Lawyer Compensation - Law Firm | News

Steptoe Offers Associates New Flexible Billable Hour Tracks in Revamped Comp System

By Abigail Adcox

Steptoe's revamped associate compensation model, which takes effect in January, will have three full-time billable hour budget options for associates with coinciding compensation scales. Read More

Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline | News

HSF Leadership Removes Partner Over ‘Deeply Offensive' Tweets

By Jack Womack and Christopher Niesche

Herbert Smith Freehills voted to remove partner Damien Hazard over a tweet targeting a Jewish lawyer amid a synagogue arson investigation. Read More

Law Firm Hiring | News

Law Firms' 'Failed Hires' Expected to Climb as Lateral Hiring Ramps Up

By Andrew Maloney

There's a "high likelihood" of an increase in departures from recently hired lateral equity partners, industry analysts say. Read More

Legal Technology | News

How Kirkland Has 'Reinvented a Meaningful Aspect' of Funds Work

By Andrew Maloney

“The Kirkland investment funds group is the size of many Am Law firms in its own right, and we've fundamentally reinvented a meaningful aspect of the work the group does, James Desjardins said. Read More

Consumer Protection | News

Trump Names FTC Chair Who's Been Thorn in Side of Lina Khan

By Chris O'Malley

President Donald Trump said Andrew Ferguson "has a proven record of standing up to Big Tech censorship. and protecting Freedom of Speech in our Great Country." Read More

Criminal Law

Suspected Shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Is Charged With Murder in New York. Now What?

By Emily Saul

Former veteran prosecutor and law professor Gary Galperin lays out the road map for getting Luigi Mangione, chief suspect in the shooting death of Brian Thompson, back to Manhattan to face murder charges following his arrest in Pennsylvania. Mangione is fighting extradition. Read More