Category Archives for Changing Legal Landscape

Skadden Partners Jump on the Start-Up Law Firm Bandwagon: More cracks in the BigLaw biz model?

March 20, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Top Story

Two Skadden partners, Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes, announced to the firm’s associates that they’re jumping ship to form their own law firm, BuckleySandler. Sandler assured

So all these laid-off lawyers are going to … D.C.?

March 13, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape

According to an article on today’s law.com site, as laid-off lawyers are scrambling for jobs many are considering other practice areas, other locations, in-house jobs and jobs with smaller firms.

Contract attorneys and the changing legal landscape

February 13, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Primers Top Story
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Last night’s and this morning’s lead story in the legal media: 800 law firm jobs lost in one day. And there will be more firings to come (click here for a sample). For the contract

It’s official: Twitter has de-throned “electronic discovery” as the most buzzworthy term at LegalTech

February 3, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Primers LegalTech NY February 2009

While the ratio of EDD vendors at the show is still extremely high, much of the talk surrounding the show revolves around Twitter and its uses and implications for lawyers. The Monday afternoon panel,

The billable hour and contract attorneys

January 30, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape

Today’s New York Times has an article featuring Evan Chesler, presiding partner at Cravath, Swain & MooreLawyers, who chats … once again …. about getting rid of the billable hour.

E-discovery vendor revamps pricing, contract attorney work in Europe, webinars, and more

January 22, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Market: Trends Electronic Discovery Europe
/ 2 COMMENTS

A bit of a mixed bag today: E-discovery Kazeon Systems has rolled out a range of pricing plans for its e-discovery products, hoping to entice customers amid lean economic times with one plan aimed at

Sharp climb in governments across globe regulating mergers, acquisitions

January 14, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Europe Mergers/Competition/Investigations

A record 115 countries and government entities across the globe are regulating mergers and acquisitions, a 69% spike from the 68 jurisdictions that monitored mergers five years ago, according to a new

Cravath’s Presiding Partner Says “Time to Kill the Billable Hour”

January 7, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape
/ 4 COMMENTS

As we have reported in various articles on our web site, we have seen a changing legal landscape this past year. One of the major discussion points has been on law firm billing practices and the

Axiom Opens in Washington, Bucks Big Law Traditions

December 12, 2008
/ Changing Legal Landscape
/ 1 COMMENT

From: The BLT: The Blog of the Legal Times, December 11, 2008 There’s a new law office on 24th St. N.W. and M St. in Washington, DC, but you won’t find any partners roaming the halls. There

Will M&As Skate Through the DOJ Now?

November 11, 2008
/ Changing Legal Landscape
/ 2 COMMENTS

From: NYT DealBook, November 11, 2008 While history might indicate that antitrust hurdles may higher under a Democratic president, this is unlikely to be the case in Barack Obama’s presidency, Andrew

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