International law firm Holland & Knight announced in recent days that the firm’s Public Policy & Regulation Group will eliminate the tracking of billable hours for fixed fee clients,…
A study from Robert Half Legal reveals 25 percent of in-house counsel surveyed plan to decrease its work with outside firms in the next 12 months and 61 percent expect…
Local success story and Greenberg Traurig partner Mark J. McCombs has been charged with stealing more than $1 million in tax increment funds by billing Calumet Park, a suburb in…
At the start of 2009 Arnold & Porter announced that it was freezing salaries but held out the hope that some or all of the difference might be paid out…
Kramer Levin is paying bonuses mid February and they are based on the Cravath scale. To be eligible for a Cravath sized bonus, an associate must have met certain billable…
Quin Emanuel is making its naughty and nice list. Those who were naughty are getting a lump of coal, and those that were nice are getting a bonus – in…
First a little background: Hogan & Hartson pays associates on a two tier system, where associates can choose to receive higher base salary but with a higher billable hours requirement,…
I have a mental image of two giants staring each other down inside a locked steel cage before charging at one another, swinging leather briefcases and throwing blackberrys. In this…
Allen Matkins is having a rough year. Back at the end of March the firm let some attorneys go. First year associate salaries were cut, along with the salaries of…
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