“There are some encouraging signs in hiring, compensation and partner profits at the nation’s biggest firms, but things may not be as good as they seem, Above the Law Editor-in-Chief David Lat tells Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia. David also gives…
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Browsing On A Sunday: SOPA, E-book Loaning, and the Billable Hour
15
Jan
The White House released a statement yesterday in opposition to filtering the Domain Name System as a response to Internet piracy. Three of the administration’s top technology and IP officers issues a lengthy statement on the White House web server…
Browsing On A Sunday: SOPA, E-book Loaning, and the Billable Hour
15
Jan
The White House released a statement yesterday in opposition to filtering the Domain Name System as a response to Internet piracy. Three of the administration’s top technology and IP officers issues a lengthy statement on the White House web server…
Thank God the World is Going to End on December 21, 2012: The Coming Deluge of Law Firm Blogs
26
Dec
Reporting in Watch Out: A Deluge of Legal Blogs is Approaching, Bob Ambrogi reviews some of the findings of a recently released survey of social media in the legal sector that was conducted by LexisNexis and Vizibility. Bob writes: Better…
Onshoring LPO Work Because Recent Law Grads Are Looking for Jobs, Any Sort of Jobs, Even Bottom Rung Jobs
16
Dec
In Ten for 2012: Top Ten Trends for Legal Outsourcing in 2012, Fronterion, an international consulting firm for outsourced legal services, identifies profitability squeeze on foreign LPO firms as one of the market dynamics that will impact the industry next…
What Do You Do When You Are Losing Customers? Thomson Reuters Buys the Competition
08
Dec
Back in September, UK-based Pilgrim Systems, a provider of law practice management solutions called LawSoft, announced Another Elite site goes live with Pilgrim’s Lawsoft, noting: As well as the functionality and quality of the LawSoft solution, the firms’ selection was…
Bonuses And Pro Bono Work Down Somewhat At Big Firms
29
Nov
How bad is it getting for the legal-industrial complex? The ripple effect of not enough jobs and clients balking at paying for new lawyer training now includes smaller end-of-year bonuses and a small decrease in pro bono hours. The Wall…
