect blame for its failure to protect 185 Chinese investors who lost $92.5 million that they invested in a hotel and condominium project through an investment group called CMB Export.

Mar 26, 2024 1:08 PM CDT

New Reed Smith pay structure sorts associates into ‘the A squad and the B squad,’ blog says

Updated: Reed Smith has confirmed that it is changing the compensation structure for associates, but it’s not getting into specifics after a leaked memo said the law firm was creating two tiers of associate pay based on billable hours.

Mar 26, 2024 9:53 AM CDT

Baker McKenzie partner sues IRS for documents on partnership audit strategies

A lawsuit filed by a Baker McKenzie tax partner is seeking to compel the Internal Revenue Service to disclose documents about its tougher policies for auditing partnerships, other pass-through entities and their owners.

Mar 20, 2024 2:10 PM CDT

Citing racist email remarks by supervisors, lawyer sues Lewis Brisbois for alleged racial and disability bias

Updated: A former lawyer at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith alleges that the law firm essentially forced him to resign after he suffered health complications from surgery by docking part of his pay, diverting most of his cases, converting him to a contract partner, and threatening to end his health benefits.

Mar 20, 2024 1:31 PM CDT

BigLaw firm confirms employee layoffs for second time in a year

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has laid off about 50 staff members in the United States and the United Kingdom, with most of the cuts occurring in business services.

Mar 18, 2024 12:00 PM CDT

Blank Rome tried to exact financial ruin because lawyer switched sides in airline litigation, her suit alleges

A lawyer in Dunnellon, Florida, has filed a lawsuit alleging that attorneys at Blank Rome filed an “utterly baseless” suit against her in a bid to exact financial ruin, destroy her reputation and send a warning to lawyers who switch sides in litigation involving its aviation clients.

Mar 6, 2024 12:00 PM CST

Fourth BigLaw firm closes office in China

Perkins Coie is closing its Shanghai office while emphasizing that it remains committed to its China practice and clients.

Mar 6, 2024 8:16 AM CST

As law firm office space shrinks, natural light is in and ‘capacious’ corner offices are gone

Law firms moving to new offices are often saving on space, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they will save money, according to a story in the New York Times on the BigLaw office market.

Feb 29, 2024 9:06 AM CST

BigLaw firm gets benchslapped for downplaying university deception in appellate brief’s facts section

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher went too far when it used the facts section of an appellate brief to present “a one-sided narrative" that downplayed adverse findings against its client, according to an appeals court.

Feb 28, 2024 11:31 AM CST

Texas justice complains that ‘brainwashed’ GOP colleagues from BigLaw ‘bow down to the altar of process’

Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine complained in a September speech to voters that his colleagues from BigLaw worry too much about “standing, timeliness or whatever else,” according to a recording of his remarks obtained by the Texas Tribune.

Feb 28, 2024 9:18 AM CST

Suit accuses Sullivan & Cromwell of employing ‘creative but misleading strategies’ that aided FTX fraud

A proposed class action lawsuit filed by investors in cryptocurrency exchange FTX accuses Sullivan & Cromwell of aiding and abetting fraud by providing legal services that went “well beyond” usual legal work.

Feb 20, 2024 4:00 PM CST

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