“I give Kevin Broyles and James Fisher full credit for having this vision when they started in 2002,” said Grant Walsh, who left FisherBroyles a decade ago to co-found Culhane Meadows, another distributed firm.        

The command-and-control style of management is present in many law firms—and while it may arguably have worked in the past, it’s become increasingly ineffective as motivation, expectations and tolerance of associates have evolved.        

“I think we expected the large rubrics,” said Shannon Yavorsky, head of Orrick’s global cyber privacy and data innovation practice. “What I didn’t expect was the level of detail around some of the carve-outs and the broad, broad definitions that are drawn in.”        

In a Tuesday motion, Johnson & Johnson said that Beasley Allen principal Andy Birchfield had struck an alliance with one of its former lawyers, James Conlan, at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath.        

The verdict marks the fifth consecutive trial win for Roundup plaintiffs in the last month and a half.        

“Allowing the[c]ounty to forsake its duty because Mr. Batton acted in a manner that the jail was required to protect him from is ‘unsupportable from a policy perspective,’” the opinion said. “Anything short of requiring a jail to protect its inmates from a reasonably foreseeable self-injury would render a jail’s duty meaningless.”        

“Some clients are super loyal to their firms that they work with, sometimes blindingly so,” said Joan MacLeod Heminway, a University of Tennessee law professor.        

Ulmer & Berne LLP and Greensfelder Hemker & Gale will be merging, effective Feb. 1, 2024. The new firm, UB Greensfelder, will have an estimated 275 attorneys across nine offices and an annual gross revenue of approximately $150 million, according to leaders.        

His attorney said Wexler tried to work from home, but when he tried to participate in a hearing, “his kids were knocking on the door the entire time. He couldn’t focus.”        

The firm recruited another group of former clerks who worked with Republican-nominated judges on the U.S. Supreme Court.