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Just over three years ago, legal practice management provider Clio secured unicorn status with a $1.6B valuation. This morning, the company announced that a Series F investment round worth $900 million with a $3 billion valuation. Which, I believe places the company below maple syrup and ahead of Ryan Reynolds as driving the Canadian economy….
* Several law firms reject the current trend and continue to call their partners “partners” and their counsel “counsel.” BOLD! [American Lawyer] * CFTC whistleblower program faces financial peril. But then how will we ever know that the Duke brothers are planning to steal the orange juice report? [Bloomberg Law News] * On the heels…
We know—from working with our many tens of thousands of customers who rely on Clio everyday—that running a law firm has never been easy, especially without access to the right software. We started Clio with a vision to make running a law firm much easier, more lucrative for legal professionals, and more convenient for clients. …
It wasn’t long ago that Biglaw firms began flocking to Miami, Florida, where the only thing hotter than the sun is the area’s prospects as a stellar secondary market. With brick-and-mortar offices opening there left and right, last month, one of the Am Law 100 firms that opened up shop there in 2019 announced plans…
(Image via Getty) The practice of law hinges on established lawyers sharing with their junior associates. Tips, templates, you need those things to stand on the shoulders of giants. But there are some things that you really should keep to yourself — kicks, nudes, and one’s interest in sharing Nazi lore ranking highly on that…
Kamala Harris (Photo by NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. With news of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race, some Republicans are claiming he cannot be removed from the presidential ballot in November and in any case it is undemocratic to do so. The first…
(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Well, Joe Biden is out of the 2024 race for president. Dems have seemingly coalesced around Kamala Harris for the top of the ticket, leaving the political speculation to focus on who will be the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. There are plenty of qualified options out there, each bringing their…
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) After President Biden’s announcement yesterday that he is withdrawing from the presidential race, Democrats heaved a great sigh of relief at finally breaking out of the three-week-long news hellcycle. More than $50 million poured into Vice President Harris’s campaign coffers. Senator Joe Manchin spent seventeen minutes pretending that there was…
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Jonathan Turley says the darnedest things. And while we could fill several pages critiquing his reliably nugatory legal analysis, we’re not even going to go there today. Instead we ask: Why is Turley’s work consistently riddled with egregious factual errors and why are none of his editors even attempting a…
J.D. Vance (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) J.D. Vance has said that, if he had been vice president in 2020, he would have thrown the election into the House of Representatives. Vance would have requested multiple slates of electors from the states and had Congress decide which slates were legitimate. Congress would thus have chosen…