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  • December 12, 2013

    Kaye Scholer Tops Cravath With $80K Bonuses For Standouts

    Kaye Scholer LLP on Thursday announced associates would again receive bonuses of up to $80,000 this year, in excess of the $60,000 benchmark set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP. 

  • December 12, 2013

    5 BigLaw Attys Who Landed On Santa's Naughty List

    A few naughty lawyers can expect coal in their stockings this year, including a former Winston & Strawn LLP partner who helped Ponzi schemer Kenneth I. Starr launder money and a former Mayer Brown LLP partner convicted of aiding Refco Inc.’s $1 billion accounting scam.

  • December 12, 2013

    RE Cos. Going Farther For Returns Seek Firms With Reach

    An increasing need for higher returns has real estate developers and investors looking farther afield from their home bases, and as the industry becomes less “local,” law firms with a broader geographical reach are in high demand.

  • December 12, 2013

    Senate Confirms Obama's 2nd Pick To DC Circ.

    The U.S. Senate confirmed Cornelia T.L. “Nina” Pillard as a judge for the D.C. Circuit in an early Thursday morning vote, making her the second of three candidates picked by President Barack Obama for the powerful appellate court to be confirmed this week.

  • December 12, 2013

    Norton Rose Fulbright American MP Steps Down With Illness

    The head of Norton Rose Fulbright's U.S. operations has stepped down with health issues, the firm announced Thursday, and will be temporarily replaced by an interim lead.

  • December 12, 2013

    Female Associate Representation Falls For 4th Year: Survey

    Women for the fourth straight year occupied a shrinking portion of firm associate ranks in 2013 as minorities made modest but steady gains, according to an industry report released Tuesday, in what survey takers called a “historic shift” for the legal industry.

  • December 12, 2013

    Female Powerbrokers Q&A: White And Williams' Patti Santelle

    I am often the only woman at the table. At my firm, I am the only female department chair and one of only a few women at our departmental and practice group meetings. This needs to change, says Patricia Santelle, managing partner of White and Williams LLP, chairwoman of the firm's commercial litigation department and co-chairwoman of the firm's insurance coverage and bad faith group.

  • December 12, 2013

    Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Mayer Brown's Debora De Hoyos

    The demands on leaders at large law firms in 2013 are significant, but I don’t believe they are greater, or that there are special traps, for women, says Debora de Hoyos, global client relationship partner at Mayer Brown LLP.

  • December 12, 2013

    NY Appeals Court Will Hear Thelen, Seyfarth Fee Dispute

    The New York State Court of Appeals on Thursday said it would review questions raised by the Second Circuit connected to the Thelen LLP liquidating trustee's bid to recover fees earned by former partners from cases they brought to Seyfarth Shaw LLP when Thelen dissolved.

  • December 11, 2013

    Hogan Lovells Taps DC Litigator As Its Next CEO

    With Hogan Lovells leaders saying much of the "hard work" of an international integration is now behind them, the firm is set to move away from co-leadership and ratify a lone chief executive, the firm announced Wednesday.

  • December 11, 2013

    Boies Schiller Pays Out $300K Bonuses To Top Associates

    Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP again distinguished itself in BigLaw this week by paying out year-end associate bonuses that soared above the benchmark set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, a firm leader confirmed Wednesday.

  • December 11, 2013

    Quinn Emanuel Can't Shake Contract Atty's OT Action

    A New York federal judge said Wednesday that she would not toss a putative class action a lawyer brought over Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's alleged failure to pay overtime to temp attorneys, ruling that the lawyer might be entitled to extra pay.

  • December 11, 2013

    Weary Judges Urge Tort Attys To Rethink Longshot Motions

    Federal and state judges on Wednesday told attorneys representing drugmakers and medical device firms about their biggest pet peeves in personal injury litigation, saying too many motions related to discovery and expert testimony were wastes of time and outlining in animated fashion their ideal ways of choosing bellwether suits.

  • December 11, 2013

    NY Eyes Regs For 20% Of Commercial Cases To Be Mediated

    Legal experts continued the push Wednesday for new rules to streamline New York's heavily burdened commercial courts, proposing a "fairly conservative" mandatory mediation pilot program that would subject one in every five cases to the "underutilized" form of dispute resolution.

  • December 11, 2013

    Female Powerbrokers Q&A: Morrison Cohen's Danielle Lesser

    My advice to an aspiring female attorney is never to think of herself as a female attorney, says Danielle Lesser, co-chairwoman of Morrison Cohen LLP's business litigation department.

  • December 10, 2013

    GC Role In Biz Direction Drives Value, ACC Survey Says

    A new survey from the Association of Corporate Counsel that explores the changing role of the general counsel says that today’s evolving business environment will lead to general counsels taking on a more integral role in senior management in the future.

  • December 10, 2013

    Akerman's Sharpstein Found Dead In Miami Condo

    Miami Beach police are investigating a possible suicide after finding renowned white-collar defense attorney Richard Sharpstein of Akerman LLP dead in his home Tuesday morning, according to reports.

  • December 10, 2013

    Rising Philly Bar Chancellor Pushes 'Law Firm Laboratory'

    Incoming Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor William P. Fedullo announced at his inaugural address on Tuesday that the group would be launching a new program aimed at starting and nurturing new firms.

  • December 10, 2013

    Pa. Senate OKs Judge Jenkins For Superior Court Vacancy

    The Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday afternoon unanimously confirmed Gov. Tom Corbett’s nomination of Judge Patricia Jenkins, who has spent the last 20 years on the bench of the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, to fill an open seat on the state’s Superior Court.

  • December 10, 2013

    NJ Committee To Advance Law Firm Trade Name Changes

    The New Jersey Supreme Court is pushing ahead with the formation of a committee to help implement new standards allowing law firms in the state to use trade names, according to a notice posted Tuesday.