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White & Case Adds Three Partners to Moscow Office

White & Case Adds Three Partners to Moscow Office

In recent days, global law firm White & Case LLP announced it has added three new partners to its Moscow office. They are Grigory Chernyshov, Jonathan Langley and Alexandra Schukina.…

Law Firm Has Elected Four Members

Law Firm Has Elected Four Members

The McDonald Hopkins law firm has announced that they have elected four members to work for their firm. These four lawyers will be added onto a team of over a…

Is Law School Worth the Fight?

Is Law School Worth the Fight?

Millions of students attend law school every year to only leave with thousands of dollars in debt. Michael Wallerstein is one of those students, but he is about $250,000 dollars…

White-Collar Criminal Defense Team

White-Collar Criminal Defense Team

Crime pays if you are a lawyer. The law breakers seem to suffer the same, but lawyers can benefit from representing those who commit crimes. Criminal defense is an important…

Just How Much Is a First-Year Lawyer Worth?

Just How Much Is a First-Year Lawyer Worth?

The message that corporate America is sending to the nation’s law firms is “class dismissed.” It’s a result of cost-slashing and the practice of passing along the cost of training…

Legal Work for Law Firms

Legal Work for Law Firms

Statistics from the HBR consulting press release have shown that from 2009 to 2010, law firm companies are spending more money on in-house legal work and less money on legal…

Law Firm Mergers at an All Time High

Law Firm Mergers at an All Time High

In just eight short months, law firm mergers have increased by 79 percent which means that law firm mergers are at an all time high. It is believed that the downward spiral of the economy may be the partial reason as to why the mergers have increased so drastically. The United States is currently dealing with one of the most devastating recessions of all time. In fact, most people and companies compare the current recession to The Great Depression which began in 1929. While law firms have merged together for years as a strategic move, many law firms are now merging with other law firms to works as one company instead of several individual companies as a means of survival during such a rough economy. A merger is typically designed to combine one or more companies together. When the two companies come together to merge, they must make a mutual agreement about the merge with one another. Because the economy has not improved over a period of time, many of the law firms in the United States have felt that it would be beneficial to merge together with other separate law firms as one. The principal of Altman Weil, Ward Bower, has said, ”During the recession and in the immediate aftermath of the recession, firms were in what I’m going to call a ’survival mode,’ not a strategy mode.” Some law firms use a merge as a means of strategy but because of the recession, it is likely that most firms are using it as a means of survival. He also said, ”Now that the economy has grown, they’re dusting off their strategies.” Since there has not been much change to the economy from 2010 to 2011, law firms are still doing what they can to continue to thrive and be successful. In Pennsylvania alone, six mergers have taken place from the months of January to September. Of those six mergers in Pennsylvania, four have taken place in the Philadelphia area. While many mergers have taken place in Philadelphia, there have not been any mergers in Pittsburgh thus far. Although Pittsburgh has not had any mergers within the past eight months, a legal recruiter in the city of Pittsburgh has claimed that many of the firms in the area are branching out. Some of the firms in the Pittsburgh area are even moving forward toward a possible merge. Many law firms will continue to merge their companies with others until the recession begins to get better which means that law firm mergers will continue to be at an all time high. While there has been a 79 percent increase in mergers within the past eight months, that percentage is expected to continue to increase within the next several months and in the following year of…

Two Prestigious Leaders Open Large Law Firm in Cincinnati

Two Prestigious Leaders Open Large Law Firm in Cincinnati

A former state senator and a former mayor are coming together to open up a large law firm office, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, in Cincinnati. While the law firm…

Lawyers Changing Firms to Develop Careers

Lawyers Changing Firms to Develop Careers

Timothy Nitsch was once an engineer before becoming an attorney at SNR Denton which is a reputable law firm. During his time at SNR Denton, Nitsch did not receive many…

Google + is Changing Corporate Legal Management

Google + is Changing Corporate Legal Management

Google+ (also sometimes written as Google Plus) is a fairly new social networking that was meant to be Google’s direct competition to other social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter,…