Stephen Poor, chair of Seyfarth Shaw, has said that lawyers are 'notoriously bad listeners' and that the voices of leaders of law firms is 'conspicuously missing' in debates about the sector's road to change. | 11yrs
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Hundreds of Texas corporate clients have seen fees go up in 2015 - with three-year qualifieds often charging US$400 an hour and the senior lawyers regularly breaching the $1,000 mark. | 11yrs
Lawyers are being used by organised crime to hide and launder money - and often this happens without the legal practitioners being aware of the true purposes of their clients, according to a government report. | 11yrs
The 4,000 lawyer firm has set up a co-operation agreement with a local practice which will now operate under the name of DLA Piper Martinez Neira. | 11yrs
A weekly round-up of moves around the globe. | 11yrs
The firm has lost former German international board member Eva Reudelhuber - now at Gleiss Lutz - and Hong Kong capital markets partner Jon Gray - now joining Davis Polk. | 11yrs
To be known as Barclay Damon, the firm - made up of Hiscock & Barclay from Syracuse and Damon Morey of Buffalo - describes itself as a 'super-regional' practice and will become the largest law firm in the Northeast outside the major cities. | 11yrs
Allen & Overy is half way through its first year using a new bonus pool for top-performing partners and lateral hires - aimed at giving them more compensation in order to bind them in and protect them from offers from other firms. | 11yrs
Withers has increased its US practice by nearly a third in the last five weeks - taking on a new team in Greenwich, Connecticut before the latest move which adds another three California bases. | 11yrs
Ellen Pao is to appeal a decision on the sex discrimination she brought against her former employer, venture capital business Kleiner Perkins - in what is seen by her supporters as a campaign against widespread sexism in the US's main high-tech zone. | 11yrs
The six partners are being joined by a group of up to nine other lawyers - and will strengthen the three year-old Dallas office of McDermott Will & Emery in M&A, technology and outsourcing. | 11yrs
Sanford Wadler claims he was wrongly fired and is demanding damages as well as reinstatement. | 11yrs
The 140-lawyer Spanish practice Perez-Llorca is to open the office in Q4 - with the aim of advising its clients on Spanish law, rather than practising North American law. | 11yrs
A survey of CEOS and board members of publicly traded companies shows General Counsel are lauded for the value they add to the executive team, but also that only 40 per cent of companies have a formal GC succession plan in place. | 11yrs
The multinational company would not disclose the price of acquiring Universal Law Publishing but has plans to capitalise on its content. | 11yrs
The firm has taken on three partners in the region and promoted three others to partnership. | 11yrs
The 1,500-lawyer international firm has become the first legal practice in London to offer an 'articled apprenticeship' scheme - in tandem with the University of Law - to trainees who will study part-time and qualify in six years. | 11yrs
Litigation partners in other law firms will be following the case which, if won by plaintiff David Lola, could require them to pay overtime to contract lawyers involved in document review once they exceed the usual working week of 40 hours. | 11yrs
Michigan's largest law firm is seeking to develop a broad Chicago base as well as adding corporate and intellectual property capacity. | 11yrs
The YangTzejiang Legal Network of 40 law firms has set up a small office in the heart of legal London at Chancery Lane in order to introduce and advise Chinese clients coming to the UK and Europe. | 11yrs