Lawyers and support staffers at Weil, Gotshal & Manges got a first-hand lesson about “the new normal” on Monday, delivered in an email from executive partner and chairman Barry Wolf.
Washington & Lee University Law School’s decision to emphasize practical skills in the 3L year and subsequent enrollment surge was called the “biggest…
More corporate legal departments are cutting costs through greater use of nontraditional legal service providers and boosting in-house capabilities, the Association of Corporate Counsel reported this week.
Under pressure from federal regulators, who are concerned about lax cybersecurity at law firms, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch has begun conducting audits on the law firms it does…
Every year, BTI Consulting surveys corporate counsel to determine their top priorities. For the past six years (2006-2012), the top goal was to control legal costs. In the lawyer lexicon,…