There are many different and exciting ways to rank law firms. How prestigious are they? How much money are they making? How much do partners earn? How much are associates earning in cash compensation? How big are they? Yes, size matters, and because the legal profession is obsessed with every single measurable and quantifiable factor…
My entire character and fitness interview consisted of an attorney asking me, “Can you commingle funds?” After responding in the negative, he said, “congratulations,” and that was it. While perhaps more perfunctory than it should’ve been, it underscores the importance of keeping client funds separate from the lawyer funds and how this gets botched with…
Above the Law publishes an in-house compensation report every year, and it’s time to update our data for 2024. If you’re an in-house attorney, please take our brief survey. The results will contribute to our annual compensation report, which features multiple ways to benchmark in-house pay — such as geographic region, industry, type of organization,…
Back in June 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday, memorializing the end of slavery in the United States. Before that momentous occasion, in the wake of protests that swept the nation following the George Floyd murder, Biglaw firms raced to meet the moment, stepping up one by…
Research conducted collaboratively by Intead and F1 Hire shows universities could invest more into their careers services for international students The H-1B visa applicant-to-sponsor ratio is highest in unexpected states, including North Carolina and Michigan Some nine out of 10 jobs sponsoring the PERM visa are in technology – but only 1.6% of companies are…
Eugene Scalia Every lawyer — and increasingly civilians — in the United States knows that the jurisprudence coming out of the Fifth Circuit is an outlier from the rest of the federal judiciary. Even the right-leaning Supreme Court has been giving that circuit some side-eye. Now attorneys are advocates for their clients, and they’re supposed…
When litigation finance first burst onto the scene, I’ll admit to having doubts. On the one hand, without an influx of capital, the rising cost of litigation risked allowing deep-pocketed tortfeasors to price victims out of the process before they got their day in court. On the other hand, I wondered if these firms could…
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WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Jun 18, 2024 at 10:26 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Coming up: On Thursday, June 20 and Friday, June 21, the court expects to issue one or…
What do associates at major law firms care about more than money? Prestige, of course. But, at the end of the day, sometimes being a leader when it comes to compensation is enough to boost a firm’s prestige. As luck would have it, the closely watched Vault 100 rankings are here to remind lawyers at…