Cleary Gottlieb announced that it would start naming nonequity partners, following several other top law firms that have started using this classification to retain top associate talent.
Several leading law firms have recently closed high-profile offices, highlighting that merely entering a hot legal market is not enough to ensure long-term success.
The U.S. legal services sector added 1,600 jobs in September, to reach 1,181,400 jobs, reversing a decreasing trend that began in the spring. The increase is largely due to strong financial performance in H1 and growing demand for legal services.
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About 52% of lawyers surveyed by Law 360 Pulse are satisfied with their total compensation, but the percentage increases to 74% among lawyers working at firms that practice pay transparency.
California has become the second state after Colorado to extend data privacy protections to brain waves after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 1223, amending the CCPA to define neural data as persona-sensitive information, effective immediately.
Kirkland & Ellis announced that it was that it was promoting exactly 200 attorneys to partner this year. The total is slightly less than last year's 205, making it the first time the class has decreased year-over-year in the last eight years.
Valve updated the Steam Subscriber Agreement, eliminating the mandatory arbitration clause and class-action waiver, now directing gamers to the courts instead.
Ross Intelligence failed to convince a federal judge that Thomson Reuters is forcing people to buy its Westlaw search tools in exchange for access to its caselaw database.
The pay gap between Big Law and Big Tech is narrowing, and lawyers for technology companies are increasingly migrating to law firms to capitalize on this trend.
The FTC announced Operation AI Comply, a crackdown on companies alleged to have used misleading marketing practices when making claims about their AI functionalities.
