Stanford Law School has launched the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, which will focus on professional responsibility, leadership development and quality of life issues. Stanford law professor Deborah L.…
Washington DC law firm and lobbying group Arent Fox will freeze associate base compensation at the current 2008 rates for 2009. The firm will also place a 150-hour cap on…
Philadelphia’s Morgan Lewis & Bockius will adopt a merit-based bonus system for associates in 2009. The firm is doing away with its requirement that associates log 2,000 billable hours in…
Evan R. Chesler, a Presiding Partner at New York’s Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, has made a bold suggestion in January’s Forbes Magazine: Kill the billable hour. I’m a trial…
An interesting story at the DC Examiner, about the results of a study from the National Association for Law Placement: Female partners in DC law firms are taking part-time hours at…
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