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WHO REMEMBERS FINLEY KUMBLE?
“I just don’t see the need to cram two firms with around a thousand lawyers [each] together. It made no sense,” one Akin partner reportedly told the National Law Journal shortly after the collapse of...
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Are You Worth $5 Million?
The Wall Street Journal’s front page reported that litigator Jamie Wareham “will make about $5 million a year, a significant raise from his pay at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, where he...
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UGLINESS INSIDE THE AM LAW 100 – PART 2
Part I of this series considered the possibility that a key metric — average partner profits — has lost much of its value in describing anything meaningful about big law firms. In eat-what-you-kill...
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THE BINGHAM CASE STUDY — PART I
“For the first time since I’ve been in this job, we have all the pieces we need to do our job.” That was former Bingham McCutchen chairman Jay Zimmerman’s penultimate line in the September 2011 Harvard...
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King & Wood Mallesons was never really a law firm. For starters, it was a verein — a structure that allowed three distinct firms to create a branding opportunity — King & Wood in China,...
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