Legal.io Newsletter - October 8, 2021

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Legal.io Newsletter - October 8, 2021

News

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Experience Outage - Earlier this week, the FB-owned social media apps experienced a massive global outage for several hours. More here

PwC Offers U.S. Employees FT Remote Work - Last week, the accounting and consulting firm announced it would allow all of its 40k U.S. client services employees remote working conditions in perpetuity. More here

Michelman & Robinson, a Los Angeles-based midsize law firm, announced a new associate salary scale starting at $230,000, outpacing BigLaw’s latest pay rate for first years. More here

UK Firms Launch Legal Ops Training Program - CMS UK, Dentons, Norton Rose Fulbright, Herbert Smith Freehills, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May jointly launched a program designed to accelerate a pipeline of junior talent trained in legal operations. More here.

Konexo + LikeZero - Konexo, the ALSP side of Eversheds Sutherland has created an alliance with LikeZero, a contract analytics company (from PwC), in order to increase the accuracy of derivatives data used by financial institutions. More here

Sandra Day O'Connor PBS Documentary - Named "Sandra Day O'Connor: The First", the "American Experience" series is a biographical piece on the former Supreme Court Justice. More here.

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