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“The reality is, we can’t leave it to others to take care of that and assume there’s going to be a broad market in five years’ time. We want to herald lawyers into the profession and give them the skills they need to succeed in the practice of law,” says Connell Foley’s Molly Hurley Kellett. […]

General counsel compensation is rising partly because companies want their legal chief to have a slate of skills that is difficult to find in one person, according to a new report from Equilar.        

Law firm leaders point to private equity deals related to home service installation, pest-control roll-ups, software companies and car washes that have generated work lately.        

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.        

Arnall Golden Gregory often asks its paralegals and legal assistants to assist in marketing and business development efforts, said marketing director Lisa Vicine.        

Law firms’ international expansion efforts are sometimes part of a bigger strategy that reveals how they are positioning themselves, writes the Global Lawyer.        

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston and Federal Defender Jodi Halim Linker said they found mentorship that shaped the trajectory of their careers at small firms during an event Thursday featuring women jurists of the Northern District of California.        

In an age of new technologies, Scott Milner, the new global head and practice group leader of the Morgan Lewis’ e-data practice group, sees a need to revisit some older e-discovery principles, such as ESI protocols.        

“Basically, Jordan’s system required the employees to pay for their own hourly labor. And then once they had earned sufficient draw to cover that time, which Jordan’s would take out of their earned commissions, Jordan’s would pay them whatever commissions were left,” Sutton’s counsel, Brant Casavant, of Fair Work in Boston, explained to the justices […]

Morrison & Foerster agreed not to use membership in a historically underrepresented group among its criteria for a diversity fellowship.