LawFuel.com – Best Law Firm News & Marketing Service – The Skadden Fellowship Program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Launched to commemorate the firm’s 40th anniversary in 1988, the Program provides two-year fellowships to graduating law students and judicial clerks who are dedicating their careers to providing civil legal services to the poor. [wp_ad_camp_4] […]
Slaughter and May is a traditional, if highly successful law firm by any measure. But it is now looking to alter the way in which it provides career progression for its lawyers by shaking up the old ways of doing things. Slaughters recently introduced a merit-based aspect to the traditional lockstep promotion system for lawyers
Law firm management may not be exactly the fulcrum of innovation and entrepreneurism, but there are some managers who have nevertheless extended the reach and success of their brands, undertaking global expansion and embracing innovation. Law.com has looked at some of the innovators who have ‘reengineered the law firm’ and developed new ways to
NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2013 — LawFuel.com – The Law Firm Marketing & Newswire — Legal-Bay LLC, The Lawsuit Settlement Funding Company, had a record 2nd quarter funding attorneys and law firms in need of capital to assist with case cost funding, expert witnesses, cash flow for payroll, marketing expenses, and general working capital. Legal-Bay has been
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MANCHESTER, England, July 23, 2013 – LawFuel.com- The Best UK Law Firm Newswire Service The UK’s top 50 law firms spend over £3 million a year with public relations agencies – new research out today reveals. The research, carried out Legal News Service (LNS) also finds: Failing to inspire the confidence of the partners and
UK’S Top 50 Law Firms Spend Over £3 Million a Year With PR Agencies With Mixed Results Read More »
Women lawyers in the US account for only about 15 per cent of the total, according to the National Association of Women Lawyers – and for some firms it is well beneath that figure. Yet other firms are making strong progress in advancing women lawyers, such as Reed Smith, which employs 400 women lawyers worldwide
Women in Law – They Don’t Need to Commit “Career Suicide” Read More »
LawFuel.com – The Web’s Best Law Firm Newswire – Akin Gump is to restructure itself into an all-capital partner system in January 2014, following a reportedly intensive internal review of the global firm. The change will mean partners will be put on a multi-tier system that combines a combination of both guaranteed and variable remuneration
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An article from Julie Savarino, an attorney and owner of Business Development Inc and published by BloombergLaw, took a close look at lateral hires, the most favored strategy used by many law firms to increase market share and revenue. Julie Savarino advises many law firms on ways in which to generate greater growth. But the
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Clifford Chance may have suffered from a fall in partnership profits, but it hasn’t prevented the partners taking home £1 million each. Their profits are not quite what some of the Magic Circle firm’s rivals are making, with Linklaters partners taking more than £1.3 million in the financial year, and Freshfields partners taking home an
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Class action lawsuits are not the massive business in Australia as they are in the United States, but following the success of the world’s first public-listed law firm, Slater & Gordon, another Australian firm is now looking at expanding into the lucrative litigation market. Shine Lawyers, who use environment lawyer Erin Brokovich for their advertisements
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